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This week we learned about the heroic Maccabbees.
Morah Tzivie told us the story of the unkind, mean ruler King Antiochus who told the Jewish people:
NO MORE SHABBAT
NO MORE MITZVAH
NO MORE LIGHTING THE MENORAH
NO READING AND STUDYING TORAH!
GIVE THANKS TO ME NOT HASHEM!
The king had his soldiers watch all the Jewish people to be sure they followed the new rules.
Clearly, this made the Jewish people sad, and afraid of the king's army.
Morah Tzivie explained how the Jewish people decided to continue to have Shabbat, to do mitzvahs, to light the menorah and give thanks to Hashem.
She told us how the Jewish people hid in caves to study the Torah, and be thankful to Hashem.
The caves provided a good, safe place for the Jewish people.
Tori, Levi and Noah hid in our "cave".
Morah Tzivie: Kian, can you see Tori? Levi? Noah?
Kian: No
Morah Tzivie: Dena can you?
Dena: No
Morah Tzivie: The caves were a good hiding place for the brave Jewish children to study the Torah.
We learned that the brave Jewish children tricked the Greek soldiers.
They studied the Torah, with a lookout.
When the lookout called to them that a soldier was coming, they would hide the Torah and play dreidel.
We aren't studying the Torah! We are just playing dreidel!
After hearing about the search for oil in the Holy Temple, and the excitement of finding one small jar, we went on an oil hunt!
Where is the oil?
We found it!
Hurray!
Since the children learned all about ancient Israel and the long process in which oil was made, and after watching in our own menorah how oil is naturally consumed by the flame, we really understood what a great miracle it was the oil lasted for 8 whole days.
We spun dreidels, and kept a record of how many times our dreidel landed on each letter.
We made banana pretzel menorah's for snack!
It may be fall but winter weather is here. We played with the frost frozen to our train and slide.
We made snow flakes.
We made snow flakes.
Our hands got cold, but it was fun to have a handful of "snow".
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