L'COVID YOU Issue 3

Le’covid Y u!

Read all about it!

Prijs’s fun crafts! Pg. 15 Parsha Treats! By Nosson Tzvi pg. 9 Smus’s activities!

Spot the difference! By Shifra N. And lots more......

Meet our famous Shochet on his travels!

Check it up on pg. 10 ISSUE 3 PARSHAS EMOR 14 IYAR 5780

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Dear Readers, What a surprise it has been to receive so many lovely articles, craft ideas, stories etc. Keep them coming! Check out the Parsha picture drawn by Yehudis Brocha - Professional!

Do you recognise the picture on the front page? Can you write us something little about your memories of that day for next week’s magazine?

We’d love to see how you celebrate Lag B’omer. Send us your pics.

Thank you Boruch Yechiel for being our editor this week (and hopefully in the future too). Motty is retiring from his job as his yeshiva is back to full time schedule, zoom style.

Happy reading.....

Aunty Cha

Letters to the editor: Dear editor, We all thank family ‫ ווייספיש‬and especially ‫ מוטי‬for putting together our magazine. It’s very interesting.

We learn new things about where everyone lives and how everyone does different things. We also enjoyed learning Hebrew. However something seems to be missed out. I got the magazine and I was looking for my page. I couldn’t see it so I asked my mother to check if anything else is still printing; she told me that there isn’t. I was a bit sad so please can you make sure that it goes in this week’s magazine.

Please can you also interview ‫’אבא‬s ‫שחיטה‬. We all want to know how Covid-19 has affected ‫שחיטה‬. Eg: did he shecht in new places? How do shochtim travel now?

Thank you Tzvi Yehuda Lewis

Dear editor I am really impressed at your very professional magazine. The graphics are beautiful and even nicer is that all the children from different families have been contributing such wonderful work.

Please carry on, we look forward to it every week.

Lots of love.

Aunty Tirza

Dear Editor, You can't imagine the pleasure I get with each edition of your distinguished magazine. There is always something new and interesting to learn and of course yizzy's jokes make me laugh aloud. Keep up the good work.

Oma Just

Please send all submissions for next week to lcovidyou@pweiss.co.uk by Thursday midday 2

HOW TO CONCENTRATE ON A CONFERENCE CALL "1. Go in a quiet room.

2. If you don’t know something about the lesson you should ask the teacher. If all the people are on mute and you can only ask at the end you should write it down.

3.No one else should be in the room.

4.You need to have whatever sefer you are learning from in front of you.

5. Nothing else should be on the table.

6. DO EXERCISE before you start 7. Don’t sit by the table before you start the actual learning – for example during register or the introduction.

8.Look inside the sefer and point.

9.If you are using a mobile phone put in headphones and it will be clearer.

10.Put a ball under your feet."

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Sausage and Mash AN ADDITION GAME Which adults remember this game? Shoshana asks.

Children, have a go at this old-fashioned game. Read the page below from the Cat in the Hat, replacing any word starting with an ‘s’ with ‘sausage’ and any with an ‘m’ with ‘mash’.

Have fun!

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ALL ABOUT SOLAR PANELS WE PANEL

CAR

AND

WERE TZVI

BUILDING YEHUDA

GENERATOR

A

SOLAR

MADE

FOR

ONE

ALSO

WITH

A

INDOORS

HOW DO SOLAR PANELS WORK?

YOU THE

SUN

IS

TURN

SHINING

WITHOUT

ELETRICITY

HAS

OF

LOTS

ABSORBED

ENERGY

BY

THE

ON OR

IT

GIVES

THE

INTO-) POWER

WHEELS

By: Boruch Lewis

AND

SO

THEN

BATTERIES.

AND

(-GOES

PANEL

TO

THAT THE

THE

POWER THE TO

CAR

SUN

FROM

SOLAR

DRIVES

SHINES. THE

PANEL.

SUN

IT IS

THAT

THE

TURN.

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Can you spot the differences between the two pictures there are 14 how many can you find

BY SHIFRA NUSSBAUM

THE POPPED SOCK BY: YITZI WEISFISH

Once there was a boy and he took a bottle because he did not have a ball for football. He kicked it and it was too good so he went to his bedroom and he got a sock. He took it down into his garden and then he filled sand into the sock. First he kicked it on the ground and then he started to kick it into the air with his leg. Then it popped and then it was a mess!

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PARSHA QUIZ What is the name of this week’s Parsha?

Who can a Kohein become tomei meis for?

How many Yomim Tovim are there in this week’s Parsha?

WHAT

ARE

THEY?

IS SHABBOS MENTIONED IN

WHAT

THIS

WAS

WEEK’S

THE

KORBON

PARSHA?

What Yom Tov do we have every week?

OIMER MATIR?

WHAT WHAT THE

WAS

KORBON

OIMER

MADE

WAS

THE

SHTEI

FROM?

HALECHEM WHAT THE

WAS

MATIR?

SHTEI

HALECHEM MADE

FROM?

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PARSHA ACTIVITY YOM TOV ACTIVITY In this week’s parsha it talks about the Yomim Tovim so I decided to make things to do with Yom Tov: A. Flower biscuits for Shevuos B. Marzipan Lulav and Esrog for Succos C. Silver-foil covered lechaim cups for 4 kosos

YOU WILL NEED SHEVUOS BISCUITS RECIPE

1 ¼ sticks of margarine 1 egg yolk 2 Tbsp of cold water ¾ cup of icing sugar

Fondant Icing Sugar Yellow food Colouring White Fondant Green Fondant Pink Fondant

2 cups of flour

Green food Colouring Marzipan

Method:

Red jelly/jello

Mix all ingredients except the flour in a mixer. When the ingredients are well mixed, add the flour. If the dough is too sticky add a bit more flour.

Roll the dough NOT too thin and not too thick. Shape the biscuits into circles, and bake on 300°. When the biscuits are ready, leave to cool. Roll

LULAV AND ESROG

Colour

the

yellow colouring making

marzipan

with

green

food

and and lulav

have and

fun esrog

shapes.

the fondant out flat. Cut out circles using the same cutter as the biscuits.

Mix some icing sugar with water to

ARBA KOSOS

make a paste and stick the fondant

Wrap disposable lechaim

circles on the biscuits. Make two leaves

cups in silver-foil and fill

out of green fondant and place on

with jelly/jello.

biscuit. Cut out little circles of pink fondant to make the petals and colour some

white

fondant

with

colouring to form the centre.

yellow

eisfish W i v z T n o s By: Nos

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An international shochet.

INTERVIEW Y U

We would like to thank ‫ רב אברהם ויספיש‬an international shochet for giving us a few minutes in his busy schedule, even though he has been working quite as much as usual now. We appreciate it very much. ‫ רב אברהם ויספיש‬has been to many a country and has shared some of his most interesting experiences with us.

LY: Hello ‫ רב אברהם ויספיש‬how long have you been a shochet for?

AW: 21 years.

LY: Who taught you how to shecht?

AW: R’ Dovid Acoca taught me to shecht ‫ עופות‬and Reb Yisroel Faigel kindly taught me how to shecht ‫ גסות‬.

LY: Which countries have you been to shecht ?

AW: I have been to Ireland, Italy, Holland, Bulgaria, UK and France.

I have shechted for Switzerland in St Louis as well as in Prague which is in the Czech Republic and Spain.

LY: What was the most interesting place you have been to?

AW: South Africa was the most interesting place I have been in terms of shechita, the kehillah and the country.

LY: What was your craziest story?

AW: Once I was asked to go to Bulagaria to do a shechita on a Thursday. I was given two options of airports to fly to, one in Rumania and one in Bulgaria. The ‫ סוחר‬told me both were about and hour and a half away from the place we were to shecht. My cleaning lady, Dani, just shook her head. She said that didn’t make sense. That should have been my first warning that things were not going to turn out that simple.

I chose to fly to Romania and after working all day Wednesday in the UK, I headed to the airport. The flight was uneventful and I arrived at about 11 o’clock at night in Romania. A yiddishe driver met me there with a Russian accent. Asking if he knows the way he said “keen, keen, ani yoodaiah” but soon I found out that he “lo yoodaiah”! We got in the car and sped off to the border of Bulgaria with the help of a GPS. Surprise, Surprise, as soon as we crossed the border the GPS no longer worked!

But “keen, keen, ani yoodaiah” tried to convince me he knows the way.

Being exhausted I fell asleep for the ‘short drive’. About an hour into the drive, I was awakened by our dear driver making a u-turn on the motorway! Falling asleep again, I woke up about an hour later again by the driver doing another u-turn! This was happening every half to one hour until eventually at four o’clock in the morning, we arrived at the village, too late to go to the hotel as shechita was meant to begin at 4.30 a.m! Lots of goyim were standing in the streets waiting for transport to work (at 4.00 in the morning) and recognised who we were coming for.

With sign language, they

directed us to the factory/abbatoir.

Too scared to have my purse stolen, I left it in the driver’s glove compartment. Off to shecht I went, taking my passport with me. At about 12 o’clock lunch time we finished and it was time to head to the airport, this time Sofia, Bulgaria. That’s when I made a discovery. The driver had taken the Rov back to Romania with my purse and my shechting license inside his car, which I needed for Monday in Ireland! I had only my passport and not a penny. The ‫סוחר‬ lent me 100 Euro which he said was plenty for a taxi to the airport and to get me home. He ordered a taxi for me – which cost me 80 Euro! Arriving in Birmingham at almost 11 o’clock at night I discovered that the last train was leaving very soon. I had seen that it costs £10 to take a train to Manchester – I could just about make it. The money exchange at the airport was just about to close when I came along with my 20 Euro. They said it costs £9 just for changing. With no choice, I took whatever I got and ran to the train without a ticket. Too exhausted to move, I sat down. Please note that I

had worked all Wednesday, travelled all Wednesday evening and worked from 4:30 a.m. on Thursday!

Along came the conductor half way through the journey.

Explaining my predicament, I offered him all I had.

Unfortunately, buying a ticket in advance costs £10 but on the day or on the train cost £30! He was very kind and said that from the place we were at till Manchester costs £10 so he would accept it.

Boruch Hashem. I took a taxi from Piccadilly Station and paid when I got home! Phew.

Now I needed to get my purse back urgently so that I could fly Monday with my European license. The “ani yoodaiah” driver had remembered (BH) that my purse was in the glove compartment and gave it to the Rov who was travelling home to Amsterdam. We tried to get it by courier but UPS and other couriers wanted about £170!

Meanwhile, the Rov went to Shul and met someone who mentioned that they were off to Manchester. My purse arrived before Shabbos!

LY: Who gave you ‫? קבלה‬ Aw: First Dayan Lichtenstein from the kollel including Dayan Gelley and Dayan Toledano. Then I got a ‫ קבלה‬from the Rosh Kollel ‫הרב‬ ‫ מדרכי וייס‬who was recently niftar from coronavirus; also Rav Mordche Gross, Rabbi Zimmerman, Dayan Ehrentreu and the Rabanut (which resulted in me being able to shecht Ireland because they need someone who has a British slaughter license and a ‫ קבלה‬from Rabanut).

LY: Which country do you still want to visit?

Aw: Australia.

LY: Why? Aw: Because when they do lamb, they have a special pen so that they can do 12 lambs at a time instead of one. It is also one of the continents I haven’t been to. The only other continent I have not been to is south America although I have been asked to go there. However, I wouldn’t want to go there for 3 months at a time like Israeli shochtim.

LY: Who pays for your travel expenses?

Aw: The kashrus that is hiring me at

the time must pay my travel expenses including Hotels and taxis and should provide me with food (though this doesn’t always happen).

LY: Which kinds of slaughtering licence do you need?

I need a licence from the government via the chief rabbi which is reviewed each year and is specifically for the communities I am shechting for and I need a licence from the FSA (food standard agency) I have to have a course in food hygiene.

LY: Do any of your children want to become shochtim?

Yes, my son Eli weisfish wants to become a shochet and he has already started to learn how to do ‫ בדיקות‬and is learning the ‫הלכות‬. He likes to sign his name ‫אלאזר מנחם מן ויספיש שו''ב (שוחט‬ ) ‫ובודק‬.Shmully has been learning how to check chalofim and has performed this publicly, at school.

LY: What was the most interesting animal you have shechted?

I went to Prague twice to shecht deer.

LY: Where in Prague?

We did it on a deer farm outside in the open. It was a family business, with all the members of the family helping out.

LY: Who wanted deer?

A woman doctor in London organised it.

LY: Why? Because it is very healthy meat and tastes delicious. They charged about £60 for a portion of meat in the restaurant in Golders Green.

LY: Did you get any?

Yes I got some cheeks but there was a misunderstanding and they ended up in the cholent and it tasted of ……………… cholent! Surprise, Surprise!

LY: What was your scariest experience?

I was once shechting bulls and the man who was meant to press the raise button pressed the release button and the bull chased me and cornered me but b”h there was a big window with a bin on the other side and I jumped in it and was BH safe.

Tell me please about the time you got five flight tickets in one day!

Aah! That’s another long story! Maybe next week!

LY: Thank you for your time.

Family Prijs’s Fun Page Photo Frames: Using Hama beads, place beads on the outer rows of the shape. Stick a photo behind.

Voila! You have made your own photo frame!

Shabbos treats: Melt chocolate in a bowl. Dip half side of pretzels into chocolate. You can then dip it in sprinkles for an extra treat!

Make a homemade postcard: Cut out card the size of a postcard. Draw a picture or stick a photo on one side. Stickers are fun too!

On the other side write a letter to someone you know will appreciate your handiwork!

Enjoy!

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We have a non Jewish neighbour whose business is to sell vans. During the corona virus people are not buying extra things so he does not have business and can’t buy his children food. He found a bike shop and he bought loads of bikes and he is selling them now. The makes that he bought are correro, giant, scott, cube and raleigh. He has sold a lot of bikes now. Nearly every day he comes back with loads of bikes. We enjoy watching people coming to test bikes. Sometimes people come and say the brakes don’t work, the next person comes and says the gears don’t work, and that is how it goes every day.

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‫פרשת אמור‬

Mother

Father

‫שבעה‬ ‫קרובים‬-

son daughter

brother

unmarried sister

wife

these are the seven relations which a cohein may become impure by their deaths & burial

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Family Smus in Colour

THIS WAS A WHOLE LOT HARDER THAN IT LOOKS

drying off SHLOIME JUST LOVED THIS

look at me!! I climbed up all by myself!!

getting hungry now...

coming along...