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A Message from the Directors
Dear Parents,
Parshat Trumah
Light Candles Light Candles at 5:16 pm
Shabbat Ends: 6:17 pm
As we parent, raise and nurture our children together, we
thought the following (from the book Connection Parenting by Pam Leo) would inspire you:
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
one is roots and the other is wings.
The gift of roots is the gift of providing our children with
a healthy sense of self worth; a core belief that they matter
and are worthy of being treated with love and respect. We
provide our children with the gift of roots by spending
enough time with them and giving them the message that
they are worthy of love. Actively playing with our children, reading to and with them or just acting silly with
them are all powerful ways to connect and communicate
our love for our children. When we treat children lovingly,
they learn to love themselves and others.
The gift of wings is the gift of a healthy self-esteem; the
core belief that one is capable, competent and valued by
others. We provide children the gift of wings by allowing
them to do what we do and provide opportunities for them
to become capable and feel valued. Parents do much for
their children to let them know they are loved. However,
that is not enough; children need to feel valued. Children
gain competence and confidence from what we do "with"
them rather than what we do "for" them. Children love to
help us make dinner, wash the car, plant the garden and
rake the leaves. The chores that adults view as work, children view as play. As parents we have the positive influence to turn a chore into connection time by including our
children into the process. When we value children, they
learn to value themselves and others.
May we merit to inspire our children to love and value
themselves as well as others.
Shabbat Shalom!
Orite & Sonya
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Mazel Tov!
Mazel tov to Yosef Shutyak and
his family on the birth of a baby
boy.
Mazel tov to Morah Sonya on
becoming an aunt again to a
baby girl Eliana Adara.
Thank You!
Thank you to the Jutkowitz family
for their library donation in honor of
Avishai’s birthday!
Thank you to the Knapp family for
their donation in honor of Eli’s birthday!
————————————A huge thank you to the following volunteers who took time out of their day to
help pack Mishloach Manot:
Deborah Berger
Daniella Cohen
Nechama Cohen
Ariel Dadon
Rina Dadon
Melissa Dadon
Adi Malek
Shaindy Rothman
Ori Malek
Shir Malek
Riva Ozcakir
Rozi yaani
Torah Town
Dear Parents,
This week we continued learning the mitzvah of Kosher that we discussed last week. In the Torah it discusses the mitzvah of not eating milk and meat together. Part of the special mitzvah of kosher includes
not eating milk and meat together. The children had a great time playing in the two kitchens. The blue
kitchen was for dairy food and the red one was for meat. Be careful! Make sure keep the pizza food stays
in the blue kitchen.
This week the Torah speaks about the building of the Mishkan, a special shul for Hashem. The children
helped gather all the different material for the building of the Mishkan. The children dressed up as the
Jewish people who were traveling through the desert. As “Moshe” called out the different material that
he needed, the child who had that material brought it up to him in order for it to be used for the building
of the Mishkan. The Jews were so excited to do this special mitzvah they brought so much gold, silver,
cloth of purple red and blue, etc., that Moshe had to tell them “Stop, please! There is too much!” The children had a great time figuring out how to dye materials using beets and blueberry. We had one question,
though: from where did the Jewish people get all this gold, silver and shiny stones? After the Jews left
Mitztrayim, Pharoh ran after them. The waters opened for the Jews, but Pharoh and his people fell into
the water with their beautiful chariots that were covered in gold and silver. Hashem made a miracle that
the gold and silver and jewels from their Egyptians flooded to the top of the water. The Jewish people
were so excited to see them flooding on top of the water they ran to take them because they knew that it
can be used for a Mitzvah. Now, that time came to use all the gold and silver for a mitzvah, the mitzvah
of building the special shul for Hashem, the Mishkan!
Shabbat Shalom ~ Morah Mira!
Calendar Updates
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Monday, March 1st- Shushan Purim Costume Party, Carnival and Pony Rides – Parent volunteers are needed!
Monday, March 8th, 8:15 p.m. - Parenting Workshop - "Taming Tantrums: Improving Communication with Young Children"
PURIM IS COMING – Extension of Deadline to Order
Mishloach Manot
We are selling mishloach manot that will be sent home
with the preschool children. We are offering two sizes.
Large packages cost $14.00 and small packages will cost
$6.00. Additionally, parents can contribute to a group
mishloach manot for the teachers and staff of Lubavitch
on the Palisades. All orders can be placed online. A portion
of the proceeds will go towards the writing of a Sefer Torah in memory of Pesha LaPine, Morah Mira’s mother. To
order, go to www.chabadlubavitch.org/PurimPreschool.
The order deadline has been extended to Monday,
February 22.
Volunteers Needed for Purim
Carnival!
Volunteers are much needed and appreciated to help out for the carnival on March 1st. To volunteer,
please contact Orite Rubenstein at
[email protected] or at
(201) 871-1152 ext. 506.