L'Covid You Issue 5

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Flower crafting for Shavuos Mystery of the lost Tzitzis Oma’s Gardening More of the international Shoichet

Issue 5 22nd June 20 ‫פרשת במדבר‬

‫מדבר סיני‬

Dear readers, Well done to all of you who sent in more things for the magazine! It's the fifth week now and the articles are still coming in. Thank you, everyone. We would like to welcome family Marcus this week to our magazine.

With thoughts for ‫שבועות‬, there are some lovely crafts ideas - check them out and send us pictures of anything you try! Looking forward to hearing from you all.

We will endeavour to make a ‫ שבועות‬magazine so please send your things in by Tuesday.

Happy homeschooling and cooking to all the mummies!

Keep up the good work!

Aunty Cha

Letters to the editor: Dear Editor, Dear Editor,

I can’t thank aunty Chavi enough for starting off this magazine. First of all, it is giving some young ( and older, and much older ) people something to do in their spare ( and not so spare) time. But much more important, it is getting the whole family together. That absolutely yummy picture of Boruch and Esther’s little one in the cupboard (Names please, I lost it after Shimi and Malky) , and the wonderful bonfires on Lag B’omer with bows and arrows. As for the Broughton Epsteins_ well kudos to you for being so forward thinking as to start your succah now. Iyh you should be ‫ זוכה‬to use it this first year in Eretz Yisroel together with us all and ‫משיח‬. Hope you are making it big enough. If we will iy’h all be in ‫ירושלים‬, we will want a family reunion in it!

As for in London, it has been quite a humdrum week.

Nothing special really happened apart from Shifra baking a few cheesecakes (in the freezer- sorry no tasting) and we bought some puzzler books including some sudokus, and a few pencils with rubber tips. Lots of fun. I therefore decided I will make a couple of puzzles.

Aunty Tirtza

We really enjoyed making the chocolate pretzels from family Prijs's fun page. Look at our pictures

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THE ULTIMATE STORIES OF

THE INTERNATIONAL SHOCHET CONTINUED...

By Aunty Chavi

When I began shechting in Ireland, the Dayan involved in that Shechita needed to see me shechting ‫( דקות‬lamb) so he came with on one of my first trips. The importer was also coming so we travelled together. (This reminds me of another story I will relate soon). The Dayan had lived a long time in England as did the importer. We checked in together and so the Dayan pulled out his foreign passport and the importer his Israeli one. I then pulled out my British one which I had made not that long before and their eyes opened wide. Of all three, I was the one with a British Passport!

Our flight was uneventful and we made our way to the hotel, about an hour away. We got there about 11 o’clock at night (which by now you will know is a usual time for me) and the receptionist handed us each a card for the room. Off we went and made up to meet at six in the morning in the lobby. What a surprise I had when I opened the door to my room.

There was a large four-poster bed in the middle of the room with a canopy on top. A bath was set in the middle of the bathroom and there was a private Jacuzzi. I was flabbergasted! I could see that this importer (who booked the rooms and the shechita) really appreciated shochtim and their role. I enjoyed the jacuzzi and then went to bed.

Six o’clock found me in the lobby all on my own. The receptionist told me that the Rabbi had gone to a different hotel. It didn’t make sense to me but she reassured me that it was true, so I decided to wait outside for him and true to her word, the Dayan rolled up in a black chauffeured Mercedes. I was so surprised and confused and I asked the Dayan what happened. He told me that he got an awful room that was so small you couldn’t swing a cat and besides, it was dirty and smelly! He refused to sleep there and went to a different hotel. My assumptions about the importer’s view of my role as a shochet dropped a few notches! The receptionist had obviously made a mistake last night when handing out the cards!!!

And here for the ‘together’ story: I was shechting in Ireland with two choshuve Israeli shochtim who could not speak a word of English besides yes and no and count to ten. They wanted to sit together in the airplane and asked me how to say that in English. I told them to point to themselves and say ‘together’.

This worked very well each week and

they happily travelled to Eretz Yisroel sitting next to each other each time. One day, however, a third Israeli shochet came and they travelled home together.

Being experienced already, they came to the airport with the intention of sitting near each other So they asked to be placed……threegether!

We want to sit threegether...

Now on a serious note. When living in London, I travelled once with Dayan Westheim zt”l from the abattoir in Ireland to Dublin airport. This was the first time I met him (he came to see me shechting).

He was falling asleep whilst I was talking to him. He duly apologised and explained that he found it hard to learn when travelling so he stayed up most of the night before learning to make up for the next day!

How to Make a Puzzle

By Yitzi Weisfish 1. Sort out all the pieces. Put the flat pieces into a bag or into a pile.

2. Find the corner pieces and put them in the right places.

3. Make the outside of the puzzle with the side pieces.

4. Put the rest of the pieces into the outside pieces.

5. Well done!

The missing tzitzis I usually get up early and then daven so that I catch first ‫סוף זמן קריאת שמע‬.

On Tuesday i came to where I put my tzitzis in the night and I couldn`t find them. I searched for a few minutes upstairs downstairs but I couldn`t find them. I saw it was geting late so I took my father’s tzitzis and put them over my shirt and davened.

When I was nearly finished davening one of my brothers {he dosn`t want me to write his name} came to me and showed me my tzitzis in his hand. After I finished I asked him where he found them, he told me...he woke up wearing my tzitzis.

Shmuly LewiS

SHAVUOS FLOWER CRAFTING Carnations What you need: tissue paper, kebab sticks, green electrical tape 1. Draw circles around a glass on tissue paper 2. Cut out as many circles as you can 3. Poke the kebab stick through the middle of 10-15 circles 4. Lift up each circle, one at a time, and squish it onto the kebab stick (a bit like how your Mummy always tells you NOT to squish the serviettes, squish them exactly like that!)

5. Wrap the tape up around the stick until the top, covering the bottom 1/3cm of the flower 6. Gently un-squish each petal and fluff the flower up.

Daffodils What you need: egg tray, yellow and orange paint, yellow card, green plant sticks, PVA glue, sellotape 1. Paint the inside of the egg tray orange 2. Paint the outside of the egg tray yellow and leave to dry 3. Cut a daffodil shape out of yellow card 4. Once the egg tray is dry, cut out each individual cup

5. Stick the egg cup onto the middle of the yellow flower shape with PVA glue 6. Once it is dry, tape the plant stick to the back of the flower.

Daisies What you need: toilet rolls, pomp poms, pva glue, sellotape (optional: white labels) 1. Cut the toilet roll in half lengthways 2. Stick each roll back together to make 2 skinny rolls 3. Cut each roll into thin ‘slices’ 4. Stick a pom pom on a coloured paper 5. Shape the petal ‘slices’ as you wish (see picture), by pinching and pushing 6. Dip each petal into glue and stick on the paper around the pom pom.

Optional: to make the petals white, cover the toilet roll with labels. You can even decorate the labels first for fun effects!

Feel free to cut around the flowers and stick on a stem according to no. 6 on the daffodil page.

s r e w o l F t r A d n a S FOR KIDS

#01

SAND ART Colour salt with chalk and layer in a seethrough container/cup

#02

PIPE CLEANER FLOWER 1 Cross over three pipe cleaners as shown. Twist in the centre so that they become attached.

#03

#04

PETALS

STEM

Roll each stick towards the centre as shown

Poke a pipe cleaner through the centre and roll.

#05 LEAVES

roll leavs and make pointy. attach to stem.

#04 STEM

Poke a pipe cleaner through the centre and roll.

Have fun making other flowers. Place in sand and cover in PVA. Allow to dry.

The clapping in Wellington st. West Every week Thursday at 8:00 the whole Wellington Street West comes out and starts clapping for the NHS. Opposite us we have a neigbor; we call him ‘Number 1’ because he lives in house number 1.

Every night he makes a barbecue and by the clapping, Number 1 takes his barbecue lid and spoon and smashes them together and starts clapping. Everyone starts laughing. Then number 5 comes – an older couple – the man has a trumpet and his wife has a pot with a spoon. The husband plays the trumpet and his wife bangs along with her pot and spoon. The Romanian family at Number 8 clap and shout, “tomoorrow no more veerus”.

All the Chassidim with their Tzitzis on top of ther shirts are out clapping together with all the children. One week a Chossid drove past on his car. He found it so funny that he hooted just to join in the fun. Everyone shouted even louder. Then when everyone stopped, everything was quiet for one second .... and then we heard... a neighbour blow the Shofar!

By: Tzvi Yehuda Lewis

H O M O P H O N E C H A L L E N G E SUBMISSIONS BY FAMILY LEWIS

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Wordsearch

1) The mazal of sivan is ____________?

2) There are__________ days of rosh chodesh sivan?

3) There are __________days between rosh chodesh and shavuos?

4) In eretz Yisroel they don’t say tachanun for ___”_____ days after rosh chodesh?

5) In chutz la’aretz we don’t say tachanun for _________ days?

6) On the ______ day of sivan it starts the 3 days of the hagbala.

7) There is 1 other name for shavu’os besides for shavu’os, chag hakotzir and yom habicurim?

8) Shavu’os is one of the _________?

9) What kind of green don’t we put in the shul?

10) Before leining we read ________?

BY SHMULLY WEISFISH

MILKY SCHWARTZWALD A family tradition for Shevuos

PROCEDURE INGREDIENTS

Mix all ingredients together and

2 cups flour 3/4Â cup cocoa powder 1 3/4 cups sugar

01

1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

bake on 350 degrees

Remove cupcakes from paper.

02

2 teaspoons baking powder

Cut off top and spread cream.

Return lid.

1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon coffee diluted in 1 cup water additional cup of water 2 eggs 1/2 cup oil

Put cream around bottom half of 03

cake and then roll in chocolate sprinkles.

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Spread cream on top. Pipe 04

flowers along the edge and put a cherry in the middle. Voila!

CREAM HORNS EASY FOR KIDS TO MAKE

BY AUNTY CHA

1

2

Cut out quarter circles from a

Cut strips of puff pastry across the

disposable tinfoil container.

width.

3

Wrap around the horn at an angle.

4

Egg and bake as per package instruction. When cooled dip in chocolae.

Pipe with cream! Naughty but nice!

PARSHA ACTIVITY

BY YEHUDIS BROCHA NUSSBAUM

painting spot our tongues!

Har Sinai cupcake - Aunty Cha

SCUBA DIVING WEISFISH STYLE (OLD HOOVER HOSE)

PLEASE EAT YOUR FRUIT!

Esther getting

Go kiddies - go!

des[erate?!

Smus' finished product - note our yellow brick mishkan

Aunty Cha's creations

Photos From England

Photos From Around the world

Austria Memories

Kindly Collated by Shloimy Lewis