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Yitro

Yitro Word Search

Yitro the father in law of Moshe had seven daughters. The oldest one Tzipporah married Moshe and they had two boys. With Moshe leading the Jewish people out of Egypt towards Har Sinai it was now time for him to be together with his family once again.

And so Yitro arrives with his daughter and grandsons and gets a very grand welcome. He shows Moshe ways to take care of the Jewish people in a manner that won’t get him too tired and new ministers are appointed.

Hashem then tells the Jewish people to prepare for the most grand event in history - Matan Torah!

The Jews prepare for five days and on the sixth (or seventh) day they hear the ten commandments! Do you know any of them? How about keeping the Shabbos day holy and special? And honouring parents? What about not being jealous of our friends? Not always easy but it is something worth aiming for!

Hashem told the Jewish people very warm ideas before He gave us the greatest gift of all, the Torah.

The Torah has stayed with us throughout the years. Through learning it and keeping it, we stay connected to tens of generations before us. Let’s keep the flame alight! V L X L K D A Z J A F C

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COMMANDMENTS • COVENANT • FORTY • JUDGES • SHOFAR • SINAI • TREMBLE • YITRO

Tangram Challenge!

Using all the shapes on the left can you make the woman walking shape on the right?

Shabbos evening was a subdued affair for mishpachat Greengold.

“Ugh, I hate being stuck indoors,” moaned Chaim.

“We were meant to go to grandma’s for lunch and now we can’t even go there,” grumbled Hadassa.

Everyone was slouched on the couches feeling sorry for themselves.

“It’s all because of Yehudis. If only she hadn’t tested positive for Covid,” said Rivki, grumpily kicking her legs against the end of the couch.

Abba looked up from the dvar torah he was reading. “I know it’s hard kids, but we will make the best of it.”

“Why don’t we all daven together tomorrow morning? It will be so nice,” Ima interjected with a smile.

“That’s such a nice idea,” said Abba. “Now off to bed everyone. Goodnight and good shabbos.”

The next morning started with everybody getting dressed nice and early. Everyone was excited to join the family ‘shul’ in the dining room.

Ima had set out everyone’s siddurim round the table, and even Shloime had a pretend siddur on his high chair.

At 8am everyone was ready. Altogether they said modeh ani, adon olam and birchas hashachar out loud for the little ones to join in. Then, whilst everyone else carried on davening quietly, Ima took Yehudis, Rivki and Shloime out of the dining room and into the lounge to say Shema and Ani Maamin.

Once they had finished, Ima took out the duplo and started to help Rivki and Yehudis build a castle.

“Ima,” said Rivki. “Does Hashem like my davening?”

“Of course He does,” said Ima in surprise. “Why do you ask?”

“I davened for such a short time. Abba, Hadassa and Chaim are still davening and saying so much more than I did. I don’t think Hashem will like my prayers as much as theirs.” Ima put her arm around Rivki. “You are such a tzadekes for caring so much about your davening. But let me tell you something important. Davening is not about how long or how loud you daven, or even how much shockeling you do.”

Rivki laughed.

“It’s about how sincere you are,” continued Ima. “Hashem only really cares about what’s in your heart. If you are concentrating and really mean what you say, then Hashem will love your davening.”

Rivki sighed, “I like what you are saying Ima and I will try to concentrate, but sometimes I don’t know what the words mean. Or I want to say something specific to Hashem that isn’t in the davening that I have learnt.”

“Those are really good points,” said Ima. “Let’s take them one by one.”

“Firstly, one of the things you will learn as you get older is the meaning of the davening. You will learn it in school; and as your English reading and Hebrew translation gets better, you will understand more and more on your own.

Your second point is a really good one. It is very important to daven from the words in the siddur and we should do this every day. However, if you would like to say something to Hashem in your own words as well, this is also a good thing. The most important thing is that we concentrate and daven to Hashem with meaning.”

“Thank you for explaining it to me, Ima,” said Rivki, hugging her mother.

Just at that moment Yehudis and Shloime started crying for Ima’s attention.

“I think this noise won’t be good for everyone’s kavanah,” said Rivki thoughtfully. “Come Yehudis and Shloime,” encouraged Rivki as she started pulling out all the duplo bricks. “Let’s make the tallest tower ever together.”

“That’s my mitzva girl,” smiled Ima happily as she sat on the couch to finish her own davening.

Meaning Matters