Chukat | חוקת | “Statute”

Chukat | חוקת | “Statute”

Torah Portion:
   

Num 19-22:1;

HafTorah:  Judges 11:1-33

Brit Chadashah:  1 John 3:9-21, 4:3-30; 12:27-50; 1 Cor 1:20-31

Gospel reading: Matthew 21:1-17

Num 19:1-2 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying, (2) “This is a law of the Torah which יהוה has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come.

Num 19:1-2 וידבר יהוה אל־משׁה ואל־אהרן לאמר׃ (2) זאת חקת התורה אשׁר־צוה יהוה לאמר דבר אל־בני ישׂראל ויקחו אליך פרה אדמה תמימה אשׁר אין־בה מום אשׁר לא־עלה עליה על׃

Transliteration:  Va-y'daber יהוה el Moshe v'el-Aharon lemor zot chukat ha- torah asher tsiva יהוה lemor daber el'b'nei Yisrael c'yikchu eleicha farah adumah t'mimah asher ein-bahh moom asher  lo-alah aleiha'ol

The main focus  on this Torah portion  is:

• the red heifer and the laws of purification.  
• Moses was told to speak to the rock and instead he hit the rock and Moses was punished for this and was not aloud to lead the people in to  the land. 
• Aaron died at mount Hor and the people mourned 30 days.
• the people complained against God and Moses. God sent snakes to kill the people, the people repented and Moses was told to make a staff with a serpent out of bronze and anyone who had been bitten had only to look at  the staff and they lived. 

A good overview of the torah portion can be found  here or kid parasha that is easy to understand here 

The Ten questions of the torah portion:

1.       What is the color of the special cow in this week’s Torah portion?

Red (19:2).

2.       What else is special about this cow?

The cow has no spots and has never been used for working the fields (19:2).

3.       What is the purpose of this red cow?

To help purify anyone who has become Tameh (contaminated) (19:9).

4.       Where did Miriam Die?

Kadesh (20:1).

5.       What happened when Miriam died?

There was no more water (20:2).

6.       What was Moses supposed to do to get more water?

Take his staff and TALK to the rock and ask it to give water (20:8).

7.       What did Moses really do?

He hit the rock with his staff twice (20:10).

8.       What was Moses and Aaron's punishment for not listening to God’s instructions?       

They were not allowed to enter Israel (20:12)

9.   What happened when Israel complained again? How did Hashem punish them?

He sent fiery serpents to bite the congregation (21:6)

10. What did Moses make to help save Bnei Israel?

A copper serpent. Anyone who was bitten by a serpent could look at the copper serpent and recover (21:9).

Copy work or worksheet for the torah portion:


http://api.ning.com/files/HiABn9wre8rwXItzq3p0yhzkhhYAp7d62UzaNdeRnqjEKB5WaThDDtEPxbC6fx-Af99qJFsjdoAnghRhJrkt6gKC3cRuMcoQ/ChukatKids.pdf


http://www.4shared.com/document/CzEWRV7W/Copywork_Parshas_Chukas.html
Again you have to sign up then just download it. it is the torah portion hebrew worksheet.


http://api.ning.com/files/RMy9ji2xMifzT0NPF6wi-KyHifg5E6NIXKaSlX0rtiA4JWhV1UkpR6mqISSnlbuQV0mkBR5m-lpQ3z3-7X621xOGWksCF9qS/Curr042.pdf

Torah Hebrew word study
This also includes the brit hadasha reading.

http://ronypony.blogspot.com/2012/06/short-parsha-riddles-chukas.html

Coloring pages for the Torah portion:

1. Aish.com
2. Torah Tots

 Kid's crafts to go with Torah Portion

After discussing this story, it is fun to make the poisonous snakes and/or the copper snake.

This week’s Parsha, Parshat Chukat, includes a very enigmatic episode:

And G-d sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the nation, and many perished of the people of Israel. And the people came to Moshe, and they said, “we have sinned, because we spoke against G-d and against you; pray to G-d that He take away from us the snakes.” And Moshe prayed on behalf of the nation. And G-d said to Moshe, “make for yourself a snake and put it on a pole, and it will be that anyone bitten will see it, and live.” And Moshe made a copper snake (nachash nechoshet), and set it on a high pole, and it was that if a snake bit a man, and he stared at the copper snake, that he lived.  Numbers 21:6-9

Materials needed:

Paper plate (or construction or cardstock paper)
Paint or markers
Scissors
Googly Eyes
Red felt

Instructions:

1)   Paint the plate either green or copper. Let it dry. 

2)   Cut out the spiral from the outside-in.

3)   Glue on googly eyes and red tongue.

4)   Add other decorations and designs, using markers or cut-outs.

5)   Make a hole at the top and put a string to hang your snake/s.

Emily Shapiro Katz has been a community Jewish educator for over ten years in Jerusalem, Atlanta, and San Francisco. This summer, she will move to Beer Sheva with her husband, Andy, and daughters Maya, age 5 and Avital, age 2. Her contributions to this website reflect her interest in teaching Tanach, doing craft projects, and entertaining her kids. Emily blogs about her Parsha Projects at http://parshaprojects.blogspot.com/

Korach | קורח | “Korah”

This Week's Torah Portion: Korach- Korah

TaNak: Numbers 16: 1-18:32

Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14-12:22

Brit Chadashah: 2 Timothy 2:8-21

ויקח קרח בן־יצהר בן־קהת בן־לוי ודתן ואבירם בני אליאב ואון בן־פלת בני ראובן׃

The main themes of this torah portion are:

Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On took men and rose up before Moshe with a number of the people of Israel (250 chiefs of the congregation; well-known men). They assembled together 

against Moshe and Aharon and said, "You have gone too far! Everyone here is holy and the 

LORD is among them. Why do you set yourself above the assembly of Yahweh?" When Moshe 

heard them, he fell on his face and said to Korah and the others, "In the morning, Yahweh will 

show who is his, who is holy, and will bring him near to him." Moshe instructed Korah and his 

company to take censers and put incense on them before Yahweh the next day. Dathan and 

Abiram were mad a Moshe and they refused to come up. Moshe asked Yahweh not to respect 

their offerings. Every man took his censer and put fire in it and laid the incense on them and 

stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting. The glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. Then Moshe took the people away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. The 

ground split apart and the earth swallowed up the wicked men, their households, and all that 

belonged to them. Fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering incense 

to Yahweh. Eleazar took the censers and hammered them out as a covering for the altar. Yahweh said only Aharon's descendants could burn incense before him. The next day, the people 

began to complain again. A plague had begun among the people because 

of their complaining. 14, 700 people died in the plague. Yahweh instructed 

the people to get the 12 tribe's staffs and write their names on their staff 

and Aharon's name on the staff of Levi. Aaron's staff sprouted and put forth 

buds and blossoms and bore ripe almonds. They looked at their staffs.  

Yahweh reminded the people of the duties of the priests and Levites.  

Copy work from MAMALAND:

http://www.4shared.com/document/8F1F-niw/Copywork_Parshas_Korach.html

you have to download it. it is a pdf file.  she does a really good job.
http://ronypony.blogspot.ca/2010/10/miscellaneous-hebrewenglish-copywork.html#parsha

Worksheets for the torah portion:

http://cohencubs.ning.com/group/weeklyparshat/forum/topics/korach-korah-1

http://messianicfamilyfellowship.com/GO/torah-portion/parsha-for-kids/

Coloring pages for younger kids:

http://media.aish.com/documents/Coloring%20Book%20-%20Parshat%20Korach%20(English).pdf

Parasha for Young kids:

http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/bamidbar/korach3.htm

Crafts for kids:

http://www.challahcrumbs.com/parshaCrafts_Torah%20Study.php?artId=75

http://ronypony.blogspot.com/2012/06/easy-parsha-craft-for-korach.html


Recipe ideas:

In this week’s Torah reading, Parshat Korach, God commands each tribe to provide a rod and only the tribe chosen to become the priests would miraculously sprout overnight. Only Aaron’s rod, representing the tribe of Levi, “put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.” (Bamidbar 17:8). (According to this Torah Treat, some rods remained simple while the others sprouted different colors!)

You will need:

Pretzel rods

Chocolate for melting

Flowered shaped sprinkles

Other sprinkles are optional

Melt chocolate and dip into chocolate.  Let your kids have fun decorating!

Shelach | שלח | “Send”

Torah Portion:
  Shelach- Send Forth- 

Numbers 13:1-15:41;


HafTorah:

Joshua 2:1-24;

Brit Chadashah:

Hebrews 3:7-19

The main focus  on this Torah portion  is:

Joshua and Caleb reporting  that the land was good and if YHVH wants them to have the land than  they will be able to get it. 

The Sabbath Breaker and the punishment that he received.

the Tzit-Tzit commandment

also take time to go over the different offerings.......

To Learn about the portion:  http://ning.it/Lod9LN

Copy work :Shelach copy work

Crafts or activity ideas for this torah portion:

Josh and Caleb: Ask the Question what made Josh and Caleb right and what made the other's wrong?
why did the other's lie?
What was Josh and Caleb's reward?

Draw a picture of  the things that they found in the land that YHVH promised them
then draw a picture of all the different scary things that the spies saw!!!



Sabbath breaker: 
This is a perfect opportunity to go over the rules of sabbath with the kids and write them down or draw them.

craft Idea: take a rock and have the kids write on it I will not break sabbath
this can serve as a reminder that we can be punished for WILLFUL SIN and we need to be careful.



The Offerings: there are so many offerings it might be fun to draw the offerings and keep them in a binder. that way you have a book of all the offerings that we are supposed to do.

Tzit-Tzit:

Make tzit tzits with your kids so that they can  know what to do!!!

These are just some of the ways to do it. This is not how we do it so I will try to post pics of what we do on my blog walk in torah and I will link on here when I do.  but I do think it is important for any learning that you should make your own descision on how you do things like this like this with so many options it also might be a good lesson for the kids on different ways people do this and ask them which way they like the best.

Tzitzit custom
It is a positive commandment to put tzitzit on any four cornered garment that you wear, as it says in Numbers 15:37-41:
The Lord said to Moses as follows: Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner. That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all the commandments of the Lord and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your lustful urge. Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God. I the Lord am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, the Lord your God.
How to tie tzitzit: ritual macrame
"And you should see it and remember all of God's commandments and do them".