Today the Etzim children got a chance to explore our classroom torahs today before our school wide Simchat Torah celebration. In circle today, our Etzim children got a chance to practice rolling out the torah, holding it, and being gentle with our scroll. All the children had interesting questions about the holiday and the torah.
"Why are we rolling out the Torah? What stories are in it? Why can't we touch the tops of it?"
Rabbi Todd answered all of our questions in the sanctuary and we were able to share such an amazing experience today as a school in holding the torah together!
After, on the playground, Rohan led a bit of an impromptu Torah study to talk about our holiday and our special day!
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That is the question that I posed this morning at circle time. What is inside the Torah? We see it every week at Shabbat, we say the Sh'ma when it comes out of the ark, and we stand up when the ark is opened-so what's in it??? Here I was, thinking I was going to stump the kids. And then, they came back with answers like "It's written in Hebrew letters," "They aren't like our letters," and "Stories." I was blown away! I thought they didn't know anything about what was on this scroll!! After I asked this question, we unrolled a miniature Torah and the kids got to look at the writing up close. Sauci and I explained that we read the Torah a little bit each week and when we get to the end, we read it all over again. The kids instantly made the connection that rereading the Torah was like rereading a favorite book-you want to do it again and again!!