February 6, 2014 ט ז שבט תשע ה פרשת יתרו MIAMI CANDLE LIGHTING 5:49pm Pg 3 NO SCHOOL Pg 5 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6 Pg 2 RABBI YOSSI HEBER TEACHERS INSTITUTE
Community Announcements KIDS FOR KOSHER FOOD BANK F or the month of February the specific food items requested are Purim Hamentashen, raisins, Ziploc bags, and grape juice. Keep in mind that all the food must be either OU, Chaf-K, O-K, or Star-K certified, making it suitable for any family. Thank you for your continued help. Yasher Koach! T o Mr. and Mrs. Benyomin Richmond and family on the birth of a son. T o Rabbi and Mrs. Zvi Rosenbaum and family on the birth of a grandson, born to their daughter, our alumna, Shira and Aryeh Berkowitz. T o Rabbi and Mrs. Eliezer Rubin and family on the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, our alumna, Hadassa Rochel to Moshe Stein of Milwaukee. LOST AND FOUND P lease take time to search through our Lost and Found bins for your sweaters, sweatshirts, jackets, lunchboxes, and everything else! Our bins are filled to capacity and we will soon donate unclaimed items to the local Gemach. Att: Smart Phone Found on school campus. Please contact the girls office if you think it may be yours. Yitzchok Shmuel ben Pesha Sarah Yehuda Pinchas ben Osna Yochanan Baruch ben Frumma Etta Yisroel Mordechai ben Rivka Rochel Elchonon ben Rochel Leah Tichye Esther bas Minya Baila Chaya Rivka Rochel bas Bronna Mina Yehudis bas Masoudi Marsel Vital bas Miriam
PESACH CANDY SALE School Announcements GIRLS GALORE BRUNCH & MORE A ll orders should be turned in to the office by the deadline on Thursday, February 16. Please remember to return the top two pages of the order form in the envelope with the money collected. Check that all orders and tallies are correct, your child s name and grade is written clearly and that the amount collected corresponds with your order. Keep the bottom page in a safe place at home so you will know who to deliver the candy to when it arrives. CHESS CLUBS I n order to familiarize you with our new Chess Clubs, set to begin on March 1 & 2, there will be a presentation for girls on Sunday morning and another for boys on Monday afternoon. Please see the attached flyer for details. We are starting with offering this club to children in grades 1-3. The girls presentation Sunday morning will take place in the Science Room. The boys on Monday afternoon will take place in a classroom in the boys building. Call the office on Monday if you want your son to attend. Parents are more than welcome to attend these presentations. F irst and foremost, we want to thank Mrs. Chava Mann, our event chairperson, for her efforts to make this an event to remember for all the women and girls in attendance. Thank you to all the ladies who took part in this event, especially those who took time out of their busy schedules to get the raffle prizes: Murielle Avissar Raquel Benarroch Ruchama Yeshurun Shelly Masri Dana Tangir Karen Feldman And all those who helped set up, clean up and made sure we had everything we needed: Ruchama Yeshurun Murielle Avissar Karen Feldman Bryna Roth Elly Feldman Chava Mann Dana Tangir Sarah Kayla Anton Raquel Benarroch Denise Mann Abby Tangir Yasher Koach to our generous sponsors: Nechama Heller Lisa Farmer Sandra Getzel Darlene Bokor Thank you to Mrs. Esta Rosenberg for manning the door, Fresko (the Getzels) for the amazing food and Praline Pastries for making our morning so sweet. Last, but certainly not least, to our wonderful guest speaker, Mrs. Esther Anton, for her amazing presentation on the Power of Amen. We will think of her important message as we go through our day. We can t wait until next year! 2
Erev Erev Shabbos Parashas Yisro 5775 Dear Parents, Today s parents have a difficult time with the fifth commandment Honor your Father and Your Mother. (Shemos 20:12) That is not to say that there is anything necessarily deficient in the way they treat their own parents, rather today s challenge lies in parents properly training their own children to act respectfully and honorably toward them the children s parents. There are many reasons for this, and it behooves us to understand the root of the problem, to address it squarely and successfully. We first need to understand why it is important for children to honor and respect parents: 1) It is a Torah command. 2) Children and all people do well with clear limits and boundaries. A parent who is an effective authority figure in a child s life brings stability, confidence and security to that child s existence. 3) A long-term loving relationship is best served when parents and children have clearly delineated roles within the family and vis-à-vis each other. 4) For every mitzva bein adam lamakom, Hashem gave us also a mitzva bein adam lachaveiro. Children learn to show honor and kavod to Hashem through giving honor and kavod to their elders. So what s the problem? Why do so many children disregard their parents instructions and wishes? Why are so many parents reluctant to put their foot down and authoritatively redirect their children to appropriate behavior? I believe three factors stand out. We are unfortunately casualties of modern-day Western values and outlook. The modern perspective doesn t nurture self-esteem; as supposed descendants of apes, random outcomes of a random universe, we can t have much purpose or value. In our heart of hearts we feel who am I? that another human being needs to show honor and reverence to me? We parents think we are just regular people and we are downright uncomfortable demanding respect from our little ones. Another factor is that we live in a world of unchecked equality. The pendulum has swung so far from the days of princes and peasants that we have trouble asserting ourselves over 3 year olds!! Furthermore, the value of cultivating relationships has been so exaggerated out of proper proportion that other values such as truth, independence and fairness have taken a back seat. Today s parents will seemingly go to any length to preserve their relationship with their children. To cause one s child to be angry at the parent is, in their minds, jeopardizing the entire connection between parent and child and therefore to be avoided at all costs. Is it any wonder then that the proper chinuch for Kibud Av V Em is almost non-existent?
If we were to examine the three factors delineated above we would notice a common denominator they are each about the parent. The parent s feelings, the parent s fears and the parent s discomfort. This is the root of all failures in parenting. If one is concerned about how this affects me, how it impacts me, how it distresses me, then you ve left no space in your brain and heart for the question how does this impact on my child, how comfortable is this for my child, how important is this for my child. Paraphrasing Rav Simcha Wasserman zt l who was describing the factors that differentiate between a teacher or parent who succeeds or fails to effectively connect to a child: You can think about how you (the adult) feel or you can think about how I (the child) feel, but you can t do both at the same time. Obviously we must think about how the child truly feels. Even if they tantrum and outwardly express feelings of anger and resentment, their true, inner feelings are please be consistent, please project self-confidence in your rules, please act in my best long-term interests. This requires serious, honest introspection inside the inner chambers of your own heart. Is it possible you re too focused on how your children and their issues impact you and not focused enough on what does my child need? With this one change in mindset, parenting becomes a whole new opportunity for truly molding greatness within our own four walls, and for raising a generation of children who know how to properly fulfill the 5 th commandment. Best wishes for a Shabbos attuned to the word of Hashem, aware of our inner motivations and focused on the needs of our loved ones, Rabbi Kalman Baumann
TORAS EMES HAS A FIELD DAY! T oras Emes was jumping this week as the students enjoyed a fabulous Field Day on Wednesday in honor of Tu B Shvat. You will surely enjoy these pictures showing the students hard at play as they partook of the numerous events scheduled. Planting stations, table hockey, loony letters, obstacle courses, jump rope, target practice, and lots and lots of singing were just some of the fun activities. Additionally, delicious trays of luscious fruits were distributed to, and enjoyed by, the entire student body in honor of Tu B Shvat. Thank you to the Parents Association for providing these treats and especially to Mrs. Shifra Sharfman for purchasing and preparing the exquisite trays. Once again this year, Mrs. Sharfman eagerly volunteered to undertake this project and the results were (as always) spectacular and delicious! Yasher Koach to the entire Sharfman crew! OBSTACLE COURSE RED RELAY RECE RED HOCKEY BLUE LOONY LETTERS BLUE THEME SONG BLUE GRAND SING: EVERYONE!!
JUMP ROPE MARATHON RED OBSTACLE COURSE RED TARGET PRACTICE BLUE HOCKEY BLUE LOONY LETTERS BLUE THEME SONG EVERYONE!!
Fun Can you get through this mountain maze? Unscramble each of the clue words. Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number. פרשת יתרו page Can you get through this mountain maze? The winner for the Last Is: Shlomo Goldenberg Please come to the Girls office to claim your prize
What do you see?...chameleon or a leaf? Fun page What invention lets you look right through a wall? All correct answers to the challenge will be entered in a raffle to win a prize! The answer to last week s CHALLENGE is: An Egg פּ ר ש ת י ת רוֹ Which animals ת are mentioned עש ר ת in the?הד בּ רוֹת Last week s answer In, אז י ש יר there is a that begins פּ סוּק אמר אוֹי ב א ר דּ ף אשּׂ יג All five א חלּ ק וכו'. words begin with the א letter, )פּ ר ק ט"ו פּ סוּק ט'(
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