BH. Tishrei
8, 5775 / Oct 2, 2014
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 6:15 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 7:14 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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Dr. Bernard Teitelman on his 9th Yartzeit on Yom-Kippur
By Joyce and the Teitelman and Lew Families
THE TRUGMANS AT MHDS
ZUCKERMAN CONDOLENCES
Rabbi Avraham and Rachel Trugman brought a taste of Israel, Gematria and melody to our students this Wednesday. Mrs. Trugman told the story of their arrival at Mevo Modiin the Carlebach Moshav nearly 40 years ago, as one of the Moshav’s first 7 families. They used machetes to cut weeds, toiled to cultivate rocky soil and plant orchards of avocados and fields of flowers. Over the years they welcomed thousands of guests & visitors for Carlebach Moshav Shabbos experience. Rabbi Trugman played songs on his dulcimer (a string instrument) including Shlomo Carlebach’s “Yachad” because of our school’s sitting Yachad -together and because its from the Musaf Kedusha which was a topic of his talk. He discussed with our students what holiness means, and some things that are considered holy (Shabbos, the land of Israel, Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Hebrew language). He also played Ki Va Moed & uVneh Yerushalayim. He shared an Eretz-Yisrael related Gematria from daily davening that he learned from Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and thinks about every time he says those words. He shared a story of his teacher Reb Shlomo Carlebach, a lost soul on the Subway and the Lubavitcher Rebbe from the early years. He also shared a feeling from R’ Shlomo about walking about in the land of Israel. Our 3/4 grade students were especially participatory, answering Rabbi Trugman’s questions and sometimes, as he put it, being one step ahead! This talk at Maimonides was on Rabbi Trugman’s father’s yartzeit and dedicated in his memory.
Condolences to Mr. Gordon Zuckerman and family of Schenectady on the passing of his wife Linda, who was a professor of Business Education at SUNY Adirondack for 45 years! The Zuckermans have been active in many communal organizations and causes, and “Gordy” was honored in 1997 at the Maimonides School Annual Dinner.
ARE YOU PUZZLED? Adults can be puzzled, too, but there’s a lot we can learn from these eager, determined, capable & positive Kindergarten boys who just take it one piece at a time, until it all comes together.
LIKE CLAY IN POTTER’S HANDS Morah Rochel’s students learned the stanzas of the Ki Hinei KaChomer poem from Kol Nidrei/Maariv on Yom Kippur that uses hands DIVE INTO A SEA OF BOOKS Nursery students this week explored a big shelf -on occupations (a potter, a glassblower, a of richly illustrated books on oceans, fish and blacksmith and silversmith, a sailor with an anchor etc) to show how “we are in Hashem’s whales as they studied a unit on Jonah from hands”. Each student created powerpoint the Yom Kippur Haftorah. slides depicting this poem with visuals.
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