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ANIMALS & TORAH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Bracha Workshop<\/h3>\n
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3 year old girl milking goat<\/p><\/div>\n

Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

How the Animal World provides us with “gifts,” and how we harvest those gifts without hurting the animals we care for.\u00a0 Activities may include: milk a goat, shear a sheep, feel the down on a duck, learn how to hypnotize a goose for down- gathering, pluck a molting Angora bunny, balance a peacock feather, and (in season) put baby birds down for a nap!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Her best day at nursery! —\u00a0<\/span>Chizuk Amuno Sunday School parent,\u00a0Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for hosting our Bet students for the Bracha Workshop. The students really enjoyed the opportunity to discover in a hands-on manner how we receive “gifts” from animals. They came back very excited about their experiences and especially their “souvenirs.”<\/span>
\n The workshop is a wonderful opportunity for the children to make tangible the significance and meaning of brachot, which they are studying in the classroom.\u00a0 We look forward to next year! —\u00a0<\/span>Berman-Lipavsky Religious School, Beth El Cong.,\u00a0Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n

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Pets Do Our Chores<\/h3>\n
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Meeting Eeyore Chamor<\/p><\/div>\n

Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

Mankind has been given animals to help us with our yard- and farm-work.\u00a0 Sheep are our lawn mowers; goats, our weed whackers. Ducks mow around young trees; geese feast on orchard weeds and guard ducks and hens from foxes.\u00a0 Guinea fowl eat bugs, including the deer ticks that cause Lyme disease, but not produce!\u00a0 Guinea fowl and peacocks keep our vineyard nearly Japanese-beetle-free.\u00a0 Donkeys stamp shut woodchuck holes and can protect sheep from dog attacks.\u00a0 Chickens clean our cholent and crock pots and turn our compost piles looking for worms.\u00a0 Meet our furry, feathery maintenance crew and learn how each species has its own special talents at keeping plant and bug life, as well as predators, in check.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You Are Noah! (Parashat Noach)<\/em><\/h3>\n
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4 year olds let doves sit on their hand and then fly off, just like Noah!<\/p><\/div>\n

Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn to recognize kosher signs (“clean” and “not clean”) on sheep and goats as we become Noah and wish to know which animals will enter the Ark 2 by 2 or 7 by 7. {Play a game with life-sized hoofprints of wild and tame kosher animals, learn about cud chewing and grazing patterns, and understand how split hooves and cud chewing can save a kosher animal’s life.\u00a0 If the donkey is requested, predict and then test who will win a carrot-eating race: \u00a0a cud-chewer or a non-cud-chewer!\u00a0 Examine kosher and non-kosher egg shapes and learn how a kosher bird sits!}<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, learn not only how to feed the animals (and then feed them, as Noah had to), but also how each animal sleeps, as we will need to find each a place in the Ark to go to sleep.\u00a0 In season, cuddle baby birds and learn to put them down for a nap!<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, watch a perching experiment with doves and quail to see why Noah sent out a dove. \u00a0Let a dove sit on your hand and fly off, just like Noah!<\/span><\/p>\n

Age 4: As above, but with less direct teaching.\u00a0<\/span>Age 3: \u00a0Feed and pet sheep and goats, stroke an Angora bunny, hold baby chicks (in season), visit doves, pet a duck’s back and tummy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Milk & Honey<\/h3>\n

Milk a goat and then make Kick the Can Land of Milk and Honey Ice Cream<\/span><\/p>\n

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“When I told my mother I had milked a goat just like my grandmother used to demonstrate on my fingers, she had tears in her eyes”\u00a0 \u00a0 Fundraiser<\/em><\/p>\n

“OMG! The ice cream was amazing! Life changing! Brought back childhood memories of the first time I had ice cream!”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Holistic Health Practitioner<\/em><\/p>\n

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Animals of the Torah (Bible) & Talmud (Chullin<\/em>)<\/h3>\n

Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

A Torah Zoo, with live exhibits of Torah and Talmud animals, including donkey, sheep, goats, doves, quail, peacocks, geese, and more; signs give background on each animal.\u00a0 Feed and pet select Torah animals.\u00a0 Tour<\/span> the animals and get answers to such questions as:<\/span><\/p>\n

Korbanot<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Which likeable but rebellious animal, singled out for use as a sin offering, can walk on its hind legs to get into trouble?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 How do you raise a petter rechem<\/em> (first-born male sheep, goat, or bull) born in your backyard?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindness to Animals, Hakarat Ha’Tov<\/em> (Recognizing the Good) & Other Jewish Values<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Who was the first person in the Torah (Bible) to make shelters for his flocks, and what name did he give the place?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which nonkosher animal has special status because of its Exodus help, and how much can it carry?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which line in Shema<\/em> reminds us to feed our animals before we eat?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 How can we learn good manners by not yoking a donkey and ox together?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which bird is a symbol of Shalom Bayit<\/em> (Peace in the Home) because the father helps sit on the eggs and raise their young?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kosher Anatomy<\/h4>\n

\u2022 If the forelegs and hind legs of kosher animals sit directly over the two halves of the split hoof, why don’t their legs unzip and fall apart?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which kosher animals have horns?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which horns can make a kosher shofar<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Bird Questions<\/h4>\n

\u2022 Which birds don’t require the mitzva<\/em> of shiluach ha’ken,<\/em> and which birds require shiluach ha’ken<\/em> at night but not during the day?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which bird, used by the metzora<\/em>\u00a0(ancient Israelite with a skin condition due to gossip or other lashon ha’ra<\/em>\u00a0) as part of his atonement, lives in a barn but doesn’t belong to the farmer?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 How does his song help remind us to refrain from gossip?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Why couldn’t Noah send forth a quail from the Ark?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Which bird did Shlomo Ha’Melech<\/em> (King Solomon) import from Ophir?<\/span><\/p>\n

Portions of this workshop are based on Maor L’Masechet Chullin U’vechorot<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you so much for all of your help with the Museum’s exhibition opening this past Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 With more than 400 people in attendance, the event was a success, and we were so pleased to see families having such a terrific time.\u00a0 The petting zoo was a tremendous hit with everyone.\u00a0 I am appreciative of all you did to make it happen.\u00a0 I look forward to working with you again. —\u00a0<\/span>Jewish Museum of Maryland,\u00a0<\/span>Baltimore<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for bringing your animals and doing your presentation as part of our Lamazal Tov family event on Sept. 7.\u00a0 I know parents and children alike enjoyed the interaction with the animals and your talk about the shofar.\u00a0 I hope we have opportunities to collaborate again in the future. — Center for Jewish Education,\u00a0Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n

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Living Shofars & Kosher Feet<\/h3>\n
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Child feeling living shofars<\/p><\/div>\n

Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

How can you tell a kosher animal? How do cud-chewing and split hooves help save a kosher animal’s life?\u00a0 Which kosher animals give kosher shofars, and why?\u00a0 How do goats and sheep have opposite personalities, and how does this this insight make listening to the shofar very special?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hands-on activities may include learning to feed sheep and goats, seeing split hooves and kosher mouths, feeling warm and cold parts of a live goat’s horn, and playing Shepherd and Shearer (learning sheep-calming skills and shearing a bit of wool from a live sheep).<\/span><\/p>\n

If donkey option is included, seeing comparisons of kosher vs non-kosher feet and mouths as well as a helping with a carrot-eating race between a kosher and a non-kosher animal to see differences in how they chew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hands-on props include 3-D hoof-prints of wild and tame kosher animals, including elk, antelope, and bison; cow hoof showing split; sheep and goat skulls highlighting teeth configuration of kosher mouths and hollow-forming bone within shofars; horns that don’t make kosher shofars, including cow horns and a 6-foot long elk antler, which can be picked up to feel its immense weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Living Shofars & Kosher Feet & Make Your Own Shofar<\/h3>\n

(Highly Recommended)<\/span><\/p>\n

Length: \u00a045 minutes for per group of 20 or fewer children and adults for Living Shofars; plus 15-minute snack break; plus 1 hour for Make Your Own Shofar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was just what we wanted! — Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School,\u00a0Potomac, MD<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for your excellent presentation at the Center for Jewish Education’s Abraham Guy Frost Shofar Blowing Institute….<\/span>Little Girl Goat was a perfect guest!\u00a0 Your explanations were clear, amusing, and a perfect segue for the morning’s program.\u00a0<\/span>I look forward to working with you and learning from you again next year! —\u00a0<\/span>Center for Jewish Education, B<\/span>altimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kindness to Animals<\/h3>\n
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Putting chick down for a nap<\/p><\/div>\n

All Ages<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Feed animals, learn how to handle animals gently, and review our Jewish roots that promote kindness to animals.\u00a0 What act of kindness was our forefather Jacob the first to do?\u00a0 How did Moses’ compassion for a lamb usher him into his role as Shepherd of the Children of Israel?\u00a0 How did David’s zeal in protecting his flock, unarmed, give him the skill to slay a giant and become a national hero?<\/span><\/p>\n

Which pasuk<\/em> in the Shema<\/em> reminds us to feed our animals before ourselves?\u00a0 Which pasuk<\/em> in the Kiddush<\/em> reminds us to let our animals rest on Shabbat?\u00a0 How can we prevent tza’ar baalei chayim<\/em> to animals that need to be milked or petted on Shabbat?\u00a0 Learn to pet and feed a variety of friendly animals, including sheep, goats, Angora rabbit, baby birds (in season). Can be done as an add-on to You Are Noah! or The Bracha Workshop for a small fee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CLOTH & TORAH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Sheep-to-Shawl:\u00a0<\/b>9 Melachot<\/em> of Cloth-Making<\/b><\/h3>\n

Ages 5 and up<\/p>\n

Based on books by Rabbi Baruch Chait, Rabbi P. Bodner,<\/strong> and Dayan I. Gukovitzki;<\/strong> lecture-demonstration\u00a0by Dayan Gukovitzki; and the annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Hands-on; in this workshop you will do:<\/p>\n

Gozeiz<\/em>\u2014<\/span>Shearing<\/h4>\n
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11th & 12th graders calming sheep\/shearing<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Calm a sheep.<\/li>\n
  • Shear wool without\u00a0hurting the sheep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Milabein<\/em>\u2014Washing<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • See an experiment of\u00a0Rashi\u2019s two types of\u00a0milabein<\/i>.<\/li>\n
    • Learn why fishermen\u00a0needed a special type\u00a0of milaben<\/i>.<\/li>\n
    • Learn a theory why, in\u00a0Rambam’s day, wool\u00a0was cleaned using\u00a0caustic chemicals\u00a0instead of like Rashi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Minapetz<\/em>\u2014Combing<\/h4>\n

      Comb wool with hand\u00a0cards.<\/p>\n

      \"TeenToveh<\/em>\u2014<\/span>Spinning<\/h4>\n
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      • Twist wool until it\u2019s so\u00a0strong it won\u2019t break.<\/li>\n
      • Learn what makes wool\u00a0so strong when twisted.<\/li>\n
      • Twirl a drop spindle to\u00a0spin roving into yarn.<\/li>\n
      • Watch wool get spun\u00a0on a spinning wheel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Tzovei’a<\/em>\u2014Dyeing<\/span><\/h4>\n
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        • Learn how the plant and\u00a0animal worlds differ in\u00a0their uses for plant and\u00a0animal fibers and dyes.<\/li>\n
        • Dye wool (if at Ptil\u00a0Tekhelet, see dyeing\u00a0with real\u00a0tekhelet<\/i>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Meisech<\/em>\u2014<\/span>Warping<\/h4>\n
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          • Set up a warp on a take-home\u00a0mini-loom.<\/li>\n
          • Learn how many meisech\u00a0<\/i>threads constitute the\u00a0melacha<\/em>\u2014and why!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Oseh Shtei Batei\u00a0Nirin<\/em>\u2014Setting Heddles<\/h4>\n
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            • See why most weaving\u00a0needs batei nirin.<\/i><\/li>\n
            • Use batei nirin <\/i>in next\u00a0step, oreig<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Oreig<\/em>\u2014<\/span>Weaving<\/h4>\n
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              5 year old weaving on loom<\/p><\/div>\n

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              • Learn how to weave the\u00a0length of the mishkan\u2019s p<\/i>arochet <\/i>(15\u2019-20\u2019 long)\u00a0in a 3\u2019 space.<\/li>\n
              • Learn how to throw a\u00a0boat shuttle.<\/li>\n
              • Learn how to switch\u00a0yarn colors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Potzei’a<\/em>\u2014<\/span>Cutting<\/h4>\n

                Learn how to remove\u00a0finished cloth on your\u00a0mini-loom.<\/p>\n

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                It was wonderful!\u00a0 I have a pre-1a boy–he came home so thrilled!\u00a0\u00a0Each year I ask my teachers about each program, “Is it really worth the cost?”\u00a0 Each year my teachers say about your program, “It’s worth a\u00a0million\u00a0dollars!”\u00a0 They say they have no other way to teach the boys these melachos so clearly.\u00a0<\/small><\/small>We always get a very overwhelming and very good report, so keep up the good work and we’re looking forward to next year! — Principal, Torah Institute Pre-School, Owings Mills, MD<\/small><\/small><\/span>
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                Thank you for bringing your wonderful program, “Sheep-to-Shawl,” to our school.\u00a0Both the 7th grade and the 8th grade thanked me for inviting you to come to the Yeshiva.\u00a0 Your presentation certainly made the topic come alive for the students.\u00a0 Several staff members mentioned that they felt you clarified various issues for them.\u00a0 I look forward to inviting you back again.\u00a0 Your insights from\u00a0Chumash,\u00a0Aishes Chayil, and other parts of\u00a0Tanach\u00a0helped make the subject very relevant for our young women.
                \nThank you again for your warm and thoughtful presentation and for your sense of humor.\u00a0 May\u00a0Hashem\u00a0continue to give you the\u00a0koach\u00a0and creativity to do your wonderful work. — Principal,\u00a0Yeshivah of Greater Washington,\u00a0Silver Spring, MD<\/p>\n

                Most positive educational experience — Rambam, Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n

                The children will look back on this day and remember it far better than the 8 mishnayos they could have memorized in the same period. –Torah School, Silver Spring, MD<\/p>\n

                I’m totally blown away with what you do….Kids are still talking about it 7 years later! — Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Rockville, MD<\/p>\n

                What my kids have seen and done here today is several concentric circles beyond anything they have ever experienced before — several standard deviations beyond anything they’ve ever been exposed to ln Manhattan. — Private Client Investment Associate, New York, NY<\/div>\n

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                Weave a Raised White-on-White Pattern for Cohen Clothing<\/h3>\n

                \u00a0<\/span>Best for ages 7 & up<\/p>\n

                The priests’ linen clothing may have been of undyed linen, but they weren’t plain (according to one opinion, the design was white diamond shapes inside of white squares!).\u00a0 Use a skip-pattern \u00a0technique to create a raised white-on-white sample. Finished size: 3 x 4.5 inches.\u00a0 Price includes yarn and cardboard loom, which you may keep and reuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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                Weave an Avnet<\/em> Belt\/Bookmark\/Border<\/h3>\n

                Best for ages 7 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

                The avnet<\/em> was a belt for the cohanim<\/em> (priests). Use a special loom to weave a sample belt or bookmark. Price includes yarn and use of looms during workshop, plus instructions on how to turn a tree branch or door knob into a working backstrap loom!<\/span><\/p>\n

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                Wool, Flax, Bugs & Snails: Tapestry-Weaving for the Mishkan<\/em><\/h3>\n

                Best for ages 7 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

                \"Feeling

                Feeling fluffy Angora bunny<\/p><\/div>\n

                Re-enact hands-on how the Children of Israel may have created beautiful Tabernacle tapestries in the Wilderness.\u00a0 Cut wool from a live sheep, spin wool into yarn, feel flax in the various stages of linen-making, learn about animal-derived dyes, ply 24-strand, 4-colored yarn & 28-strand, 5-colored yarn according to Rashi, weave cloth using Rashi’s “double-wall” technique.\u00a0 Spin and weave with tools like those pictured in Egyptian tombs.\u00a0 Imagine how Jewish women may have “spun the goats” (see Rashi on Shmot: 35:26) as a molting bunny sits quietly on our lap while we spin its loose wool into Angora yarn!<\/span><\/p>\n

                Portions of this workshop are based on Rashi: Shmos\/Exodus, by Rabbi YIZ Herczeg; The Torah Anthology<\/em>, by Meam Loez; The Living Torah<\/em>, by Rabbi A. Kaplan; \u00a0Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages,<\/em> by EJW Barber; and the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

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                METALS & TORAH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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                Metals of the Mishkan<\/em>: \u00a0Copper & Silver (Pewter)<\/h3>\n
                \"5

                5 year olds using metal punches on copper<\/p><\/div>\n

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/span><\/p>\n

                Using photos from The Tabernacle<\/em>, by Moshe Levine, learn some types of metal-working mentioned in the Torah.\u00a0 Shape and decorate copper using metal punches, wooden anvils and hammers, and wooden dapping blocks.\u00a0 Use sand-casting techniques to turn a silver-like pewter cube into a carrying ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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                Metals of the Mishkan: Iron<\/h3>\n

                Best for ages 7-11 (with help) & up<\/span><\/p>\n

                Using photos from The Tabernacle<\/em>, by Moshe Levine, learn some types of metal-working mentioned in the Torah, then work annealed iron by using real blacksmith tools to bend a 3-foot stainless steel rod into a dinner triangle. Feel how the metal gets hot at each bend<\/span><\/p>\n

                \u00a0by your shifting the molecules and creating heat. Make a clapper to ring your triangle.<\/span><\/p>\n

                You get to keep the triangle and clapper.<\/span><\/p>\n

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                Betzalel’s Workshop<\/h3>\n
                \"Melting

                Melting cubes of pewter into rings<\/p><\/div>\n

                Wool, Flax, Bugs & Snails: Tapestry-Weaving for the Mishkan, plus\u00a0Metals of the Mishkan: \u00a0Copper, Iron, Silver (Pewter)<\/h3>\n

                Length: \u00a03-3 1\/2 hours for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>\n

                [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Thank you for yesterday, it was a GREAT program.\u00a0 The kids really enjoyed it, they got a lot out of it, and I think the adults did too! —\u00a0<\/span>Beth Tfiloh High School,\u00a0<\/span>Baltimore, MD<\/span>
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                GEOLOGY & TORAH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

                Geology of Eretz Yisrael<\/h3>\n

                The Holy Land…seems to reach out its hand from the confines of the Mediterranean toward the heel of the Italian “boot,” Esav’s domain (Rashi on Bereishit 27:39)….–Rabbi Elie Munk, The Call of the Torah<\/em> vol 2: Genesis part 2, p 550 (Feldheim 1980)<\/p>\n

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                ASTRONOMY & TORAH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

                Astronomy of the Jewish Calendar<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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                ANIMALS & TORAH Bracha Workshop Best for ages 5 & up How the Animal World provides us with “gifts,” and how we harvest those gifts without hurting the animals we care for.\u00a0 Activities may include: milk a goat, shear a sheep, feel the down on a duck, learn how to hypnotize a goose for down- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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                Bracha Workshop<\/p>

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/p>

                How the Animal World provides us with \"gifts,\" and how we harvest those gifts without hurting the animals we care for.\u00a0 Activities may include: milk a goat, shear a sheep, feel the down on a duck, learn how to hypnotize a goose for down- gathering, pluck a molting Angora bunny, balance a peacock feather, and (in season) put baby birds down for a nap!<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults.<\/p>

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                Pets Do Our Chores<\/p>

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/p>

                Mankind has been given animals to help us with our yard- and farm-work.\u00a0 Sheep are our lawn mowers; goats, our weed whackers. Ducks mow around young trees; geese feast on orchard weeds and guard ducks and hens from foxes.\u00a0 Guinea fowl eat bugs, including the deer ticks that cause Lyme disease, but not produce!\u00a0 Guinea fowl and peacocks keep our vineyard nearly Japanese-beetle-free.\u00a0 Donkeys stamp shut woodchuck holes and can protect sheep from dog attacks.\u00a0 Chickens clean our cholent and crock pots and turn our compost piles looking for worms.\u00a0 Meet our furry, feathery maintenance crew and learn how each species has its own special talents at keeping plant and bug life, as well as predators, in check.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults.<\/p>

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                You Are Noah! (Parashat Noach)<\/p>

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/p>

                Learn to recognize kosher signs (\"clean\" and \"not clean\") on sheep and goats as we become Noah and wish to know which animals will enter the Ark 2 by 2 or 7 by 7. {Play a game with life-sized hoofprints of wild and tame kosher animals, learn about cud chewing and grazing patterns, and understand how split hooves and cud chewing can save a kosher animal's life.\u00a0 If the donkey is requested, predict and then test who will win a carrot-eating race: \u00a0a cud-chewer or a non-cud-chewer!\u00a0 Examine kosher and non-kosher egg shapes and learn how a kosher bird sits!}<\/p>

                \u00a0Next, learn not only how to feed the animals (and then feed them, as Noah had to), but also how each animal sleeps, as we will need to find each a place in the Ark to go to sleep.\u00a0 In season, cuddle baby birds and learn to put them down for a nap!<\/p>

                \u00a0Finally, watch a perching experiment with doves and quail to see why Noah sent out a dove. \u00a0{We may even be able to convince a dove to sit on a child's hand!}<\/p>

                Age 4 Version:As above, but with less direct teaching.\u00a0 Activities in brackets are omitted.<\/p>

                Age 3 Version: \u00a0Feed and pet sheep and goats, stroke an Angora bunny, hold baby chicks (in season), visit doves, pet a duck's back and tummy.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults.<\/p>

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                Animals of the Torah (Bible) & Talmud (Chullin)<\/p>

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/p>

                A Torah Zoo, with live exhibits of Torah and Talmud animals, including donkey, sheep, goats, doves, quail, peacocks, geese, and more; signs give background on each animal.\u00a0 Feed and pet select Torah animals.\u00a0 Tour the animals and get answers to such questions as:<\/p>

                Korbanot<\/p>

                \u2022 Which likeable but rebellious animal, singled out for use as a sin offering, can walk on its hind legs to get into trouble?<\/p>

                \u2022 How do you raise a petter rechem (first-born male sheep, goat, or bull) born in your backyard?<\/p>

                Kindness to Animals, Hakarat Hatov (Recognizing the Good) & Other Jewish Values<\/p>

                \u2022 Who was the first person in the Torah (Bible) to make shelters for his flocks, and what name did he give the place?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which nonkosher animal has special status because of its Exodus help, and how much can it carry?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which line in Shema reminds us to feed our animals before we eat?<\/p>

                \u2022 How can we learn good manners by not yoking a donkey and ox together?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which bird is a symbol of Shalom Bayit (Peace in the Home) because the father helps sit on the eggs and raise their young?<\/p>

                Kosher Anatomy<\/p>

                \u2022 If the forelegs and hind legs of kosher animals sit directly over the two halves of the split hoof, why don't their legs unzip and fall apart?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which kosher animals have horns?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which horns can make a kosher shofar?<\/p>

                Bird Questions<\/p>

                \u2022 Which birds don't require the mitzvah of shiluach ken, and which birds require shiluach haken at night but not during the day?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which bird, used by the metzorah (ancient Israelite with a skin condition due to gossip or other lashon harah ) as part of his atonement, lives in a barn but doesn't belong to the farmer?<\/p>

                \u2022 How does his song help remind us to refrain from gossip?<\/p>

                \u2022 Why couldn't Noah send forth a quail from the Ark?<\/p>

                \u2022 Which bird did Shlomo Hamelech (King Solomon) import from Ophir?<\/p>

                Portions of this workshop are based on Maor L'Masechet Chullin U'vechorot.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each tour group of 20 or fewer children and adults; children may tour the exhibits independently with teachers or parents.<\/p>

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                Living Shofars & Kosher Feet<\/p>

                Best for ages 5 & up<\/p>

                How can you tell a kosher animal? How do cud-chewing and split hooves help save a kosher animal's life?\u00a0 Which kosher animals give kosher shofars, and why?\u00a0 How do goats and sheep have opposite personalities, and how does this this insight make listening to the shofar very special?<\/p>

                Hands-on activities may include learning to feed sheep and goats, seeing split hooves and kosher mouths, feeling warm and cold parts of a live goat's horn, and playing Shepherd and Shearer (learning sheep-calming skills and shearing a bit of wool from a live sheep).<\/p>

                If donkey option is included, seeing comparisons of kosher vs non-kosher feet and mouths as well as a helping with a carrot-eating race between a kosher and a non-kosher animal to see differences in how they chew.<\/p>

                Hands-on props include 3-D hoof-prints of wild and tame kosher animals, including elk, antelope, and bison; cow hoof showing split; sheep and goat skulls highlighting teeth configuration of kosher mouths and hollow-forming bone within shofars; horns that don't make kosher shofars, including cow horns and a 6-foot long elk antler, which can be picked up to feel its immense weight.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults.<\/p>

                Living Shofars & Kosher Feet & Make Your Own Shofar<\/p>

                (Highly Recommended)<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for per group of 20 or fewer children and adults for Living Shofars; plus 15-minute snack break; plus 1 hour for Make Your Own Shofar.<\/p>

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                Kindness to Animals<\/p>

                All Ages<\/p>

                \u00a0Feed animals, learn how to handle animals gently, and review our Jewish roots that promote kindness to animals.\u00a0 What act of kindness was our forefather Jacob the first to do?\u00a0 How did Moses' compassion for a lamb usher him into his role as Shepherd of the Children of Israel?\u00a0 How did David's zeal in protecting his flock, unarmed, give him the skill to slay a giant and become a national her?<\/p>

                \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Which pasuk in the Shema reminds us to feed our animals before ourselves?\u00a0 Which pasuk in the Kiddush reminds us to let our animals rest on Shabbat?\u00a0 How can we prevent tzaar baalei chayim to animals that need to be milked or petted on Shabbat?\u00a0 Learn to pet and feed a variety of friendly animals, including sheep, goats, Angora rabbit, baby birds (in season). Can be done as an add-on to You Are Noah! or The Brachah Workshop for a small fee.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a020-45 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults.<\/p>

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                Weave a Raised White-on-White Pattern for Cohen Clothing (Twill)<\/p>

                Best for ages 7 & up<\/p>

                The priests' linen clothing may have been of undyed linen, but they weren't plain (according to one opinion, the design was white diamond shapes inside of white squares!).\u00a0 Use a skip-pattern \u00a0technique to create a raised white-on-white sample. Finished size: 3 x 4.5 inches.\u00a0 Price includes yarn and cardboard loom, which you may keep and reuse.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes-1hour for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>

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                Weave a Belt\/Bookmark\/Border \u00a0 (Inkle Loom\/Backstrap Loom)<\/p>

                Best for ages 7 & up<\/p>

                The avnet was a colorful belt for the cohanim (priests), likely woven on a narrow loom used for belts and cloth borders.\u00a0 Use an inkle loom or backstrap loom to weave a multicolored belt (or bookmark).\u00a0 Price includes yarn and use of looms during workshop, plus instructions on how to turn a tree branch or door knob into a working backstrap loom!<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes-1hour \u00a0for 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>

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                Wool, Flax, Bugs & Snails: Tapestry-Weaving for the Mishkan<\/p>

                Best for ages 7 & up<\/p>

                Re-enact hands-on how the Children of Israel may have created beautiful Tabernacle tapestries in the Wilderness.\u00a0 Cut wool from a live sheep, spin wool into yarn, feel flax in the various stages of linen-making, learn about animal-derived dyes, ply 24-strand, 4-colored yarn & 28-strand, 5-colored yarn according to Rashi, weave cloth using Rashi's \"double-wall\" technique.\u00a0 Spin and weave with tools like those pictured in Egyptian tombs.\u00a0 Imagine how Jewish women may have \"spun the goats\" (see Rashi on Shmot: 35:26) as a molting bunny sits quietly on our lap while we spin its loose wool into Angora yarn!<\/p>

                Portions of this workshop are based on Rashi: Shmos\/Exodus, by Rabbi YIZ Herczeg, The Torah Anthology, by Meam Loez, The Living Torah, by Rabbi A. Kaplan, \u00a0Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, by EJW Barber, and the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a01- 2 hours for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults, depending on depth of information desired.<\/p>

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                Metals of the Mishkan: \u00a0Copper & Silver (Pewter)<\/p>

                Using photos from The Tabernacle, by Moshe Levine, learn some types of metal-working mentioned in the Torah.\u00a0 Shape and decorate copper using metal punches, wooden anvils and hammers, and wooden dapping blocks.\u00a0 Use sand-casting techniques to turn a silver-like pewter cube into a carrying ring.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a045 minutes for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>

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                Metals of the Mishkan: Iron<\/p>

                Best for ages 7-11 (with help) & up<\/p>

                Using photos from The Tabernacle, by Moshe Levine, learn some types of metal-working mentioned in the Torah, then work annealed iron by using real blacksmith tools to bend a 3-foot stainless steel rod into a dinner triangle. Feel how the metal gets hot at each bend<\/p>

                \u00a0by your shifting the molecules and creating heat. Make a clapper to ring your triangle.<\/p>

                You get to keep the triangle and clapper.<\/p>

                Length: \u00a01 1\/2 hours for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>

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                Betzalel's Workshop<\/p>

                Wool, Flax, Bugs & Snails: Tapestry-Weaving for the Mishkan, plus<\/p>

                Metals of the Mishkan: \u00a0Copper, Iron, Silver (Pewter)<\/p>

                Length: \u00a03-3 1\/2 hours for each group of 20 or fewer children and adults<\/p>

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