{"id":239,"date":"2010-10-03T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/10\/parsha-for-kids-got-any-leads.html"},"modified":"2010-10-03T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T19:10:50","slug":"parsha-for-kids-got-any-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/10\/parsha-for-kids-got-any-leads.html","title":{"rendered":"Parsha for kids – got any leads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year at Simchat Torah, we start reading the Torah from the beginning, once again. Of course, when I say “we” I’m not referring to myself. While learning, especially Torah learning, is probably the part of Judaism that’s the most spiritually meaningful to me, I haven’t incorporated Torah study, or even a little bit of table talk about the weekly parsha, into our lives. A few times during the year I think, oh, we’ll start next Simchat Torah. And then I forget.<\/p>\n

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Well, last week, I didn’t forget. But I did catch myself a bit unprepared. At my mother’s new apartment in Baltimore, where the books, including chumashim, are still taped up in floor-to-ceiling towers of boxes, I didn’t know where to turn to get some material to guide our first parsha talk. Fortunately, I had the URJ book Torah Alive<\/a> with me, because I’m using it to help prepare for my Kindergarten teaching, so I drew from that to tell the stor(ies) of creation of the world and of Adam and Eve.<\/div>\n
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Now I’m looking for some resources to make a weekly parsha conversation really easy. A book I can open, or a website I can print out from. Sounds simple, right? Well, it appears I’m kind of high maintenance in this department. First of all, I need something that assumes no prior knowledge on the part of my kids. Second, I need material geared for a five year old with a five-year-old’s attention span. I want something true to the original text, not full of midrashim peppered in without explanation. And I definitely don’t want it full of cutesy won’t-kids-think-this-is-a-riot language. (Torah Tots<\/a>, for example. starts this weeks parsha like this: <\/div>\n

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How do we know that they played baseball during creation?<\/i><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Because it says “In The ‘Big Inning’ <\/i><\/font>Hashem<\/i><\/font> created the heavens and the earth.”<\/i><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Not my cup of tea, shall we say. Also, I don’t want a video or podcast, and I don’t need printable coloring pages, mazes or dot to dots. (Unless they are of leprosy. Those I want.)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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So, dear, readers, what have you got for me? <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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