A Poem About me Sacrificing for the Greater Good

Here is my poem:

Well, you ask me what I have to sacrifice this week? Okay, here it is;

I have not been able to go to school. That is not what I  would do if I could make things go my way.

I have to stay at home and do almost nothing (other than working and relaxing). NOT boring. But not that fun either.

I work then I work then I work then  play then I work then I work then I work then I eat then I work then I work then I work then I work then I work then I eat then I sleep (not really).

Then, if you think about it LONG and HARD, you would find out that there is not much else that I have had to sacrifice this week other than staying away from people.

For me, I think that I am pretty lucky. I don’t have to sacrifice much. I have a home and there people to take care of me, and I have things that I can use to get work done. Anyhow, what do you have to sacrifice during this time?

How is my poem???? Do you like it? Do you????

My Own Personal Mishkan

For Jewish Studies we had to make out own personal mishkan. If you don’t know what a mishkan is, its the special place where the Jews could connect to G-d  that was made while the Jews were walking through the desert. I made mine in the bottom bunk of my loft bunk bed. It has my favorite stuffed animals, it has pictures of family and friends on the wall, it has little lights around my bed that make it feel more at home, it has my two favorite books, and a picture from my favorite trip that my family has taken. Here is a video of me showing it to you:

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High Holiday Reflection

For my high holiday project, I chose to learn about the Holy Temple on Yom Kippur. Our driving question (the main question) was; what are the differences of the Yom Kippur service now and in the time of the Holy Temple?                     We found out that in the time of the Holy Temple we sacrificed animals and the High Priest who was like a Rabbi, went into the Holy of Holies (a place that only the High Priests could go and only on Yom Kippur) and asked G-d to forgive all of Israel for all their sins. We also know that now, we go to services and we pray with a Rabbi, not High Priest and you are not in the BeitHamikdash when you pray. This was a very interesting and very hard topic to research and make a poster about and I really like how it turned out!

High Holiday Project Brainstorm

Our topic is the holy temple and what it’s services for Yom Kippur were like back then.

We don’t really know much about our topic but we will do a lot of research.

A couple questions that I have are:

  1. How did the holy temple’s services on Yom Kippur connect to the services in our temples on Yom Kippur now (our driving question)?
  2. Did the people respond differently to the Yom Kippur services then, than now?

We will look for answers to our questions in books and reliable online sources.

The help that we need from teachers to move forward in our project is good online sources to help get information.