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Family Learning 5/5/07**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

Today we are going to figure out what this line means: “I prefer what Eleazar ben Arakh said to what you have said, because his definition includes all of yours…” (Piekei Avot 2: 10)

In Rimmonim this year, we have thought and talked about lots of body parts that we can use to help others and to become better people.

Today we are going to add “heart” to that list.

For “family learning” today, each group will take a body part from the list below and talk about all the ways we can use it to do good. Then we will have a contest and each body part will explain to the whole group why it believes that it is the most important. Afterwards, we will look at one Rabbi’s opinion about which body part is the most important.

Eyes Ears Mouth Hands Feet Heart

“All the parts of the body depend on the heart.” (Talmud, P. Ter 8:10)

Children’s Learning 5/5/07 and 5/19/07**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

Human Board Game

Objective: First one to get around the board wins. -The board is set up with four pieces of green, yellow, purple, and blue paper on each side of a square. -Kids are split into teams of two or three. -The kids are the game pieces. -They roll dice to determine how many places they will move. -Each color spot on the board corresponds to the same color on a note card. Ask the kids a question from the card. -There are four different kinds of cards: 1. Act Out-these cards give a scenario that is tempting to act in an “Un-lev-Tov” way. The group acts it out in a Lev-Tov way. Example: Your friend is over after school and he breaks your favorite toy… 2. Speak Out-The group has to make up a Lev-Tov rule about a topic. Example: Make up a Lev-Tov rule about having guests over. 3. Think Out-Just like it Act out the group is given a scenario that could be very Un-lev-Tov. Instead of acting it out they have to just say what they would do. 4. Wild Card-This is something fun like make up a cheer about Lev-Tov or make up a movement about Lev-Tov.

Story We read a story from the book "Listen to the Trees". It was about taking care of the earth. We talked about Earth day and how taking care of the Earth is part of having a Lev-Tov.

Adult Learning 5/5/07**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

1. “And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.” “And the Lord saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time.” (Gen 6:5)

2. “You shall know in your heart, that just as a man chastises his son, so does the Lord, your God, chastise you. “ “Bear in mind that the Lord your God disciplines you just as man disciplines his son.” Deut. 8:5)

3. “Beware, lest there be in your heart an unfaithful thought, saying ...” “Beware lest you harbor the base thought that…” (Deut. 15:9)

4. “Yet until this day, the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear.” “Yet until this day, the Lord has not given you mind to understand or eyes to see and ears to hear.” (Deut. 29:3)

5. “No the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.” (Deut. 30:14)

6. And when Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, he said unto them: Take to heart all the words which I have warned you this day.” (Deut. 32:45-46)

7. “Take to heart these instructions which I charge you this day.” (Deut. 6:6)

How do the Jewish concepts of “heart” and “mind” differ from the way we think of them in secular society? What are the implications for us in our daily life of the Jewish way of understanding “heart” and “mind”?

Take Home Activity 5/5/07**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

Making a Sign for Our Blood Drive

1. On a piece of poster board: draw of a picture, make up a slogan/line and include these facts:

Blood and Organ Donation Registration Drive In honor of Rabbi Kelman’s retirement after 19 years at Netivot Shalom Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:00-2:00 Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Way, Berkeley Co-sponsored by Congregations Netivot Shalom, Beth Israel and Beth El, Or Zarua and the Berkeley Montessori School Call 549-9447 for further information

2. Decorate your poster in any way you wish so that it is attention grabbing

3. Then put your poster up at your school, neighborhood grocery store, your parents’ health club, etc. OR give it to Aliza in our front office to put up in the shul’s front windows OR give it to BMS next door to put in its windows.

Family Learning May 19, 2007**
 * //Lev Tov///A Good Heart

“PLEASE, LISTEN TO ME!” Last week we talked about how important the heart is. It is connected to all the other parts of the body and to how we use all those parts. For each of the following situations, one person will be the eyes, ears, mouth, hands or feet. Another person will be the heart and give the other body parts advice about the //lev tov///good heart thing to do in the situation.
 * “All the parts of the body depend on the heart.” (Talmud, P. Ter 8:10)**

1. You are at a birthday party. You are 6, but some of the children are only 3 and 4. There is a piñata and a child has just broken the piñata so candy is spilling out of it. Your feet rush into the group and your hands start grabbing as much candy as they can get.

(turn over) 2. You are sitting in your classroom at school. The teacher is asking the children to think of words that rhyme with “late.” One girl can’t think of a word and starts to cry. Your mouth opens to say, “It’s so easy! There are so many….” 3. During lunchtime at school, one of your friends starts complaining to you about another friend. She is saying things that aren’t very nice, even though they might be true. Your ears don’t want to hear her words and your mouth doesn’t know what to say. 4. You are in the backseat of a car with two friends. You and one of the friends each have a dog and are talking about all the funny things your dogs do. The third friend says that she has an imaginary dog and describes the funny things her dog does. Your mouth opens to say, “That’s not the same thing. Your dog’s just pretend. Our dogs are real.” 5. You have asked your mom for a granola bar. She has told you to wait until after dinner. This is not the answer you want and your ears don’t want to hear it. Your stomach is hungry and wants the granola bar right now! 6. Your brother has lots of interesting things on shelves in his room. He has asked you repeatedly not to go into his room without asking him. Your ears don’t want to hear this. Now you have a friend over and really want to show our friend some of the cool stuff on your brother’s shelves. Your mouth is telling your friend about the cool stuff and inviting him into your brother’s room to see it. 7. You helped your mom bake a batch of cookies for a tea party at the neighbors’ house. Everyone loved the cookies. You are helping bring the cookie tray home and there is one big cookie left on it. Your mouth really wants to eat it! 8. You are riding the bus home from school. Some older boys sitting across from you are teasing the boy sitting next to you. They are saying very unkind things and the boy looks like he is fighting back tears. Your mouth doesn’t know what to say and your eyes don’t know where to look. 9. You are at a park. A child is having a major temper tantrum. His mother is trying to talk to him and he is screaming, crying and even hitting her. Your eyes stare. Your mouth hangs open. 10. You are walking with your dad. You see a homeless man sitting on a bench. He smells really bad and looks dirty. You feel scared. Your nose wants to be held shut and your eyes want to look away.

Adult Learning May 19, 2007**
 * //Lev Tov///A Good Heart

Notes from //A Responsible Life: The Spiritual Path of Mussar// by Ira Stone In this book, Rabbi Stone takes the ideas of several key figures in the shaping of traditional Mussar- Rav Israel Salanter, Emmanuel Levinas, and Simha Zissel- and creates a contemporary approach to Mussar practice based on them.

1. Why it’s so hard to be good: self vs. soul 2. Carrying “the burden of the other” 3. //Yetzer ha-tov// vs. //yetzer ha-ra// 4. //Halakha// as means to help us to do this 5//. Yirat hashem// and //ahavat hashem// as tools in this process
 * Key Concepts in Mussar**

Mussar means correction or instruction and has come to signify moral education. It is also the Hebrew word for ethics and morals. Mussar tries to answer the question, “Why is it so hard to be good?” Mussar provides a structure for addressing our questions about why it is so hard to do what is good. Our daily attention is constantly drawn to the “self,” rather than to the “soul.” Mussar demands that our day-to-day actions be suffused with a concern for doing the good and that the good we do be grounded in communal norms and obligations, i.e. attention to the “other.” Attention to “the other” leads to attention to the other and the other… all the way to The Other. We can feel overwhelmed with this burden and “go to sleep” in the face of it. Staying awake for one another all the time, being in a state of constant wakefulness, is impossible, but we can experience moments of wakefulness. It’s the possibility of expanding these moments that Mussar strives for. Mussar teaches us how to learn to bear another’s burden together with that person without allowing one’s own needs to be neglected or overshadowed. In Mussar theory, human consciousness is the tension between //yetzer ha-tov// and //yetzer ha-ra//, a choice between good and evil. “At every moment we have a choice and our humanity is defined by our awareness of this choice and by how we chose to act when faced with this choice.” Two tools we use to orient ourselves toward //yetzer ha-tov// and away from //yetzer ha-ra// are, in Mussar theory, //yirat hashem// and //ahavat hashem// (fear/love of God). Working on the //middot// develops both and this orients us toward the //yetzer ha-tov. Yirat hashem// is seen as synonymous with wisdom, but wisdom meaning the faculty we possess as a gift from God through which we implement the choices we make every day– choices about whether to follow //yetzer ha-tov// or //ha-ra//. We tremble (the word //yirah//) with the knowledge that at every moment we are in a position to choose between good and evil. Thus the fear of God we are trembling before is the recognition of our responsibilities. Regarding our //ahavat hashem//, Rabbi Stone says that our desire for love is an infinite desire and can only be satisfied when directed toward an Infinite Beloved (God). This commands us to choose //yetzer ha-tov//. Rabbinic Judaism is characterized by intense and devoted study and observance of Jewish law///halakhah//. Israel is conceived as a “covenantal people, a people constituted by its adherence to a divine commandment.” Commitment to law was viewed as having as its purpose the perfection of the human personality shaped in the image of God. Hebrew Scripture combines law and ethical perfection, but Rabbi Stone makes the point that this emphasis on law, while critical to the survival of Judaism and part of its genius, is responsible for one of its oft recurring flaws: the narrowing of focus from the purpose of the law to the means of achieving that purpose. We can lose sight of the ethical perfection we are striving for. The purpose of Mussar is to reconnect purpose with method and in Mussar ideology, //halakhah// is seen as the Jewish way of keeping us awake, awake to our responsibilities to “the other.”

Although a focus on ethics and ethical behavior goes back to at least the 10th century, what is called the Mussar movement developed primarily in Lithuania in second half of 19th cent, founded by Rabbi Israel Lipkin of Salant (Rav Israel Salanter). He sought to “explore the composition of the human soul and provide a series of techniques to help minimize the ‘disconnect’ so often experienced between our actions and our ideals. Salanter wrote that the quest for ethical perfection (mussar) is a process which encounters opposition from our personalities, since very traits needed to establish our individual identities impede this quest. His goal was to transform human nature– so that service to and responsibility for other human beings is the single most important human value. Salanter believed that the process of turning ourselves into ethical, responsible beings was too difficult and too important to leave to chance. It required active effort. He proposed: (a) the study of Mussar texts and (b) through active monitoring of our behavior to understand the forces “unconsciously at work.” He called on students to sequester themselves for a period of time every day and “to review aloud and passionately the values found in Mussar texts.” They were to use a behavioral checklist to measure their progress. He created Mussar groups in which members could gently point out failures among fellow members and help them find strength to change such behaviors. Students were to memorize statements from texts that addressed the particular character trait they wanted to work on and to recite them when confronting situations in which this trait was in play. Simha Zissel studied with Salanter and established a Mussar center in Lithuania. He believed that we could transform our nature into a spiritual nature, which would enable us to acquire Torah, meaning “binding the spiritual force of Torah to one’s soul” by “carrying the burden with one’s fellow.” The relationship between “the enclosed self and the other person bridges the gap between the finite and the infinite, between each of us and God, by our assuming responsibility for one another.” The Torah is brought into he world by bearing the burden of the other. The 20th century French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, originally from Lithuania, developed a philosophy emphasizing the primacy not of the self, but of the other­– other human beings. “Self comes into existence by virtue of the other, and therefore is indebted to the other.” Addressing the concerns of the post-Holocaust world, God is not responsible for the other; we are, both individually and collectively. We experience God’s absence, not as an emptiness, but as a trace of God and this is on the face of another person. The other’s face is seen as “the place of the trace of God’s having passed by.” To be “chosen” or “commanded” means for Levinas to recognize and act on this commanded responsibility vis-à-vis the other person.
 * Key Figures in the Mussar Movement**

//Lev Tov/// A Good Heart Blood Drive June 10, 2007 10:00-2:00**
 * Social Action Project

Here are the things you can do to make sure our blood drive in honor of Rabbi Kelman is a success:

1. Go to www.bloodheroes.com (sponsor code= Netivot) and sign up for a time slot!

2. Bring at least one other person with you to give blood. (Donors do not have to be Jewish.)

3. Email Cathy to sign up for a time slot to be a greeter.

4. Email Cathy to sign up for a time slot to serve juice and refreshments.

5. Bring some cookies and/or fruit to serve donors.

6. Bring orange juice to serve donors.

7. Bring your poster to put up!

Intergenerational Activity for Shul-Wide Retreat Memorial Day Weekend, 2007**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

After Birkat and before Havdallah (for about an hour), the whole congregation remained in the dining room for the following intergenerational learning activity focused on //lev tov///a good heart. Each table received one of the following scenes. They were asked to read the scene and talk about the role //lev tov// could play in this situation. Then each group acted out its scene before everyone, and the “audience” offered “//lev tov//” things to say that would help to resolve the situation. The range of responses was really wide. Then as a wrap-up activity, people stood before the group and read aloud the lines from Torah below (which were pre-glued onto brightly colored paper) and then affixed them with heart stickers to a huge poster of a red heart, with the words //lev tov// in Hebrew, transliterated, and in English written on it. This poster now decorates the Rimmonim room.

Tom loves riding his motorcycle and he loves not wearing a helmet. The law in his state doesn’t require motorcyclists to wear helmets. He is a good driver and has never been in an accident. He likes the feeling of freedom and of the wind in his hair when he rides. He feels that it is a personal choice he is making and that it doesn’t hurt anyone. His girlfriend hates that he rides without a helmet. She is afraid every time he does it. She really wants him to wear a helmet and he refuses.

Rob’s hobby was collecting baseball cards and he had over 100 of them. One afternoon his friend Tom came over with his baseball cards and the boys had put them out on the picnic table to look at them. Then Rob’s mother sent him on an errand and Tom went home for a while. They put the cards under big rocks to keep them from blowing away. After a while, it suddenly rained and Rob’s mom sent his sister out to bring the cards inside. She left Tom’s out and they got totally ruined. She felt that Tom’s cards weren’t her responsibility.

Jeff lived across the street from a boy named David who teased him all the time– calling him names, throwing things at him, cutting ahead of him in line for lunch. Jeff hated David. One day Jeff’s dad announced that David’s family was coming over for dinner. David said, “No way. I hate him.” Jeff’s dad said that hating is wrong and that he needed to try to like David. Jeff said that he didn’t care if hating was wrong, that was how he felt!

Carol saved up her allowance and went clothes shopping by herself for the first time. She went to a thrift store and bought a bright green skirt, gold sneakers, a yellow polka dot T-shirt, and an orange and red striped sweater. She came home all excited about her purchases and ran upstairs to change into her new outfit to show her parents. Her mom said, Wow! I like the colors.” Her dad said, “Your outfit is interesting.” Carol was crushed. She said to her dad, “Even if you hate it, say something nice about it anyway” and she ran upstairs crying. Her dad turned to her mom and said, “You know I try never to lie.”

Old Uncle Ben is in the hospital, quite sick. His old dog suddenly gets very sick too and Joseph’s parents take the dog to the vet. When Joseph goes to the hospital to visit his uncle, Ben wants to know how his dog is and who is taking care of him. He seems quite worried about the dog. Joseph doesn‘t know what to say to his uncle.

Max is having lunch with some friends. They start complaining about how strange their mutual friend Ted has gotten– he’s always walking around with his head down, he doesn’t call anyone up to make plans or smile at anyone. Max is upset at his friends for talking about Ted. He knows that Ted’s sister is quite sick and that his family might have to move closer to the extended family. Ted is upset about both of these things. Max knows that his friends don’t know the whole story and he doesn’t want to share with them what Ted told him in confidence.

Sam had begged his parents for weeks for a dog, promising to take care of him. They finally agreed on the condition that Sam walk him every day after school and feed him every morning and evening. Sam agreed to do this. For some weeks, everything was great. Sam really loved his new dog Gus and was happy to take care of him, but then homework got harder and baseball season began and he started to forget to feed and walk the dog. His parents told him that he hadn’t kept up his end of the bargain and said they were going to take the dog back to the shelter where they had gotten him. “But I love Gus and Gus loves me!” Sam said.

Two weeks ago Laurie was invited to a friend’s house for dinner. The friend told her that she was inviting only her five closest friends and was going to prepare a feast to show them how grateful she was for their love and support last year when she had been ill. The evening of the dinner, Laurie is really tired and has a splitting headache. All she wants to do is lie in bed with an ice pack on her head. The last thing she wants to do is eat a lot of rich food and be in a loud group.

Shelly and Tracy are sisters. They go to school together, but are three grades apart. Sometimes they see each other at lunchtime, but Shelly doesn’t pay much attention to Tracy because she is younger and hangs out with other little kids. One day at lunch, Shelly is sitting with her friends when she notices that some kids are picking on Tracy. They are taking her drink and giving her a hard time. Shelly is afraid that her friends will roll their eyes if they see her helping her sister, but she doesn’t like to see Tracy being hurt.

Jason comes rushing out of the subway station eager to get to work. His train was 10 minutes late and he’s nervous because he has a big meeting with his boss and some new clients. He has been asked to give a presentation. His boss has warned him not to be late because it will make a bad first impression on the new clients. Jason almost trips on something and pausing in his run to look down, he sees that an elderly woman has dropped a bag of groceries and cans, jars and fruit are rolling all over the sidewalk. She looks up at him with a hopeful smile and says, “Can you help me?”

One very hot Sunday, Jenny and Carly decide to buy lemons, cups, and ice and set up a lemonade stand to make some extra money. Jenny wants to sell each cup for a dollar, but Carly thinks that is too expensive. It only costs them 10 cents a cup to make the lemonade. Jenny wants to make as much money as she can.

It’s the last quarter of a basketball game. According to the league rules, all the boys on the team have to play at least one quarter. In this particular game, all the boys have played two quarters except Joe and Ken, who aren’t very good at basketball although they love to play. They have played only one quarter. Their team is down by four points. “”Coach,” ask Joe and Ken, “can we play this quarter?” “No!” yell other players. “We’ll lose.”

Gloria is having a sleepover and she has invited all the girls in her class except Melissa, who, Gloria tells her mom, is really mean and doesn’t get along with anyone. “But think of how you would feel if everyone got invited to a party except you,” her mom asked. “But I don’t like her and I don’t want her to ruin my party. No one will have a good time if she is here.”

Larry lives next door to a very elderly man, Saul, who is determined to stay in his own home as long as he possibly can and Larry finds himself helping Saul more and more with little every day things like picking the newspaper up off the sidewalk, putting out the garbage cans, and doing errands. The man’s son, Ed, lives far away and worries about his dad’s safety. Ed has told Larry that he would like to put his father into a nursing home so that he wouldn’t have to worry so much about him. Ed is in town for a visit and has just come back from the grocery store with Saul. Larry sees them from his window and decides to go over to say hello to Ed. When Larry and Saul are both on the steps, Saul loses his footing and drops a bag of groceries. The son comes running out saying, “What happened?” Saul says, “Oh Larry and I just bumped into each other on the steps.” Larry knows what really happened and why Saul lied about it.

Karen is a really good gymnast but for some reason, she gets nervous when her dad watches her and she doesn’t perform as well then. He doesn’t put pressure on her. He is just proud of her and enjoys watching her compete. Still she is self-conscious when he is there. She decides to tell him how she feels and then asks, “Please don’t come to my meets any more.” Her dad is shocked and upset. He says, “But I look forward all week to your meets. It is really fun for me to be with the other parents and I am so proud of you.” Do not hate your kinsfolk in your heart. (Leviticus 19:17) Love Adonai, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deut. 6:5) Cut away, therefore, the thickening about your hearts and stiffen your necks no more. (Deut. 10:16) Do not harden your heart and shut your hand against needy kinsman. (Deut. 15:7) You must be wholehearted with the Adonai, your God. (Deut. 18:13) No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it. (Deut. 30:14) I will praise you Adonai with all my heart; I will tell all Your wonders. (Psalms 9:2) So my heart rejoices, my whole being exults, and my body rests secure. (Psalms 16:9)
 * Lines from Torah and Psalms (Translations from //Etz Hayim// and the JPS //Tanakh//:

May the words of my mouth and the prayer of my heart be acceptable to You, Adonai, my Rock and my redeemer. (Psalms 19:15)

Adonai is close to the broken-hearted; those crushed in spirit Adonai delivers. (Psalms 34:19)

The teaching of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip. (Psalms 37:31)

For Adonai knows the secrets of the heart. (Psalms 44:22)

My mouth utters wisdom and the speech of my heart is full of insight. (Psalms 49:4)

Fashion a pure heart for me, Adonai, and create in me a steadfast spirit. (Psalms 51:12)

Teach us to count our days rightly that we may obtain a wise heart. (Psalms 90:12)

Turn my heart to Your decrees and not to love of gain. (Psalms 119:36)

Just as face answers face in a reflection in water, so should one person’s heart answer another.” (Proverbs 27:19).

The place that my heart holds dear is the place my feet will lead me to. (Tosefta, Mo'ed Katan 4:2)

Adonai… heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Pslams 147:3)

Look to Adonai. Take Courage and be strong of heart. (Psalms 27:14)

Children’s Activities for Shul-Wide Retreat Memorial Day Weekend, 2007**
 * //Lev Tov/// A Good Heart

Children were divided into 3 different age groups­ preschoolers through 1st graders, 2nd through 4th graders, and 5ththrough 7th graders. Each group participated in an art activity, a drama activity, and a music and singing activity, all of which related to the overarching theme of //lev tov//.

The following activity was done with all three of the age groups. The parent/teacher had pre-cut cardboard hearts from squares and had saved the squares (missing the hearts at their center) to use for “frames.” Each child painted a heart using bright colors to in some way illustrate an aspect of //lev tov// and each painted a frame in gold and silver paint. The heart done by one child was then placed in the frame done by another and all were placed together patchwork-quilt style to make a large poster to decorate the Rimmonim room. Examples of the things the children painted include: a pot of food with arrows going out in all directions, someone visiting a person lying in a bed, a young hand giving an old hand a bouquet of flowers, and a tzedakah box.
 * I. ART:**

Warm Ups for all ages: A: Hi! B: Hello. A: You all right? B: Yes. A: Are you sure? B: Yes, I’m sure. A little headache, that’s all. A: Oh good. You want some aspirin? B: No. Don’t be so helpful, OK? A: You are upset. B: Good grief! A: OK, OK. I thought you might want to talk. B: About what? A: About anything. B: I’m going away. A: What do you mean? B: I’m going away, that’s all. A: Where? B: Not far. Don’t get excited. A: When? B: Now. //[Starts to leave]// Taken from Acting One by Robert Cohen
 * II. DRAMA:**
 * Physical – stretching and shake-outs
 * Vocal – Unique New York, Big Black Bug
 * Mental – Discuss concept of //lev tov//
 * 5th- 7th grade:**
 * Contentless scenes
 * In pairs – create specific scenario with this script
 * Explain contentless scence/ subtext
 * How does this demonstrate //lev tov//? How does person A handle someone who is upset

· This is not a stick. o Use props to pantomime ways to demonstrate //lev tov// o Provides ideas for next activity · “I demonstrate //lev tov// when I __.” o In groups of 4, create skits to complete this sentence.
 * 2nd-4th grade:**


 * Preschool-1st grade:**

· This is not a stick. o Use props to pantomime ways to demonstrate //lev tov// o Cannot use object as what it really is. o Provides ideas for next activity · “I demonstrate //lev tov// when I__ .” o In groups of 4, create skits to complete this sentence.

Boker Tov / Good Morning (a cute song to introduce everyone and say good morning) Hinei Ma Tov Thanks God! (I had them jump up and down and then feel their heart beating fast. We talked for a moment about being thankful that our bodies work so well, then we sang this song based on the Asher Yatzar blessing thanking God for our bodies openings and vessels - n'kavim chalulim) Be a Mensch (a song about doing the right thing, thinking before we act, treating others with love and respect)
 * III. MUSIC/SINGING:**
 * Preschool-1st grade:**

Gesher Tzar Meod Mitzvah Goreret Mitzvah - (one good deed leads to another, etc.) B'tzelem Elohim - (opening your heart and allowing God's spark to come out) We played a music game where they had to come up with as many songs as they could that had the words "heart / lev" or "good/ tov" in them. They had a lot of fun with that. In their Friday night activity, they did a game with some quotes that were loosely related to lev tov, and I was going to come back to those concepts with music on Sunday. L'reacha kamocha Anachnu M'vorachim ("We are blessed with hearts to love each other") Hillel's Song (several of Hillel's teachings about doing good, making peace with others, "what is hateful to you, do not do to another", strive to be human, etc.
 * 2nd-4th grade:**
 * 5th-6th grade:**

(Please see attached sheet of photos of the art and drama activities.)