RE - Judaism Workshop

Today we had a brilliant workshop with Ruth to learn all about Judaism. She showed us a Torah and spoke about the rules and words that she follows in her daily life- the Ten Commandments. She then showed us some special objects from her home.  The children found that lots of things were written in Hebrew. We saw a mezuzah - a special box that Jewish people put on their door frames that contains a part of the Torah. We also looked at a menorah candlestick and Ruth talked about Hanukkah and how she celebrates it and the different games she plays including a driedel. Ruth told us about Shabbat and how they celebrate on a Friday night with grape juice and challah bread. 

The children were then very lucky and were able to look closely at the different objects and design a mezuzah box  the children then got to taste some challah bread.






















































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