Ma Koreh
Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary
Just as the whole Israelite community, young and old gathered at Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, our school community from Years K – 12 came together last Thursday to celebrate the Shavuot.
The MPH stage was transformed with our beautiful Aron Kodesh and decorated with student artwork, bikkurim (food donations) and greenery, reflecting the midrash that states Mount Sinai burst into bloom when the Torah was given. The stage was filled with student representatives holding our Sefer Torah and the special Aleph Bet scroll created by the students, reflecting the midrash that teaches every person Israel was present at Mount Sinai and heard the Torah in a way that made sense to them. We enjoyed singing songs together and a creative play about the letter Aleph (the first letter of the 10 Commandments)
To reflect the custom of eating dairy food on Shavuot and the sweetness of Torah, we all enjoyed delicious gelato and sorbet and recess.
- Years K-2 created art projects reflecting Shavuot themes – bikkurim baskets, Mount Sinai scene and paper flower garlands
- Year 3 created a paper mosaic of the two tablets, reading and translating the Aseret Hadibrot
- Year 4 heard the Torah’s account of the Mount Sinai experience and then created a ‘paper midrash’ to represent their understanding of what may have happened at Mount Sinai
- Year 5 explored the Book of Ruth and after ordering the story, illustrated their own comic book
- Year 6 solved puzzles and clues to identify the Aseret HaDibrot (The 10 Utterances/10 Commandments) and place them in their correct order. We then looked across the two tablets to explore any correlation or connection between the adjacent commandments
Our food donations were collected this week by Oz Harvest.
Todah Rabbah to everyone who contributed to the celebrations and the atmosphere of the day.