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Heritage
Family School Offers:
- Sunday classes for Torah and history study, cultural enrichment
classes (such as music, movement art), Shabbat experiences, Family celebrations,
life cycle event learning and celebrations and special programs. (Special events
may require additional fee.)
- Judaic classes are taught
in Russian, English and Hebrew. Additional Russian and Hebrew language learning
is incorporated into the program.
- Heritage Bar/Bat Mitzvah
program is 2 years minimum and offered for 10 - 13 years old students and their
families. It culminates with the Graduation Ceremony or Bar and Bat Mitzvah Ceremony.
Please see Bar/Bat
Mitzvah page for more information.
Learning
Torah TogetherShalom Sunday is bursting into activity in mid September,
right before the High Holiday season, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Picking up on
the theme of Simchat Torah, our focus this year will be on Torah lessons. We
will learn about the different parts of the Torah, what the job of a sofer is
and how the Torah is actually created. We will note that although we study Torah
in school, the Torah scroll is stored in a place of honor - the Holy Ark in the
synagogue. The Ner Tamid, or Eternal Light, is a symbol that the light of the
Torah will never go out! We are planning to initiate our Parshat Hashavua studies
of the weekly Torah stories on Simchat Torah, at the beginning of a new Torah
reading cycle. We will begin with the story of the Creation, culminating in a
discussion of Shabbat. This
will help set the stage for activities about Shabbat and all of the symbols and
ceremonies associated with this special day. We baked challah; made kiddush cups,
challah covers, and havdalah candles. After learning by doing, we invited parents
for grade level Shabbat celebrations. Bnei Mitzvah discussed the concept of this
famous proverb: "More than Israel has kept the Shabbat, the Shabbat has kept Israel."
We noted, that although our modern lives often downplay the importance of a "holy
day," observing Shabbat in some form is enriching to our lives, physically,
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