Jewish Family Adventures

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Jewish Family Adventures
Welcome to a journey with your family into living
Jewishly an introduction for parents and
children and others interested in a brief
overview of some of the key concepts and
activities for creating a Jewish life. In this
user friendly presentation you will find The
structure of the Jewish day, week and
year Ethical concepts for everyday living New
ways to celebrate holidays Songs, recipes,
practices and activity sheets Resources. So
venture into an adventure of worship, study and
changing the world and learn!
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Journey into Judaism
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Living Jewishly

• Overviewour goal is to provide a compact,
  accessible set of suggestions for Jewish
  parenting
• Overview of developmentin the first 3 years
  children move from experiencing through the
  senses, acting on things to learn, to
  representation and learning concepts.

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Development in the First Three Years

• Sensorytaste, smell, see, hear, feel
• Actionmanipulate, experiment
• Conceptuallanguage and thought

• Invest their feelings
• Engage their energy
• Adventure into Judaism!

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General Jewish Concepts

• Tikkun Olamrepair the world
• Tzedakahmake things right by giving to others
• Mitzvahstrictly speaking these are commandments,
  but the more general use of the term is those
  things we do to help others
• Shalommake life peaceful
• Shalom habayitcreate peace in the home
• Shemirat haadamahtake care of our earth
• Bal tashhitmake good use of everything
• Tzaar baalei hayyimtake care of animals
• Teshuvahreconciliation, returning and turning
  ourselves to the best and most compassionate we
  can be

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Make a Mitzvah Poster
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The Family Meeting

• Tzedakah councilreviews requests for tzedakah
  (an excellent opportunity to educate) and
  allocates a share of the family income to
  worthy projects
• Mitzvah councildiscusses a mitzvah, e.g. Bal
  tashhitdo not waste, and implements a change in
  the home
• Tikkun Olam councilcommits to an activity to
  make the world more just

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Daily Living

• Naaseh venishma Jewish parenting means that what
  we hear and learn we live and do.
• Blessings Foods
• Morning prayers
• Special occurrences such as seeing a rainbow
• Holidays

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Make a Food Blessing Chart

• Bread
• Wine
• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Biblical foods
• Foods from grain
• Other

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Examples of Other Blessings

• On seeing the wonders of nature
• Blessed are Thou, Lord our God, King of the
  universe, who creates the universe.

• On seeing a rainbow Blessed art Thou, Lord our
  God, King of the universe, who remembers the
  covenant and keeps His promise faithfully.

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Time and Space

• The weekly calendarmake Shabbat special
• The cycle of the yearmark the cycle and
  relationship (for examplePassover (freedom) to
  Sukkah (journey) to Shavuot (Torah)-- of the
  holidays
• The daily schedulemake each day a blessing
• Objects in the homemake the home a temple

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Shabbat

• Use all your senses
• Prepare special foods to smell and taste
• Light the glowing candles
• Smell the havdalah spices (Save your etrog to dot
  with cloves and use an a spice box.)
• Listen as you sing beautiful songs and read
  stories

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Ma Yafeh Hayom (How Beautiful Is The Day)

• (C) Mah yafeh hayom( Dm)
• Shabbat (G) Shalom (C)
• ( Am) Ma yafeh hayom (Dm)
• Shabbat (G) shalom (C)
• (C) Shabbat, shabbat shalom (Dm)
• (G) Shabbat shabbat shalom (C)
• (Am) Shabbat shabbat shalom (Dm)
• ( G) Shabbat shalom (C).

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Sources for enrichment

• Sing
• DanceMake up a simple circle dance or dance
  holding your child
• Taste
• Smellcollect herbs, dry fruits and flowers,
  decorate a plastic jar to make a havdalah box
• Feelbuy frozen dough and knead challah
• Cooklet your child stir, pour, measure, roll and
  help prepare the Shabbat meal
• Havdalahmake or buy a braided candle for
  havdalah
• Read a Jewish book

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Fall holidays

• Rosh Hashanahbake a round challah, dip apples in
  honey, make new years cards
• Yom Kippurparticipate in a break-the-fast, make
  a special white challah cloth
• Make a sukkuh diorama
• Build a sukkuh with sides of sheets and boards
  standing in cinder blocks
• Buy an etrog and lulav
• Make a gingerbread sukkuh (The Jewish Holiday
  Cookbook by G.K. Greene)
• Make an ushpizin poster and welcome historical
  and biblical guests into your Sukkuh
• Volunteer with the Food Bank or Habitat for
  Humanity
• Simchat Torahmake a flag for the hakafot parade

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Shanah Tovah
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Ushpizin
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Hakafot Flag
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Add to the Joy

• Stories
• TeshuvahWe can heal the tears our missteps make
  and return to our best selves
• BuildWhen we build a fragile sukkuh we remember
  that things are ephemeral but our Jewish values
  are eternal we commit ourselves to food and
  shelter for those who lack.
• Sing Dancewith the Torah for Simchat Torah
• Study

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Im Building a Sukkuh

• Im building a sukkuh, my hammer never stops
• La didi bimbam chirichiri bam.
• Oh bring me a nail and Ill reach the very top
• La didi bimbam chirichiri bam,
• La didi bimbam bam!

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Winter Holidays

• Hanukkah
• TuBshevat
• Purim

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Make a Hanukkah Card
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Latkes

• Grate and drain 5 medium potatoes and a large
  onion.
• Add 2 beaten large eggs, 2T flour and 1t baking
  powder.
• Fry in vegetable oil until golden on both sides.
• You can find recipes for cheese/rice, ricotta and
  buckwheat latkes in The Jewish Holiday Cookbook
  (G. K. Greene) and substitute or add carrots or
  zucchini to the potatoes.

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Celebrate!

• Menorah
• Dreydel
• Fingerplays
• Food
• Tree seder
• Shaloch manos
• Greggar
• Puppets
• Hamentashen
• Matanot Laevyonim

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I Have a Little Dreydel

• I have a little dreydel.
• I made it out of clay.
• And when its dry and ready
• Oh, dreydel I shall play!
• Oh, dreydel, dreydel, dreydel
• I made it out of clay.
• Oh, dreydel, dreydel, dreydelOh dreydel come and
  play!

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Carob Halvah for TuBshevat

• Mix ¼ c each tahina and honey.
• Chop and blend ½ c each coconut flakes, wheat
  germ and sunflower seeds.
• Combine all with 2T carob powder , ½ t cinnamon
  and walnuts to taste.
• Knead and shape.

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Celebrate TuBshevat by eating fruits
representing the kabalistic aspects of
lifeassiyah --(nuts and other foods hard inside
and outside), yetzirah(fruits with pits inside
but soft outside like dates), and beriah(fruits
soft throughout like bananas .)

• Assiyah action, the physical world, outside
  shell
• Yetzirah formation, the ideal, pits inside
• Beriah creation, wholly edible

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Hamantashchen

• Combine 8oz. cream cheese, 1c butter, 2 c flour
  and ¼ c powdered sugar and chill.
• Cut dough into 26 pieces and roll into balls.
• Roll each ball into a round, fill with Solo
  filling and pinch up 3 sides to form triangles.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.

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Purims Here

• Purims here, Purim cheer, tis a holiday so
  dear
• Masks and song,--sing along, --greggars loud and
  clear.
• Here go the greggarsrash, rash, rash, (3x)
• Purim time is here!

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Spring Holidays

• Passover
• Omer and Maimouna
• Lag Bomer
• Israeli Independence Day
• Shavuot

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From Passover to Shavuot

• Seder
• Plate
• Haggadah
• Matzah
• Omer calendar
• Picnic or barbecue for Yom HaAtzmaut and Lag
  Bomer
• Roses and paper cuttings

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Try some new recipes!

• Let your child help you make haroset,
  mustachados, minas (all recipes from The Jewish
  Holiday Cookbook, G.K. Greene) for Passover.
• Make pita, humus, falafel for Yom Ha'atzmaut.
• Barbecue shashlik for Lag Bomer.
• Make soutlach for Shavuot.

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Sephardic Haroset

• Cover 1 lb raisins and 8 oz. dates with 2 c water
  and soak for an hour.
• Add ¼ c sugar and process until blended.
• Add 1/c pecans and simmer _at_ 20 minutes.
• Add the Sephardic custom of walking around the
  seder table carrying the matzah on your shoulder,
  to involve the children!

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Mustachado

• Mix egg, 6 oz walnuts, ½ c sugar and 1/4t
  cinnamon.
• Roll into 24 balls.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes.

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Have a Maimouna

• Maimouna is a chametz party when Passover ends
  to eat all the foods traditionally forbidden
  during Passover.
• This Moroccan holiday recalling the Rambam
  (Maimonides) involves a feast including warm,
  fresh bread and butter, donuts, couscous, a bowl
  of flour with gold rings, a live goldfish on the
  table, ears of corn and dried fruits stuffed with
  marzipan colored with food coloring.

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Make an Omer Calendar
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Chag Sameach

• Rosesdecorations of roses are traditional for
  Shavuot.
• A Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (midnight Torah study) can
  be adapted for children with a bedtime Torah
  story.
• Paper cuttingsIt is traditional to make paper
  cuttings of flowers, Torah, Ten Commandments and
  fruit.

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Rememberit takes a congregation to raise a
mensch!