Tuesday July 5
Our Chutz was doing great through the night…and then right after the chanichim started waking up we felt a drizzle. We brought everyone back for tefilah, breakfast, shiur, some peulot, lunch, more peulot, shekem…and then rain seemed gone for good and we all went back out to our chutz site for another beautiful night and […]
Monday July 4
Kaytana, don’t leave : ( We will miss all of these cute chanichim who have been so happy here in camp with all the big kids! We hope to see them next year in Eidah Aleph! They spent their last day at their favorite peulot in camp and then packing. They learned about when Am […]
Sunday July 3
Shavua Tov!! We had a wonderful Shabbat, with the ruach even stronger than last week – the participation in all of the singing and dancing opportunities was close to 100%. We are so grateful to have Dr. Yael Ziegler with us for a few days this weekend. Dr. Ziegler is a well-known beloved Tanach teacher […]
Thursday June 30
Happy Birthday to our director Yakov Fleischmann!! Machal went on a 4 mile hike called Minister’s Creek which has a beautiful lookout they all really enjoyed. Tonight they had some indoor fun after the whole week outdoors – bowling and a trip to Walmart! Kaytana enjoyed a jam-packed day of COLOR WAR! Their teams were […]
Wednesday June 29
Everyone slept outside last night at their lina site – even Kaytana pulled it off!! They are officially real overnight campers 🙂 Machal really stepped it up last night, impressing their counselors with their ability to take charge in cooking dinner and working together to make it a fun, bonding, yummy night! They made really […]
Tuesday June 28
Today we learned about the rebuilding of the second Beit haMikdash and the 42,000+ Jews who returned with Ezra and Nechmia. The shiur was also about the idea of how Hashem works through political changes. The pasuk in Sefer Ezra tells us that “G-d stirred King Cyrus” into telling the Jewish people to go back […]
Monday June 27
Today’s shiur was about Daniel living in Bavel, making a kiddush Hashem, as he and his friends proclaimed the Jewish G-d as the one G-d and were the subject of miracles. He, like Yosef and Esther, rose in the ranks in the foreign governement and became a well-respected interpreter of dreams. The chanichim discussed life in […]
Sunday June 26
Today, our shiur was about the destruction of the first Beit HaMikdash in 586 BCE and the subsequent exile into Bavel. Chanichim learned about the different responses the Jews had to this catastrophe. Some mourned, some turned to avodah zara, and some began to hope and pray for a redemption. And then we learned Yechezkel’s […]
Shabbat Parshat Sh’lach
Sha-sha-shavua Tov 🙂 That is a cheer from around here…just trying to share the vibe! After a busy and sweaty Friday, with hikes for everyone – we settled into a fun Erev-Shabbat camp-wide mifkad, followed by a spirited, meaningful, inspiring Kabbalat Shabbat. One of THE favorite parts of camp (the other favorite is at the […]
Thursday June 23
Today we learned about King Yoshiyahu and his sense of religious mission as king. After finding a Torah scroll in the Beit HaMikdash, opened to the section that had rebuke for the nation, the king felt like G-d was hinting to him that they needed to repent and clean up the idol-worshipping going on! And […]