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Shabbat is the day to The soft glow of the According to the The custom of break out your best, , , two angels blessing children tastiest, and most which are lit near the accompany a person dates back to the beautiful. We dress in Shabbat table, adds to home from synagogue patriarch Jacob and our best clothes, serve the warmth and joy of on Friday night. The his blessing to his our tastiest food, and use Shabbat. song Shalom Aleichem grandchildren Ephraim our most beautiful welcomes these and Menashe. cup, cover, Use melted crayons or Shabbat angels. and candle. colored wax to beautify Write each person’s name plain white candles. Find Shalom Aleichem in on a little piece of paper, Bake chocolate chip your siddur and sing the fold them and put them challah (recipe at How do lit candles add to song. Share a poem, in a bowl. Take turns http://babaganewz.com) the atmosphere in the picture, or song about selecting a name and or rugelach (recipe at room? What could they peace with the class. giving a blessing to the http://babaganewz.com) symbolize? person chosen. Mention to make your Shabbat What would you like something wonderful extra tasty. the angels of peace to about each one. bring to your home? List five ways to make How can you help them? What blessing would you Shabbat different from other like to receive? days. S S habbat howtime in the classroom

Producer Preview Act I Libretto (God) Hamotzi Dinner Torah Talk Kiddush thmIN ¦ v © ,¨C©J ,sUg © x § v¨rI, hr§ ¥c¦s JUshe ¦ We make the We serve our The Torah is divided The Friday night Hamotzi blessing on finest foods on up into weekly portions blessing of Kiddush, two loaves of bread Shabbat in order to (parashat hashavua). said over a cup of because, in the fulfill the mitzvah of A different portion is or grape desert, God gave us oneg Shabbat read each Shabbat in juice, recounts how God a double portion of (Shabbat pleasure). synagogue. sanctified the seventh on Friday to last day, and includes a for Shabbat. There was no Share with the group Watch a video on blessing for wine and a manna collection allowed something nice about http://www.g-dcast.com/ blessing that thanks God for on Shabbat. the week that just ended about the portion of the week. giving us Shabbat. and something you look Report to the group about Write “Shabbat Shalom” forward to in the week what you’ve learned. Read the story of creation on a cloth napkin and to come. in Bereishit 1. Discuss how decorate it to use as a How many biblical people each of you is connected challah cover. How does eating lots of can you name? One person to a day of creation. delicious food add to names a biblical person. According to tradition, the special atmosphere The next person repeats the Why do we drink wine or manna tasted like of Shabbat? name and adds another. The grape juice at Kiddush? different foods to next person repeats the first What’s special about different people. What two names and adds a third, grapes? How does Kiddush would you want your manna and so on until you run out of sanctify Shabbat? to taste like? biblical names. S S habbat howtime in the classroom

Music Credits Comedy Act II (Bravo! Oneg Shabbat Shabbat Lunch ,Irhn§ ¦ z Thank you!) ,¨C©J d¤b«g ,¨C©J ,sUg © x § Birkat Hamazon Zemirot are iIz¨N©v ,©F§r¦C On Shabbat, we The second meal songs sung at the focus on what’s of Shabbat also Shabbat table. The source of Birkat really important in includes Kiddush, Hamazon is in the life—friends, family, Hamotzi, and a festive Find a song or Torah: “And you shall and God. meal followed by niggun (tune) at eat and be satisfied, Birkat Hamazon. http://babaganewz. and bless God your God Relax and enjoy com/music or for the good land which yourself by playing a fun Make “2” the theme for http://www.zemirot- God has given you” game like Bananagrams, lunch. Develop a menu that database.org/ and teach (Devarim 8:10). Taboo, Apples to Apples, includes two choices for it to the group. or charades. each course, two-toned Draw a poster with the food, “2”-shaped food, two How does singing make themes of Birkat How does define foods on one platter, and you feel? Hamazon. pleasure differently than two-inch square desserts. secular society? Discuss the difference Quiz yourself and others between thanking the about the number two in the Torah (for example, hosts or cooks for the ark animals, wives of meal and thanking God Jacob, walls of the sea, for the meal. mothers of Moshe, sets of tablets, etc.). S S habbat howtime in the classroom

Act III Curtain Seudah Havdalah Shlishit v¨kS§ ¨c©v v¨sUgx § ,hJh¦k ¦ J § Havdalah is the final act of Shabbat. We The third meal of bring out some of the Shabbat does not things with which include Kiddush, just we welcomed the day— Hamotzi, a meal, and grape juice/wine and Birkat Hamazon. The candlelight. As soon as feeling at this meal is Havdalah is finished, we reflective and spiritual. are ready to begin a new week. Shabbat is almost over. Write an acrostic poem Craft a besamim topiary about the approaching (instructions at end of Shabbat. http://babaganewz.com) to comfort your soul at Pretend you are the close of Shabbat. royalty. What foods would you eat? How did you use your senses during Shabbat? In what different ways will you use your senses during the next week?