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10, 5779 / October 19, 2018
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 5:49 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 6:47 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
MAZAL TOV RABBI YOSSI AND MORAH LEYEE ON BABY BOY Mazal Tov to them, to the baby’s siblings at Maimonides and to the whole Mishpocha on the birth of a baby boy on Wednesday night. Much nachas!
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MAZAL TOV KAUFMAN-BOMZER Mazal Tov to Yonina (Bomzer) and Shloime Kaufman on the birth of a baby girl. Mazal Tov to the grandparents Rabbi Moshe & Rebbetzin Bomzer.
This MC Newsletter is dedicated in loving memory of
Bluma Galperin
Yartzeit on Shabbos: Cheshvan 11 By her granddaughter Raizy & Mendel Rubin and family MOTHER HEROINE IN ISRAEL All of Israel is abuzz about the single mother from Beer Sheba who awoke at the siren and ran upstairs to get her kids out of bed into the safe room, and just in time: the rocket landed and exploded on the 2nd floor of their home where the children’s bedrooms were, and her quick thinking and quick action literally saved their lives. In Ivrit class with Morah Rivi, our students read in Hebrew parts of this “Yediot Achronot” newspaper article, which included a diagram of their home, the background of the rocket attacks against Israel and this woman’s alacrity and heroism. It tied back into what they learned in Ivrit last week how a lioness is especially protective of her cubs.
IS THIS MEZUZAH KOSHER? Rabbi Avraham Kelman showed 8th grade boys a series of Mezuzahs with different issues, ranging from rolled backwards to missing crowns, issues with letters etc, and discussed differences of lchatchila and bd’ieved, and how that traces back to differences in opinion amongst Rishonim, along other Halachos they learned about Kashrus of a Mezuzah & what scribes look for when they check them.
7TH CHESHVAN CORRECTION Avid newsletter readers noticed a mistake in last week’s edition when we wrote that on Zayin (7th of) Cheshvan “we switch to v’Tayn Tal uMatar” in the daily Amidah. That’s only true in Israel (and that makes this date significant in both practical and figurative ways), but in America we make that switch on December 4th. Thanks for your careful reading and bringing it to our attention!
“THE LITTLE HOUSE” BOOK Why did Rabbi Mendel bring in this old children’s book classic (from 1942) by Virginia Burton to the boys Talmud class? Because it connects to (and illustrates) both R’ Zeira’s explanation and Rava’s answer in Talmud Sukkah page 2a!
PJ LIBRARY: THE CRICKET AND THE ANT EXPLODING RAINBOWS In STEAM class last week these girls mixed baking soda, vinegar and food coloring to get these simultaneous bursting rainbows! It didn’t fit in last week’s MC, so here it is now.
This week’s PJ Library story hour at school was about a cricket and an ant each preparing for Shabbos. The best part was when Nursery kids starting sharing their recipes & instructions!