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CALL THE CHDS PARSHA HOTLINE! WIN A $10 Kinneret Giſt Cerficate! Congratulaons to Tzipi Motzen, last weeks winner. Youre famous now. Thank you to last weeks 31 callers. This weeks queson: What is in our Parsha that is read on the Shabbos before Purim? Call 513-202-6172 and leave a message with your answer. Anyone can play. Even your great aunt. Parents/ siblings can help someone find the answer. 1 person per call, drawing Sunday at 1:00. Hatzlacha!! **SAY YOUR NAME, THEN YOUR ANSWER SO WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE…* SNAPSHOT How are you feeling today? As part of the Creative Curriculum, Morah Barbara’s class has been learning about emotions. The Question of the Day has been centered on emotions. “Have you ever been sad?” and “Were you ever scared?” are topics of discussion. This helps students learn how to recognize their own feelings, understand why they are feeling them, and express themselves appropriately. As part of the experience, Morah Barbara created this poster to capture the students’ work and to use as a springboard for further discussion. Thank you to Morah Mushki Kaplan for taking the pictures. בס"ד13 Elul 5779 | Friday, September 13, 2019| Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei | Candle lighting 7:2 9pm (20 minutes) [email protected] MARK YOUR CALENDAR Sept. 29 No Sunday School Sept. 30 Rosh Hashana, no school Oct. 1 Rosh Hashana, no school Oct. 2 Tzom Gedalya, Late start 10:00am, MS Dismissal 12PM MAZEL TOV To the Mandel family on the birth of a boy To Leib Katz and family on his Bar Mitzvah To Yitzchok Toron, son of R’ Moshe & Rivka Toron, on his engagement to Sarah Simon. To the Middle School Boys who successfully completed the B’Rina Yiktzoru program and earned a compact Shas set. **Someone won the Mishmar raffle this week. See if you can find his name hidden in this newsletter.** THANK YOU To Mrs. Shternie Levy for teaching the 4th Grade girls for the beginning of school. WELCOME To Mrs. Gitty Crystal, our new 4th grade Morah, who starts on Monday. We wish you and your family tremendous hatzlacha. Impossible - and Guaranteed The more Gemara you learn, the more cases you see discussed that seem to have no praccal applicaon, and yet much me and discussion is devoted to these cases. Obscure scenarios are discussed, presumably for the benefit of having an answer for a highly unlikely situaon. However, for the Ben Sorrer Umoreh, the wayward and rebellious son in this weeks parsha who receives the death penalty, the Gemara makes a point of telling us that this case will never happen. This is a classic example of a moment in ones learning where one might be tempted to ask, whats the point of learning this?Of course, every bit of the Torah contains something to learn; the more confusing something is on the surface, the more there is to learn by digging a lile deeper. The Gemara offers clues to a possible lesson. There is a list of condions for a wayward child to be defined as an actual Ben Sorrer Umoreh. The parents, according to the Gemara, must have the same voice, the same appearance, and they must be the same height. What does this mean? The Baalei Mussar explain as follows: The same voice refers to the noon that parents must form a unified front in raising their child. The same appearance means that what the parents do in pracce must match the values that they are teaching their child. The same height means that the parents must be together in their mutual understanding of the goals that they set for their child. How can the Gemara be so sure that there will never be a Ben Sorrer Umoreh? Because the condions above all but guarantee the product. If parents form a unified front, a good, consistent example, and shared goals, the end result is not going to be a Ben Sorrer Umoreh. As a school, we are humbled at the noon that we partake in the parenng of your child. At Open House this week, parents and teachers made some of the first steps towards following the Gemaras formula. When parents and school form a unified front, when personal example is a shared experience, and when goals are set and agreed upon, our children thrive and grow. Together, may we share this responsibility and see it through to fruion. Have a wonderful Shabbos, Rabbi Yitzchok Goldstein Yosef Sollofe

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CALL THE CHDS PARSHA HOTLINE! WIN A $10 Kinneret Gift Certificate! Congratulations to Tzipi Motzen, last week’s winner. You’re famous now. Thank you to last week’s 31 callers.

This week’s question: What is in our Parsha that is read on the Shabbos before Purim?

Call 513-202-6172 and leave a message with your answer. Anyone can play. Even your great aunt. Parents/siblings can help someone find the answer. 1 person per call, drawing Sunday at 1:00. Hatzlacha!! **SAY YOUR NAME, THEN YOUR ANSWER SO WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE…*

SNAPSHOT

How are you feeling today? As part of the Creative Curriculum, Morah Barbara’s class has been learning about emotions. The Question of the Day has been centered on emotions. “Have you ever been sad?” and “Were you ever scared?” are topics of discussion. This helps students learn how to recognize their own feelings, understand why they are feeling them, and express themselves appropriately. As part of the experience, Morah Barbara created this poster to capture the students’ work and to use as a springboard for further discussion. Thank you to Morah Mushki Kaplan for taking the pictures.

בס"ד

13 Elul 5779 | Friday, September 13, 2019| Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei | Candle lighting 7:29pm (20 minutes)

[email protected]

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Sept. 29 No Sunday School Sept. 30 Rosh Hashana, no school Oct. 1 Rosh Hashana, no school Oct. 2 Tzom Gedalya, Late start 10:00am, MS Dismissal 12PM

MAZEL TOV To the Mandel family on the birth of a boy To Leib Katz and family on his Bar Mitzvah To Yitzchok Toron, son of R’ Moshe & Rivka Toron, on his engagement to Sarah Simon. To the Middle School Boys who successfully completed the B’Rina Yiktzoru program and earned a compact Shas set. **Someone won the Mishmar raffle this week. See if you can find his name hidden in this newsletter.**

THANK YOU To Mrs. Shternie Levy for teaching the 4th Grade girls for the beginning of school. WELCOME To Mrs. Gitty Crystal, our new 4th grade Morah, who starts on Monday. We wish you and your family tremendous hatzlacha.

Impossible - and Guaranteed The more Gemara you learn, the more cases you see discussed that seem to have no practical application, and yet much time and discussion is devoted to these cases. Obscure scenarios are discussed, presumably for the benefit of having an answer for a highly unlikely situation. However, for the Ben Sorrer Umoreh, the wayward and rebellious son in this week’s parsha who receives the death penalty, the Gemara makes a point of telling us that this case will never happen. This is a classic example of a moment in one’s learning where one might be tempted to ask, “what’s the point of learning this?” Of course, every bit of the Torah contains something to learn; the more confusing something is on the surface, the more there is to learn by digging a little deeper. The Gemara offers clues to a possible lesson. There is a list of conditions for a wayward child to be defined as an actual Ben Sorrer Umoreh. The parents, according to the Gemara, must have the same voice, the same appearance, and they must be the same height. What does this mean? The Baalei Mussar explain as follows: The same voice refers to the notion that parents must form a unified front in raising their child. The same appearance means that what the parents do in practice must match the values that they are teaching their child. The same height means that the parents must be together in their mutual understanding of the goals that they set for their child. How can the Gemara be so sure that there will never be a Ben Sorrer Umoreh? Because the conditions above all but guarantee the product. If parents form a unified front, a good, consistent example, and shared goals, the end result is not going to be a Ben Sorrer Umoreh. As a school, we are humbled at the notion that we partake in the parenting of your child. At Open House this week, parents and teachers made some of the first steps towards following the Gemara’s formula. When parents and school form a unified front, when personal example is a shared experience, and when goals are set and agreed upon, our children thrive and grow. Together, may we share this responsibility and see it through to fruition. Have a wonderful Shabbos, Rabbi Yitzchok Goldstein

Yosef Sollofe

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Gold Manor Campus Highlight

FIRST GRADE students playing Nekudos Bingo in Mrs. Katzman’s class. GROWTH MINDSET: I can’t get the

Shofar to make any noise YET, but I can keep trying!

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Every year at around this time, Morah

Kayla teaches her students that although

there are many ways to communicate

with people far away these days, nothing

is quite as special as a real letter arriving

the mail. She and her students create

Rosh Hashana cards and then trek out to

the mailbox (as a refresher, that’s a blue

metal object bolted to the ground. If you

put a properly addressed and stamped

envelope in the box—the opening is

waaaay at the top—then a uniformed

person eventually drives a truck over to

the box, empties it, and brings the letters

where they are supposed to go.)

This year, as the students were

experiencing what it’s like to mail a

letter (perhaps for the last time), a

large white truck pulled up and out

jumped a real live mail carrier to pick

up the Rosh Hashana cards! Before the

students’ eyes, he opened the box with

his special key just like Morah Kayla said

he would. He put the letters in his bin,

stopped to say hello and take a picture

with us, and then went back to his truck.

The Pre-K students were so excited to see

this all happen.

Morah Kayla, we finally believe you.

Amberley Campus News

Last year, CHDS middle school boys participated in the B’rina Yiktzoru program. The goal of this program is to encourage students to make a kinyan—to aquire—their learning on a higher level. Students were challenged to memorize the Shakla V’Tarya (logical progression) of all the gemaros that they learned this year. This is no small feat, requiring much practice and review. Mazel Tov to (L-R pictured above with 7th Grade Rebbe Rabbi Siegal and Rabbi Epstein from the Kollel) Nochum Avtzon, Yonason Singer, Mordechai Braunstein, Yisrael Nachum Polsky, and Coby Scherer. Each boy received his own compact set of Shas, because the greatest reward is further learning. The program continues this year.

Leib Yaakov reads his Bar Mitzvah parsha