This week, we start a whole new sefer (book): Vayikra / Leviticus. The big focus this week is on the different types of korbanot / sacrifices: which kind, who, and what. Because this is the Shabbat before Rosh Hodesh Nissan, we also read Hachodesh (Exodus 12:1–20). This section reviews Jewish calendar (with Nissan as its …
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The plague of darkness (Bo/Passover)
In this week’s parsha (Bo), we get the last three of the ten plagues of Egypt. One of these is darkness-but not just darkness. It was a blackness so heavy the Egyptians couldn’t move anywhere! Here is what we did for the kids (similar to this.) We started by shaving and chopping dark colored crayons …
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