Sunday, April 5, 2020
Passover Greetings
The Passover Seder
Family Seder
The Joyous Haggadah:
Please join this fun and engaging family friendly seder with Rabbi Weiss and Cantor Larry. Feel free to follow and sing along with the Joyous Haggadah. Chag Sameach!
Seder Songs
The Four Questions:
If you want to learn the Four Questions or sing along, here they are in Hebrew, Hebrew transliteration and English!
The Four Questions:
Allan Sull, Gail Gorenstein, Oren Fromberg, Adam Cines, Jess Migler and Lisa Goodman sing and say the Four Questions
Allan Sull, Gail Gorenstein, Oren Fromberg, Adam Cines, Jess Migler and Lisa Goodman sing and say the Four Questions
L’mata 3rd Grade teacher Shira Tassiello shows us the Four Questions in Sign Language, alongside L’mata 4th Grade Teacher Eden Golub. See if you can learn alongside the video!
Post a video on the Machane TBA Facebook page doing the Four Questions in Sign Language.
Ehad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One):
Towards the very end of the Seder there is a song called Ehad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One). It is a tricky song to learn because it is a cumulative song (one that builds on itself with each verse getting trickier and trickier). This song is super fun to sing with family and friends. It gets easier with practice which the L’mata team hasn’t had much time to do! Watch this silly video of us doing our best to sing this song with you for your seders at home!
Towards the very end of the Seder there is a song called Ehad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One). It is a tricky song to learn because it is a cumulative song (one that builds on itself with each verse getting trickier and trickier). This song is super fun to sing with family and friends. It gets easier with practice which the L’mata team hasn’t had much time to do! Watch this silly video of us doing our best to sing this song with you for your seders at home!
Passover Stories
One of our Beloved Gan Teachers, Mrs. Wernick, reads The Passover Mouse.
Bedikat Hametz:
L’mata Teacher Eden Golub shares the first part of her Seder, an awesome Dr. Seuss style poem about getting rid of Chametz.
L’mata Teacher Eden Golub shares the first part of her Seder, an awesome Dr. Seuss style poem about getting rid of Chametz.
Mrs. O’Connor, who is loved by students at both TBA and Rachel Carson Elementary School, reads A Passover Story: Matzah Ball.
After you watch Mrs. O’Connor’s video, do you think the prophet, Elijah, was really at the baseball game? Make sure to watch Elijah’s cup at your seder to see if he drinks any wine!
After you watch Mrs. O’Connor’s video, do you think the prophet, Elijah, was really at the baseball game? Make sure to watch Elijah’s cup at your seder to see if he drinks any wine!
Mrs. Weinstein is a good friend and a great teacher. Join her as she reads The Little Red Hen and the Passover
Matzah to learn a lesson about friendship!
Sit back and relax and listen to Mrs. Salomon telling us the story of Passover.
Check out this fun version of the Passover story through the eyes of kids just like you!
Passover T’filah
Passover Shira (Music)
Posted by Temple Beth Ami on Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Cantor Eschler Passover Music Singalong!
This Wednesday Cantor Eschler went LIVE on the Temple Beth Ami Facebook page. Check out some of the awesome songs and sing along from the comfort of your home!
Each Wednesday at 10:30am check out Cantor Eschler’s LIVE Facebook streams on the Temple Beth Ami Facebook page. Chag Sameach!
Uptown Passover:
Benny P’s edition of Six13’s Uptown Passover! Enjoy!
Benny P’s edition of Six13’s Uptown Passover! Enjoy!
A Lion King Passover:
One of the biggest Passover mitzvot is to retell the story of the Jewish people in Egypt. Finding new and fun ways to do that each year makes the Passover holiday one of our favorites.
Listen to this awesome Six13 song, a Lion King Passover. It was so fun when they came to Machane TBA!
One of the biggest Passover mitzvot is to retell the story of the Jewish people in Egypt. Finding new and fun ways to do that each year makes the Passover holiday one of our favorites.
Listen to this awesome Six13 song, a Lion King Passover. It was so fun when they came to Machane TBA!
Chugim (Activities)
Games
Bingo:
Looking for even more fun during the Seder? Download and print the attached Passover Bingo Card to play during the Seder. As you go through the Seder, mark off each action you have accomplished until the Bingo card is full!
If you want to play a traditional game of Passover Bingo, print out the cards to play at home and email them to family members so you can play long distance too!
Headbands:
Do you love the game Headbands? Never played and want to try something new? Check out the Passover Edition of the Headbands game. It walks you through step by step how to play at home.
*Hint: If making the headband itself is challenging or you don’t have all the materials, you can still play by holding the given headbands card on your forehead!
Art
The Seder Table:
Looking to decorate your Seder table? Print these Four Question place cards for your Seder! Each card has a different one of the Four Questions on it and a blank space to color and draw your own interpretation of the questions.
Make a Cup for Elijah:
Here’s how!
Make your own seder plate:
Its fun to make the table look special and different each year for Passover. Click the seder plate for directions on how to make your own seder plate at home! It’s fun and easy!
Make an Afikomen Cover/Pouch:
Put on your creative hat and get ready to make an Afikomen cover/pouch with Mrs. Treby! After watching the video, read the instructions below to make a matzah holder for your seder.
During the seder, we take 3 pieces of matzah and the host breaks the middle piece. Part of it, called the afikomen, can be put into your new pouch and hidden for the children to find during the seder. It’s a lot of fun! If you want to make something decorative to put all three pieces of matzah in you can follow the directions below.
Make a matzah holder:
Stack 4 sheets of construction or copy paper together. Have a grown up use a hole puncher or help you to punch holes around 3 sides. With a long piece of yarn, shoe lace, curling ribbon or string pull the string through the holes so the stack of paper can stay together. (You can also staple it around the edges, if you prefer.) Now you have a section for each of the 3 pieces of matzah. The center sleeve will be used for the middle matzah, which is the Afikomen! You can put the pouch you made with Mrs. Treby in there too! Decorate the front and back outside pages of your matzah holder with Passover pictures. You can write the word “matzah” too!
Share Your Seder Artwork:
Post pictures on our Machane TBA Facebook page of all of the beautiful artwork you have made for your Seder!
Cooking
Charoset:
Make an easy and delicious charoset for Passover with Mr. Rosenstock, Machane TBA Cooking Specialist. Here’s the recipe.
“Wherever you go, there’s always someone Jewish…” There are Jewish people all over the world this Passover making their own recipes for charoset. Just like Rabbi Pokras shows us at the beginning of the Machane TBA BaBayit page this week, trying new traditions from other parts of the world can be a lot of fun!
Check out these 22 new nut-free charoset recipes.
Post pictures on our Facebook page if you try a new recipe you really like! We can’t wait to hear about all the yummy new charoset everyone gets to try!
Matzah:
Here’s Mrs. Kotok’s Chocolate Toffee Matzah recipe that she told us about in her video!
You can buy matzah in the store or you can make your own! Enjoy making matzah making with Ms. Rosenblum.
Here’s how you do it:
1 cup of flour
3/4 cup water (not all to be used)
475 degree oven, preheated cookie sheet on top shelf.
Bake 2-3 minutes on each side.
3/4 cup water (not all to be used)
475 degree oven, preheated cookie sheet on top shelf.
Bake 2-3 minutes on each side.
Fun Activities
Moses and the Plagues:
Which plagues do you see in the picture? Do you remember how to say the Hebrew word for frog and what letter it starts with?
Passover Maze:
Here’s an Afikomen Hunt maze – Hopefully you will find the Afikomen at your seder! Make sure you watch the grown ups carefully!
What’s on Your Seder Plate?
Do you remember the names of all the items on the seder plate?
Chadshot Kids Corner:
Look for the Machane TBA pages (pages 9 & 10) in the April Chadashot online! There are photos from Machane TBA winter events and a Kids Corner Passover page!
Ask the Rabbi
We are working towards having a very special Ask the Rabbi session. We NEED your help! Take the next week and think about questions you would love the Rabbis to answer. It can be a question about Passover or another Jewish holiday, or a personal question like what their favorite food is. Email your questions to Elaine to be entered into a raffle.
If you win the raffle you will be featured on our video for the Ask the Rabbi!
Would you like to see the Machane TBA BaBayit pages from previous weeks, or for another grade level?
It’s all on the Machane TBA home page!