Hebrew school went well.

Tamara had prepared a mosaic art project -- glue squares of paper to paper to make a sukkot related picture. I prepared a few other things. After the art project, we sat on the floor and I handed out fourteen sheets of paper, each with a name on it. It was the seven Ushpanizim and seven women who I chose as Ushpanot. So it was Avraham, Ytizchak, Yaakov, Yoseph, Moshe, Aharon, and David, and Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rivka, Miriam, Ruth, and Esther. We talked a bit about who those people were, and then each kid chose a piece of paper and drew a picture of that person.

I was surprised at how well it came out. We got a picture of Avraham smashing some idols, David fighting Goliath, Miriam watching over a baby in a basket on the Nile, Aharon talking to someone, Moshe on the top of Mount Sinai with a voice coming out of the clouds saying, "Hey, dude," a picture of Ruth just standing there. And a picture of a goldfish in a bowl. Okay, they can't all be winners. "No. Ya'akov did not have a pet fish." "How do you KNOW he didn't have a fish? LOTS of people have fish..."
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