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Aims / Objectives :
Aims:
- To educate about where the Torah comes from and what Jews believe about it
- To explore the difference between the different interpretations of the authority of the Torah amongst the denominations of Judaism
- To learn about the history of the Jewish people (briefly!)

Trigger :
Trigger: (15 mins)
- The chanichim are asked to walk around and to imagine they are the different type of people that the leader will call out.
- ONE WEEK AGO
- PRIMARY SCHOOL
- NURSERY SCHOOL
- BABY
- INSIDE YOUR MUMMY’S TUMMY
- YOUR PARENTS
- YOUR PARENTS WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG
- YOUR GRANDPARENTS
- YOUR GRANDPARENTS WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN
- IN ISRAEL AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- JEW FLEEING FROM POLAND IN 1940’S
- JEW FLEEING FROM RUSSIA IN 1917
- LIVING HAPPILY IN GERMANY BEING A BANKER
- 1790 FARMING IN SWEDEN
- 1590 LIVING IN ITALY EATING PASTA
- 1516 GHETTO IN VENICE – FIRST IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE
- 1492 – EXPELLED FROM SPAIN
- 1430 – LIVING HAPPILY IN SPAIN FLAMINCO DANCING
- 1290 EXPELLED FROM ENGLAND
- 1250 PLAYING IN THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND IN ENGLAND
- 300 LIVING ON THE COAST IN ITALY SWIMMING
- 0 LIVING IN ISRAEL ON A DONKEY
- 72 DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE AND GO TO BABYLON
- ENTER ISRAEL FIGHT WITH TRIBES
- WANDER IN THE DESERT
- 1200 BCE SLAVES IN EGYPT RAMESES II
- ISRAEL WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
- FLOOD
- EDEN

Main part of the programme :
Method: (30mins)
- Think Labyrinth, we are now in the land before time, a few dinosaurs, not much else, tell the chanichim that the first ever Torah is going to be destroyed and that unless we can rescue it, history will not happen.
- There is a maze laid out of masking tape, there are 4 starting points, chanichim split into 4 teams and each start at a different end. They enter the maze and stop when they get to a madrich. They must perform a task to go further into the maze.

- TASK 1
- Get them to name the 5 books of Moses and one story that happens in that book and act it. (help them if they are stuck)
e.g: Genesis – Eden/flood/Abraham/Jacob/Joseph
Exodus – Moses/the plagues/Sinai/Decalogue/golden calf
Leviticus – Dietry laws/festival days
Numbers – Kippot/Balaam/lunar calendar
Deauteronomy – The Shema/Holy days/Moses’ death

- TASK 2
- Tell the group that the Torah is made up of Torah (Law) Ne’vi’im (Prophets) Ketuvim (writings)
- Everyone in the group has to memories what the Hebrew is and what they mean in English
- Explain that the laws help us to behave how God wants us to and help to create a nice society
- List the 10 commandments
- I "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me... .." .
- "Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
- "Thou shalt not swear falsely by the name of the LORD..."
- "Remember [zachor] the Sabbath day and keep it holy"
- ”Thou shalt honour your father and your mother..."
- "Thou shalt not murder"
- "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
- "Thou shalt not steal."
- "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor"
- "Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house.
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- TASK 3
- Look at the Torah blessings
- Look at the English and discuss why we say blessings when reading the Torah, (allow the discussion to last no more that 5 mins)
- Why don’t we for other books?
- Why is the Torah special?
- Get one of the Chanichim to read the one before and another for after.

- TASK 4

- Tell the chanichim about the importance of commentary and that the oral Torah has never stopped. Explain that they can also take part in the oral Torah

- Read it out, pausing after each verse and ask the chanichim what they think it means. Explain that this is the build up to the revelation of the Torah

- Try to ask controversial questions to get them debating.

- Think about the imagery and the characters involved

הֶעָנָן, בַּעֲבוּר יִשְׁמַע הָעָם בְּדַבְּרִי עִמָּךְ, וְגַם-בְּךָ יַאֲמִינוּ לְעוֹלָם; וַיַּגֵּד מֹשֶׁה אֶת-דִּבְרֵי הָעָם, אֶל-יְהוָה. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever.' And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
י וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵךְ אֶל-הָעָם, וְקִדַּשְׁתָּם הַיּוֹם וּמָחָר; וְכִבְּסוּ, שִׂמְלֹתָם. 10 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments,
יא וְהָיוּ נְכֹנִים, לַיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי: כִּי בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִשִׁי, יֵרֵד יְהוָה לְעֵינֵי כָל-הָעָם--עַל-הַר סִינָי. 11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
יב וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ אֶת-הָעָם סָבִיב לֵאמֹר, הִשָּׁמְרוּ לָכֶם עֲלוֹת בָּהָר וּנְגֹעַ בְּקָצֵהוּ: כָּל-הַנֹּגֵעַ בָּהָר, מוֹת יוּמָת. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death;
יג לֹא-תִגַּע בּוֹ יָד, כִּי-סָקוֹל יִסָּקֵל אוֹ-יָרֹה יִיָּרֶה--אִם-בְּהֵמָה אִם-אִישׁ, לֹא יִחְיֶה; בִּמְשֹׁךְ, הַיֹּבֵל, הֵמָּה, יַעֲלוּ בָהָר. 13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.'
יד וַיֵּרֶד מֹשֶׁה מִן-הָהָר, אֶל-הָעָם; וַיְקַדֵּשׁ, אֶת-הָעָם, וַיְכַבְּסוּ, שִׂמְלֹתָם. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments.
טו וַיֹּאמֶר, אֶל-הָעָם, הֱיוּ נְכֹנִים, לִשְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים: אַל-תִּגְּשׁוּ, אֶל-אִשָּׁה. 15 And he said unto the people: 'Be ready against the third day; come not near a woman.'
טז וַיְהִי בַיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בִּהְיֹת הַבֹּקֶר, וַיְהִי קֹלֹת וּבְרָקִים וְעָנָן כָּבֵד עַל-הָהָר, וְקֹל שֹׁפָר, חָזָק מְאֹד; וַיֶּחֱרַד כָּל-הָעָם, אֲשֶׁר בַּמַּחֲנֶה. 16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
יז וַיּוֹצֵא מֹשֶׁה אֶת-הָעָם לִקְרַאת הָאֱלֹהִים, מִן-הַמַּחֲנֶה; וַיִּתְיַצְּבוּ, בְּתַחְתִּית הָהָר. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
יח וְהַר סִינַי, עָשַׁן כֻּלּוֹ, מִפְּנֵי אֲשֶׁר יָרַד עָלָיו יְהוָה, בָּאֵשׁ; וַיַּעַל עֲשָׁנוֹ כְּעֶשֶׁן הַכִּבְשָׁן, וַיֶּחֱרַד כָּל-הָהָר מְאֹד. 18 Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
יט וַיְהִי קוֹל הַשֹּׁפָר, הוֹלֵךְ וְחָזֵק מְאֹד; מֹשֶׁה יְדַבֵּר, וְהָאֱלֹהִים יַעֲנֶנּוּ בְקוֹל. 19 And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
כ וַיֵּרֶד יְהוָה עַל-הַר סִינַי, אֶל-רֹאשׁ הָהָר; וַיִּקְרָא יְהוָה לְמֹשֶׁה אֶל-רֹאשׁ הָהָר, וַיַּעַל מֹשֶׁה. 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Conclusion :
Sikkum: (15mins)
- When the chanichim have completed the tasks they come back together inside.
- A mystical creature in the middle of the labyrinth says that before he hands the Torah back to Kadimah he needs to be persuaded why the Jewish people need it.
- He explains that he enjoys the stories and doesn’t see why he should hand it over
- In their groups they must come up with 3 reasons why the Torah should be given back to the Jewish people
- We hear the reasons and the Torah is handed back over

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