I think that Abraham Lincoln was a great leader, and this is because he led his country (or side of his country) out to war and they won, and most people (from the union) respected him.

My Grandfather thinks that king Soloman was a great leader because he was so intelligent.

I think that Joshua embodies both of these traits because he led the Jewish people through war and he was very smart.

COVID-19’s bad

Thank you, doctors, for helping

it is really nice

This is my studio, to me, it is my personal Mishkan, to you it may look like a mess… And it is, but it has everything I need. It has a PC so I can speak with people just like Aaron spoke with god. It has a chair so I can be comfortable while speaking with my friends, just like Aaron had an entire room to speak with god. And I have a microphone so people can actually hear me, just like the Mishkan had an altar to sacrifice animals.

What’s one thing you are excited to plan for experiential exodus?

I am excited to plan the 10 plagues because it is the part of experiential exodus that is my favorite.

What has been challenging for this project?

Working and agreeing on things with people because we all have different opinions and some people want to stick to their opinion and only their opinion.

What is your favorite part of the exodus story and why?

The 10 plagues because when I was little, it was the one that we were taught the most and the most consistently.

My painting is about how on either side of the earth there is light and dark. Light representing being a good person, and the dark represents being a bad person. but on earth, it’s not just light and dark, good and bad. On earth, you can choose to be either a good person or a bad person, and in Judaism, we strive to be part of the light. I added a person, on earth, balancing on a scale with life on one side, because as Jews we have to balance living life, and striving to move towards the light to be a good person. I have the person depicted as happy because right now he has his life balanced, but sometimes the scale tips the other way, if life is becoming a burden, you can start going towards the dark because its easier than going to the light, but we have to keep our minds set on going to the light and being good people because if not then the scale will start to tip and we will be less connected to Judaism.

I think that I could connect this to my life because when my dad was very sick I didn’t understand what was really going on and how dangerous it was, but if that happened now and I did know what was going on then I could think of this, that I have to think on the bright side and I have to be the optimist that everything would be okay, to pull me through that rough time.

Picture of my painting

In Jewish studies, we learned about kevah and kavanah. Kevah means structure, and kavanah means bringing meaning and intention to the prayer. We also made songs to prayers in the Amidah. My prayer was knowledge, and we put aa piano tune played by me to it. I learned that it’s a lot harder to make a tune to something than it seems. I am glad that I went through this learning experience and I hope that I keep learning about kevah and kavanah.

I learned that there are 4 tropes and that there are hand signals for trope. I did not know this before today but I am happy that I learned something new.

I opened the Tanach and went to page 1800 and read “They were to observe them as days of feasting and merry, and as an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor.” This means that that’s when the mitzvah of giving mishloach manot, matanyot le’evyonim, feasting, and merrymaking started.

What was one thing you learned throughout this project?

That if you can’t work hard and that if your group doesn’t click, then you can’t get much done.

How would you explain the answer to what should the future of the jews look like?

I think that Israel should be a thing because right now there are some jews in poverty, and this would help them to build their life back up.

In a place where there is no man try to be a man.

I think this means that if people are being rude to each other and not treating each other nicely, be the person to step up and break the fights up.

My goal to integrate this into my life is for whenever there is a fight or an argument that seems like its going too far, I’m going to try to break it up.