בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַה֔וּא נָדְדָ֖ה שְׁנַ֣ת הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

 

Hebrew

            Recipie 1 – arbes for Puirm:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP3PDQM4w1k

            brachot on megillah:

http://jofamegillatesther.com/blessings.html

Recipie 2-  Classic Oznei Haman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU1UUJ894I

Reading:  Al Hanissim for purim:  https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Ashkenaz%2C_Weekday%2C_Shacharit%2C_Amidah%2C_Thanksgiving.8?ven=Sefaria_Community_Translation&lang=bi&lookup=%D7%91%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D&with=Lexicon&lang2=en

            Flavors From the field (play at 0.75x) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_woWRjUmbc

 

Parsha:   

Bimbam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG0D3FUFkHw&t=224s

Disability and the Mishkan:

TORF

Verses

Questions and Answers

Teshuva, R. Benny Lau

Purim:

purim quiz

let’s go shopping  for   Mishloach Manot Tower  google shopping

Contrast with YK.

With all this wonderful stuff, why do so many jews come for YK and be miserable, but not come for Purim and celebrate?        

            -Finally Because otherwise, Judaism would be….

 

 

Purim: Quiz Yourself! 

 

 

Question 1: How many times is the Megillah (Scroll of Esther) traditionally read aloud on Purim?

a)   Once, in the evening.

b)  Once, in the morning.

c)   Three times, in the evening, in the morning, and in the afternoon.

d)  Twice, in the evening and in the morning.

e)   As many times as is possible in a twenty-four hour period, nonstop

 

 

Question 2: What is a Purim shpiel?

a)   A festive meal eaten on Purim.

b)  A humorous play or show performed on Purim.

c)   A long sermon or speech given on Purim.

d)  A decorative costume or mask worn on Purim.

e)   A legendary  creature that rabbis send to devour people who complain about giving tzedakah

 

 

Question 3: The Hebrew word Purim literally means:

a)   Lots

b)  Masks

c)   Paper

d)  Persia

e)   Our Glorious Leader of the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea!

f)     

 

Question 4: Which of the following prayers is NOT said on Purim?

a)   Al Hanisim (For These Miracles)

b)  Amidah (the silent prayer)

c)   Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals)

d)  Hallel (Psalms of Praise)

e)   The blessing upon having used the toilet

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Ashkenaz%2C_Weekday%2C_Shacharit%2C_Preparatory_Prayers%2C_Asher_Yatzar.1?lang=bi&with=Sheets&lang2=bi

 

 

Question 5: Which of the following is NOT a Purim custom?

a)   Lighting Candles

b)  Dressing in costume

c)   Gifts of food

d)  Drinking alcohol

e)   A massive feast with multiple courses, as well as singing and contests

 

Question 6: What is a gragger?

a)   Triangular pastry eaten on Purim

b)  A prayer for the Purim victims

c)   Gifts to the poor

d)  A Purim noisemaker

e)   A legendary  creature that rabbis send to devour people who complain about giving tzedakah

 

 

Question 7: What is the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim called?

a)   Shabbat Shekalim

b)  Shabbat Zachor

c)   Shabbat Parah

d)  Shabbat Hagadol

e)   No such thing.  Shabbat can only come after Purim. Look at a jewish calendar.

 

Question 8: On what day is Ta'anit Esther (the Fast of Esther) observed?

a)   On the day before Purim.

b)  On Purim.

c)   On the day after Purim.

d)  Ta'anit Esther is no longer observed.

e)   It’s actually a three day fast, like in the Megilah.

 

Question 9: The story of Purim is thought to have been recorded as Megillat Esther (the Scroll of Esther) uring which period?

a)   Early First Temple

b)  Late First Temple

c)   Early Second Temple

d)  Late Second Temple

e)   Middle Third Temple Period

 

Question 10: According to the Purim story, how many sons did Haman have?

a)   Two

b)  Seven

c)   10

d)  12

e)   Dude, we know that Haman had only daughters.

 

Question 11: According to the Purim story, what did Mordecai refuse to do?

a)   Give his horse to Haman.

b)  Bow to Haman.

c)   Attend a banquet given by Haman

d)  Deliver a letter from Haman.

e)   Sing in Haman’s barbershop quartet.

 

 

 

Question 12: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the Megillah:

a)   Merrymaking

b)  Fasting and praying

c)   God

d)  Monarchy

e)   Golden couches.

 

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Braun Religious School, March 2024, Parshat Vayikra

TRUE OR FALSE?

1.      Moses had a speech impediment from a childhood injury.

2.     Jacob had a limp for the latter half of his life.

3.     Isaac was blind by the time his sons were grown.

4.     Jacob was blind by the time his grandsons were grown.          

5.     Sarah was barren (could not have children) for almost all of her life.

6.     Rachel was infertile (could not have children) for almost all of her life.

7.     Laeh was not barren, but was visually impaired.           

8.     Chushim, the son of Dan, grandson of Jacob, was incredibly strong- and deaf.       

9.     Gaviha ben Pesisa, the Jewish diplomat sent to Alexander the Great, was a Hunchback.

10.  Ehud, who was a judge over all of Israel (before there were Jewish Kings), had a deformed right hand.         

11.   Mepi’boshet, grandson of King Saul, a scholar who ate at King David’s table all his life, needed crutches to move as he could not walk.

 

Vayikra (Leviticus) 2:16-23

            -----Adonai spoke further to Moshe: Speak to Aaron and say: No man of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall be qualified to offer the food of his God.  No one at all who has a defect shall be qualified: no man who is blind, or lame, or has a limb too short or too long;  no man who has a broken leg or a broken arm;  or who is a hunchback, or a dwarf, or who has a growth in his eye, or who has a boil-scar, or scurvy, or crushed testes.  No man among the offspring of Aharon the priest who has a defect shall be qualified to offer Adonai’s offering by fire; having a defect, he shall not be qualified to offer the food of his God.  He may eat of the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy;  but he shall not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar, for he has a defect.

 

 

Why does the Torah prohibit people with these particular disabilities from serving in the Temple?

Because it prevents them from accomplishing Temple tasks?

Because people coming to the Temple might feel “uncomfortable”?

Because people coming to the Temple might get distracted from their task?

Because of something else?

Disability and Judaism: Society’s Influence on Halacha – Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Lau 

January 28, 2010

The Mishna in Tractate Megilla lays down that “a kohyen who has blemishes may not raise his palms [to participate in the priestly blessing]”.[7] The Talmud understands the mishna in its broad sense, describing all the kinds of blemishes that could invalidate a koheyn from raising his palms. The amoraim [sages of the Talmudic period, c. 220-550 C.E.] rise to the occasion and offer their own contributions to this list of disqualifiers:

Rav Huna said: A zavlagan [a person with a disfiguring  disease ] may not raise his palms in blessing.

This brings the Talmud to raise an objection:

Yet there was a certain zavlagan [priest] who lived in Rav Huna’s neighbourhood, and he used to raise his palms!

 

Could it be that Rav Huna does not practice what he preaches? The answer follows:

That [particular priest] was familiar in his own city.

As the discussion continues, an early source is brought, declaring that a man’s familiarity in society is the factor that determines whether he may take part in the priestly blessing, or whether his presence, with his physical deformities, will cause a social problem. The section continues to tell exactly the same story, as an event that took place in the beit midrash [study hall] and city of Rabbi Yochanan, Tiberius:

 

Rabbi Yochanan said: A [priest] who is blind in one of his eyes may not raise his palms. Yet there was a certain man [like that] in Rabbi Yochanan’s neighbourhood who did raise his palms! That man was familiar in his own city. 

 

Here the case in question is not that of a zavlagan but of a man who is partially sighted. In principle, such a man is disqualified from giving the priestly blessing – but the community have the power to rule otherwise by their actions. If the man is familiar in his own city, then he raises his hands to bless the congregation.

This distinction is delineated in the halacha.[8] It is clear that if the community had not reacted to those ‘blemished’ people with acceptance, the attitude of the halacha would not have changed; neither in the eyes of Rav Huna nor in those of Rabbi Yochanan.

If this is the case, the public has enormous power to define the place and standing of people with disabilities in society. Our attitude towards the disabled is not decreed from heaven. It rests upon the attention and responsibility of the entire community. If we know to see the good and the light within each one of us, we will succeed in containing every creation, in fixing the place of people with disabilities in the very heart of the community, and in allowing each and every person to take a part in our shared effort to repair the world by the light of the Torah.

— Rabbi Lau directs the Beit Midrash for Social Justice, Beit Morasha of Jerusalem. He is also the author of several Hebrew books on Rabbinics, rabbi of the Jerusalem Ramban Synagogue, and regularly broadcasts religious programming on Israeli television.