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The ESP of the Jewish Way of Life  Roll your mouse over each circle to find the questions. Click on circles for more about Jewish ESP!
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Tashlich
While the
following
made the
rounds via
the web last year, we
thought it was worth repeating for
those who aren’t plugged in and for
those who just enjoy a little giggle every
once in a while.
On Rosh Hashanah, Jews all over the world participate in the mitzvah of Tashlich. In this ceremony, Jews traditionally go to the ocean, a stream,or a river to pray and throw bread crumbs into the water. Symbolically, the bread represents their sins and their throwing the crumbs into the water is meant to represent the casting out of those sins. Occasionally people ask what kind of bread should be thrown. Here is a list of suggested breads which may be appropriate for specific sins or misbehaviors.
For ordinary sins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .White Bread |
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Here are a few tidbits from readers whose kids’ understanding of Judaism, God, or ethics just made them giggle. If you have a Jewish funny from your kids or a moment that made you stop and think and you’d like to share it with our readers, check out our submissions box on page 14. We’d love to hear from you.
In the morning when he retrieved his money and read the note he turned to us, surprised, and said, "I didn’t know the tooth fairy was Jewish."
Submitted by Christine Levinson, Los Angeles,
California.
"You know," she said, "George Washington was the first president of the United States — he chopped down the cherry tree. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president — he freed all the slaves." One of the kids’ hands shot up and when called on he asked, "Lily, what’s a slave?" "Well," Lily answered, "Can you imagine doing all the cooking and all the cleaning — all the work of the whole house and never being paid? That’s a slave." My daughter, Sophie, raised her hand and said, "Lily, I know a slave." "You do?" asked Lily surprised. Sophie nodded wide-eyed as she replied, "My Mom." Submitted by Caren Goodman, Detroit, Michigan.
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Belonging
to the Jewish PEOPLE.
We were on vacation when our seven-year-old
son, Mitch, lost a tooth. Normally,we give
him a silver dollar but in this instance we
were out of luck — far from our stash of
coins at the house.
Instead, we gave him the smallest thing
we had on us, a five-dollar bill with a
note that read: "Dear Mitch, I tracked
you down at the hotel but my bag of
coins broke on the stairs so I have to give you this five dollar
bill. It is more than I usually like give at one time,
so why don’t you give some of it to tzedekah."
It was President’s Week and Lily, my daughter’s
prekindergarten
teacher at our local JCC, was trying to
explain to the kids who the presidents were and why
we were celebrating them.