Short Parsha Riddles: תְּרוּמָה / Terumah

שְׁמוֹת / Shemos / Exodus 25:1-27:19

Click for printable PDF version. And don’t forget to read last year’s poem!

This is a new project – feedback is most welcome! (except for one of my children whose only feedback was “these are not as good as the parsha poems”)

Copywork and parsha activities – something for every week of the year!

[1]

When you listen and serve Him, we stand face to face,
Gleaming and shining our light through the place;
But when it’s against Hashem’s will that you fight,
Our faces turn outward, turn stormy as night. Who are we???

[2]

Three kinds of metals they brought in this parsha,
The men and the women, from Felix to Marsha;
They gave shiny gold, and their silver brought nearer,
And each lady also gave her __________ mirror!

[3]

Branches have I, but don’t grow from the ground,
I’m not in the fields, for in “kodesh” I’m found;
I bear flowers, it’s true, but I yield no bouquet,
I’m the __________ and the kohen lights me every day!

[4] – BONUS!

All those acacia, or sheeteem-trees needed,
Yet trees only grow up from seeds that are seeded;
For aron and shulchan, mizbeyach and planks,
It was to old __________ the Jews gave their thanks!

STUMPED?? Here are some answers:
[ 1 ] The Kruvim (Cherubs). The Talmud (Bava Basra 99a) offers these changing positions as an explanation of conflicting sources of which way they faced.
[ 2 ] Copper.
[ 3 ] Menorah.
[4 ] Yaakov. Rashi (25:5) offers a midrash that explains that Yaakov foresaw that we’d need lots of wood – so he brought seeds and planted trees when he arrived in Mitzrayim (Egypt), instructing the Jews to bring the wood when they left.

Comments

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page. As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi! If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi! If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah : the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science : Plants, Animals, Human Body Math Ambleside : Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature Science General Poems for Elemental Science . Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful. Three pages are included: one page with two po

What do we tell our kids about Chabad and “Yechi”?

If I start by saying I really like Chabad, and adore the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, z"l, well... maybe you already know where I'm headed. Naomi Rivka has been asking lately what I think about Chabad. She asks, in part, because she already knows how I feel. She already knows I’m bothered, though to her, it’s mostly about “liking” and “not liking.” I wish things were that simple. Our little neighbourhood in Israel has a significant Chabad presence, and Chabad conducts fairly significant outreach within the community. Which sounds nice until you realize that this is a religious neighbourhood, closed on Shabbos, where some huge percentage of people are shomer mitzvos. Sure, it’s mostly religious Zionist, and there are a range of observances, for sure, but we’re pretty much all religious here in some way or another. So at that point, this isn’t outreach but inreach . Convincing people who are religious to be… what? A lot of Chabad’s efforts here are focused on kids, including a

Adventures in Mama-Land

Search This Blog