Shabbat Program
Religious School Grade Shabbats
Friday Kabbalat Service at 7:00 p.m. Each grade will be assigned a theme for its service, which will come from various different Jewish texts, each with a theme. Writing, art, and music will be integrated into each class service.
Religious School Programming: Religious School Grade Shabbat Themes
November 20, 2009: 7th Grade
A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven. A time for being born, and a time for dying; A time for planting and a time for uprooting the planted; A time for slaying and a time for healing; A time for tearing down and a time for building up; A time for weeping and a time for laughing; A time for wailing and a time for dancing; A time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, A time for embracing and a time for shunning embraces; A time for seeking and a time for losing, A time for keeping and a time for discarding; A time for ripping and a time for sewing, A time for silence and a time for speaking; A time for loving and a time for hating; A time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, verses 1 - 8
January 8, 2010: 6th Grade
Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel said to his servant Tabbai, "Go to the market and buy me some good food." The servant went and brought back a tongue. He told him, "Go out and bring me some bad food from the market." The servant went and brought back a tongue. The Rabbi said to him, "Why is it that when I said 'good food' you brought me a tongue, and when I said 'bad food' you also brought me a tongue?" He replied, "It is the source of good and evil. When it is good, there is nothing better; when it is evil, there is nothing worse." Leviticus Rabbah, chapter 33, section 1
January 16, 2010: 8th Grade
Havdallah Program
February 5, 2010: 5th Grade
Why is gossip like a three-pronged tongue? Because it kills three people: The person who says it, the person who listens to it, and the person about whom it is said. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Arakhin, page 15b
March 5, 2010: 4th Grade
When the people of Israel stood at Mount Sinai ready to receive the Torah, God said to them, "Bring me good securities to guarantee that you will keep it, and then I will give the Torah to you. They said, "Our ancestors will be our securities." God said to them, "I have faults to find with your ancestors...But bring me good securities and I will give it to you." They said, "King of the Universe, our prophets will be our securities." He replied, "I have faults to find with your prophets... Still, bring me good securities and I will give the Torah to you." They said to him, "Our children will be our securities." And God replied, "Indeed, these are good securities. For their sake, I will give you the Torah." Hence it is written: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have founded strength." (Psalms 8:3) Song of Songs Rabbah, Chapter 1, section 4
April 2, 2010: 3rd Grade
When God created the first man, he led him round all the trees of the Garden of Eden. God said to him, "See my works, how beautiful and praiseworthy they are. Everything I have created has been created for your sake. Think of this, and do not corrupt or destroy My world; for if you corrupt it, there will be no one to set it right after you." Ecclesiastes Rabbah, chapter 7, section 13
May 7, 2010: K, 1st & 2nd Grades
And God said, "I will make man in My image, after My likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole Earth, and all the creeping things that creep on Earth." And God created man in his image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them." Genesis Chapter 1, verses 26-27
