On this eighth night of Chanukah, I wanted to take an opportunity to wish you and your families a Chag Urim Sameach or Happy Festival of Light! I have just completed your students Fall Report Cards and am looking forward to sitting down with you on Wednesday, December 16 to discuss your student’s progress. Continue reading
Tag: Covenant
Revelation and the Covenant of Abraham
For the past few weeks, our 6th graders have been learning about the concepts of Holiness, Revelation and Covenant. We began by defining holiness, what it means to be holy. We performed a ‘scavenger hunt’ around the synagogue in search of holy objects and we discussed how a mundane object could be a holy object depending on its use and context. Continue reading