We Love Our Animals!

I hope you enjoyed the nice long weekend and are gearing up for another great family session in Yad b'Yad this Sunday. At our last session, we talked about many of the students' favorite subject - animals! The middah that encourages us to be kind to animals is called tzar ba'alay chayim. Treating animals with respect and dignity is very high up in our priorities as Jewish people. We talked about some of the laws related to treating animals nicely and why we care about our animals so much. We watched a G-dCast video that discusses the torah portion that is most often referenced when discussing this middah. Check it out here -

After a lively music and TPR session, we spent time thinking about what our favorite types of animals would say if they could speak to us. Each group then performed skits as their favorite animals - we had dogs who said "I love you!" and hamsters who explored the classroom while the students were at home.

I look forward to seeing you all this Sunday!

Stay warm,
Julie