Tuesday July 20
Welcome back to Sugar Grove, PA!! This session we will be learning about The Oral Law in our Moshevet Torah shebe’al Peh -תורה שבעל פה , studying the years of our Tana’im (Rabbis of the Mishna) and Amora’im (Rabbis of the Gemara). The history and Torah we learn will be as memorable as the friendships […]
Sunday July 11
Shavua Tov! We had SUCH a beautiful, inspiring, fun Shabbat with hours and hours of singing and dancing! By the fourth shabbat, the chanichim know exactly what to do and when, and so they gave it their all. Davening Hallel together for Rosh Chodesh (and reading a double-parsha!) also made it special and memorable. The […]
Thursday July 8
After such a hard two days of color war, led by Eidah Daled chanichim, they were given a special trip today – white water rafting!! They left very early in the morning and had a great day! Today was one of our last days of tochnit this session, and we spent shiur learning about Chizkiyahu, […]
Wednesday July 7
Day Two of Color War: Navi vs. Melech (prophet vs. king) After the shiur about prophecy and the role of the prophet in our nation, we began our day of competition (friendly, of course, but fierce nontheless!) Chanichim are giving it their all, dressed in team colors and wearing face paint, they are volunteering to […]
Tuesday July 6
Report from the first day of Color War: Navi vs. Melech Today’s shiur was about the role of king, using Achav as our example. Tomorrow we will focus on the role of navi. Shiur is all about Torah learning and a time-out from the competition 🙂 After team meetings this morning, there were two rounds […]
Monday July 5
It has been so weird around here – the schedule is saying crazy things, like aruchat eser (10:00 am snack) at 4:00 pm and shekem (afternoon treat) at 10:00. Plugah and Mitbach have been starting up with each other about which is the more important anaf in camp, and everyone just knows it is going […]
Monday July 4
Our camp is living through the division of the Jewish people into two kingdoms, in a very real way. We have Malchut Yehuda (Eidot Bet and Gimmel) led by Rechavam, son of Shlomo. And we have Malchut Yisrael (Eidot Aleph, Vav and Daled), led by Yeravam We are feeling color war in the air, but […]
Thursday July 1
Today we learned about King Shlomo – his leadership, success and wisdom. We watched a skit before lunch about the moment Hashem said he could have anything….and he chose wisdom! We watched him carefully as he used it to solve the dilemma involving two women who each claimed a baby was theirs. The day was […]
Wednesday June 30
Happy Birthday to our director Yakov Fleischmann!! We spent Yakov’s birthday the way we knew he would enjoy…at the machane chutz 🙂 After the chanichim woke up this morning in camp, we had tefillah and a snack and then headed back out to the Chutz site to enjoy the day there. And we did!! We […]
Tuesday June 29
Today’s shiur was about King David’s sin (we kept it pg-13 and just said he wanted to marry someone’s else’s wife, so he had that man killed in war by placing him on the front line) and the role of the navi in keeping the ego of a king in check. We learned about the […]