In פרשת שמות, we learn of the first encounter

between Moshe Rabbeinu and Hkb”h. This event is

quite momentous, as the relationship between

Moshe and Hashem is historically unparalleled.

The level of communication that Moshe would

ultimately merit with Hkb”h far surpasses that of

any other human being in all of history. It is re-

markable therefore to consider that the very

first words that Hashem says to Moshe are,

"remove your shoes for you are standing on holy

ground." While it is undoubtedly necessary for

Hashem to review the rules of appropriate eti-

quette when communicating with the divine, it is

nonetheless striking that these be the very first

words that Hashem should share with him. Why

does Hashem not first introduce Himself (as He

does immediately thereafter), and wait to review

the rules of conduct later? Perhaps this type of

introduction is to underscore the importance of

establishing a foundation of respect upon which

their relationship could then be built. In life,

many of the connections and bonds that we share

with family and friends are built primarily upon a

foundation of mutual love and endearment. Often

however, there exists an insufficient degree of

respect in these relationships. Children love their

parents but do not always speak to them as they

should. Students often admire their teachers but

do not always express themselves in the most

appropriate manner. Hashem teaches Moshe dur-

ing their very first encounter, that a relationship

that is to be meaningful and fulfilling must be

built upon a foundation of respect. Friendship,

camaraderie, love and endearment will follow. But

first, there must be respect. שבת שלום

Rabbi Lawrence Rothwachs, 8B2

PARASHA QUESTIONS GRADES 1 and 2: 1. How many Jews came to Mitzrayim? 2. How many Jews left Mitzrayim? 3. What was the name of the King of Mitzrayim? 4. Who were the two Jewish midwives? 5. What was the name of the famous river in מצרים? 6. What were the midwives told do with the Jewish

boys? 7. Who were Yocheved's children? 8. For how many months was משה hidden? 9. In what was he placed? 10. Where was he placed? 11. Who stood at a distance to see what would hap-

pen 12. Who came to the Nile River and saw the baby in a

?תיבה 13. Who named him משה? 14. What did משה do to the Egyptian who hit a fellow

Jew? 15. Who wanted to kill משה? 16. To where did Moshe run away? 17. Who was the father of the girl משה met at the

well? 18. How many daughters did he have? 19. Whom did Moshe marry? 20. How did Hashem appear to Moshe? 21. What was the miracle of the Sneh? 22. What did Moshe have in his hand? 23. What happened when he threw it to the ground? 24. What happened when he put his hand inside his

shirt? 25. Who had difficulty speaking? 26. Who spoke instead of him? 27. Did the people believe Moshe and Aharon? 28. Did Paro listen to Moshe and Aharon? 29. What was Paro's command for the Jews?

GRADES 3-4: 1. Who was born as Bnai Yisroel entered Mitzrayim? 2. What storage cities did the Jews build? 3. What was Shifra's real name? 4. What was Puah's real name? 5. Who was Puah to Shifra? 6. Who was the daughter of Levi? 7. Who married Yocheved? 8. Who became the nurse of Moshe? 9. Where was Moshe brought up? 10. Which two Jews did Moshe find fighting? 11. Where did Moshe lead the sheep of Yisro? 12. What were the names of Moshe's sons? 13. To whom did Hashem send Moshe? 14. Why did Moshe refuse to go? 15. What other event took place at Har Sinai? 16. Were the Jews to leave Egypt empty-handed? 17. How did Moshe bring the Makos (plagues)? 18. Did משה perform the מצוה of מילה on his sons while

in מדין? 19. Where was the bris performed? 20. Who performed it? 21. Where did Aharon and Moshe meet?

PARASHA ANSWERS GRADES 1 and 2: 1. Seventy. 2. 600,000 men, with women and

children. 3. Paro. 4. Shifra and Puah. 5. Nile. 6. Throw them into the River Nile. 7. Miriam, Aharon, Moshe. 8. Three months. 9. A box. 10. In the reeds of the Nile. 11. Miriam. 12. Paro’s daughter, Basya. 13. The daughter of Paro (Basya). 14. He killed him. 15. Paro. 16. Midyan. 17. Yisro. 18. Seven. 19. Tzipporah,

daughter of Yisro.

20. In a burning bush. 21. It burned but it was not burned

up. 22. A stick. 23. It became a snake. 24. It was covered with leprosy. 25. Moshe. 26. Aharon. 27. Yes. 28. No. 29. Make the Jews' work much more

difficult.

GRADES 3 and 4: 1. Yocheved.

2. Pisom and Ramses.

3. Yocheved. 4. Miriam.

5. Her daughter.

6. Yocheved.

7. Amram. 8. His mother, Yocheved. 9. At the king's palace. 10. Dasan and Aviram.

11. The desert. 12. Gershom and Eliezer.

13. Paro.

14. Modesty.

15. Giving of the Torah. 16. No.

17. With the special stick.

18. No. 19. On the road to Egypt.

20. Tzipporah.

21. Har of Hashem.

ד“בס

January 9, 2015 • 18 Tevet 5775 פרשת שמות Volume 36, Issue 15

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GRADES 5 and 6: 1. In which country did all of Yaakov's children live? 2. How did יוסף prove that he was a real צדיק? 3. How many children did a Jewish woman have at one time in Egypt? 4. Who was the "new" king of Egypt who ruled after יוסף died? 5. How did פרעה deal "wisely" with the Jews? 6. As the Jews were forced to work harder and

harder, what did ה' do to the Jewish people? 7. Why did פרעה make a decree that all Jewish boys

should be killed by the nurses? 8. When פרעה asked the Jewish nurses why the babies

weren’t killed, what did they answer? 9. What reward did Hashem give to Yocheved and

Miriam for not listening to פרעה? 10. How old was יוכבד when she gave birth to משה? 11. When משה was born, what special thing happened? 12. What did ה-בתי ’s maids advise her about saving משה? 13. What name did Basya give to the son of Yocheved, and what does

it mean? 14. How did משה kill the Egyptian taskmaster? 15. When משה saw דתן lift his hand to hit אבירם, what did he say to

?דתן 16. What did דתן say to משה? 17. How did משה feel when he heard דתן's words? 18. How many days did it take 'ה to convince משה to become the

leader of the Jewish People and take them out of מצרים? 19. What punishment did משה receive for refusing 'ה so much? 20. a) Who commanded משה to return to Egypt? b) Who gave משה permission to return to Egypt? 21. Why did Hashem send an angel to kill Moshe when he was

on his way back to Egypt? 22. How did Tzipporah save Moshe from death? 23. When they met, how did Aharon show his צדקות to Moshe? 24. What excuse did Paro give for not believing in Hashem? 25. After Moshe and Aharon came before Paro, how did Paro

make the work harder than ever before? GRADES 7 and 8: 1. What 4 things distinguished the Jews from the מצריים?

2. Which tribe (שבט) was never forced to work in Egypt?

3. Did the Jewish women in מצרים have pain when they gave birth?

4. What were the names of פרעה's 3 most important advisors?

5. When פרעה asked them what to do with the Jewish babies, what did

each one say?

6. How did Hashem repay each advisor?

7. What name did עמרם and יוכבד give to משה when he was born?

8. From where do we learn that we may not pronounce Hashem's name as it is written?

9. What were the seven names of Yisro?

10. What was special about the rod משה took back to מצרים?

GRADES 5 and 6: 1. The land of Goshen. 2. When he became a ruler in Egypt he remained a tzadik and did not

become influenced by the Egyptians. 3. Six healthy and strong children.

4. Some say he was actually a new king. Others say that he was the same פרעה as before who had merely made new decrees. 5. a) First, פרעה asked the Jews to volunteer their services; b) For a month פרעה paid them for their work; c) After the month, s policemen'פרעה .claimed he had no more money to pay פרעהforced the Jews to continue working for nothing. 6. Hashem increased them abundantly. 7. His astrologers said to פרעה that there was destined to be

born a son that would lead the Jews out of Egypt. 8. That Jewish women are different than the Egyptians. They don't

need nurses to help them give birth. The nurses are only called in af-terwards to give a helping hand.

,לוי Aharon, and the first ,כהן גדול became the mother of the first יוכבד .9Moshe. מרים married כלב from שבט יהודה, and became the mother of the royal dynasty of דוד המלך.

10. 130 years old. 11. The whole house shone with the light of the Shechinah. 12. Don't take him out of the water. It is against your father's decree. ה -בתי he who draws out. Said-משה .13 : "Because out of the water I drew him." 14. Moshe said the name of Hashem and the taskmaster fell dead. 15. Moshe called him a rasha even though he did not hit Aviram. 16. Who made you for a ruler over us? We will report you to פרעה because

we know you killed the Egyptian taskmaster. 17. He was sad and disappointed. He now realized why the Jews deserved

to be slaves. 18. Seven days. .משה instead of כהן the אהרון became angry and decided to make ה' .1920. a) Hashem; b) Yisro. 21. Because Moshe delayed in circumcising his son, Eliezer. 22. She took a knife (some say a sharp stone) and circumcised her son, Eliezer. 23. He kissed Moshe and showed he was not jealous that his younger

brother was chosen to take the Jews out of Egypt. 24. He claimed that 'ה wasn’t listed in his records of all the gods in the world. 25. The Jews had to gather their own straw to make the bricks and still

make the same number of bricks. GRADES 7-8: 1. a) The Jews didn't have non-Jewish names; b) The Jews continued to

speak Loshon haKodesh; c) The Jews didn't dress according to Egyp-tian styles; d) The Jews practiced kindness to each other and would not betray a fellow Jew to the Egyptians.

2. Levi; they had been instructed by Yaakov to concentrate on learning Torah. 3. No. Because they were all righteous women. 4. Bilam, Yisro, Iyov. 5. Bilam said: Throw the Jewish baby boys into the Nile to drown. Yisro

said: Don't do evil to the Jews. Iyov remained silent. 6. Bilam was eventually killed. Yisro was rewarded with descendants who

became heads of the Sanhedrin and they would have the opportunity to judge others fairly. Iyov was afflicted with suffering.

7. Yekusiel. 8. The word עלם also means "hide." 9. Reu'el, Yeser, Yisro, Keni, Chovav, Chever, Putiel. 10. a) It weighed 40 sa'ah, and yet seemed weightless when משה carried it;

b) It was made of sapphire; c) The letters דצ"ך עד"ש באח"ב were engraved on it; d) Also the Divine Name was etched on its surface.

c- u- t- t- i- n- g e- d- g- e Tuesday was a very exhilarating day for the middle

schoolers at RYNJ. The annual spelling bee went virtual.

This year, for the first time ever, the spelling bee was live-

streamed into all of the junior high classrooms. Parents and

grandparents were able to enjoy and "shep nachas" in the

comfort of their homes and offices. Thanks to the exper-

tise of Rabbi Efrayim Clair, RYNJ educational technologist,

this new initiative went off without a hitch. Sixth grader,

Esther Feldman, and Eighth grader, Yoni Siegel, competed

like pros with the final round going to Yoni spelling the win-

ning word b- i- l- a- t- e- r-a-l. Kudos to Mrs. Naomi Lands-

man, the spelling bee coordinator, for bringing excitement

and buzz to our spelling bee. Thank you to Mrs. Amy Pruzan-

sky and Mrs. Lucy Ianacone, our bee judges.

On Wednesday morning, January 7th, the Middle School boys had their third Kiddush Levana breakfast of the year. There were two components to the program. The first was the final skit competition between the best skit at each grade level. The boys had been given stories that demonstrate good Middos. Each small group of students prepared a skit and competed against the other groups in the class. When the winner was chosen the winning group com-peted against the best skit in the other classes and the final competition was at the Kiddush Levana breakfast. Congratulations to the winners, 6B. The second part of the program featured moving presentations by two RYNJ graduates, Yoni Weisinger and Tzvi Wiesel, who currently serve in the Israel Defense forces. Tzvi talked about his experience as a member of the infantry and how he enlisted in the army after his year of Yeshiva in Israel. Yoni told about his experience making Aliyah while still in high school and inte-grating into Israel life since that time. Yoni also talked about what it means to be a member of the tank corps and Tzvi discussed his unit’s role in counter ter-rorism. The boys listened in silence for about 25 minutes and then had a brief question and answer period. We are so proud of these young men and the courage they have displayed. Rabbi Dovid Kaminetsky

Our Chayalim, Tzvi and Yoni, visited multiple classes and shared their stories as well as answered questions from fascinated and impressed students and faculty. Most heart-warming was the shalom they received from their former teachers who were overjoyed to see them. Not to be outdone, and with a celebrity in school, Batya Weisinger got in on the action. It was the best “Show and Tell” when Batya brought her brother Yoni into her kitah. Batya told her class what Yoni does, he’s a chayal in Tzahal. Then she led her class in a group reading of Tefilla L’cha-yal that she read flawlessly from the Smartboard. You can see Kitah Aleph and Batya say the tefilla, by clicking on this link, http://rynj.org/apps/video/

watch.jsp?v=53891 or go to http://rynj.org/apps/video/. Not only are the Weisingers and the Wiesels shepping nachas, the entire RYNJ family is too. May Hashem watch over them and protect them as they protect Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.

6B1

7B2

In and Around the Yeshiva

המקום ינחםOur heartfelt condolences

to Dr. Saul Lejtman on the petirah of his dear father,

Mr. Usher Lejtman ל“ז .

to Rabbi and Mrs. Heshy Wieder on the petirah of their

dear son Gershon ל“ז .

To Mr. Shelly Mermelstein on the petirah of his dear sister

Rosalind Orbach ה“ע .

May the families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

To Mr. and Mrs. Sander Bak on the occasion of

their daughter Gabriella becoming Bat Mitzvah. To Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. Zalman Levine on the

occasion of their daughter Leeby becoming Bat Mitzvah. To Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Schwarcz on the occa-

sion of their son Shimmy becoming Bar Mitzvah. To Mr. and Mrs. Eduard Tamarov on the occasion of their

daughter Elisheva becoming Bat Mitzvah. To Rabbi and Mrs. Yosef Zitter (our colleague Morah Hadassah) on

the birth of a granddaughter, a daughter to Akiva and Chumi in Beitar.

Meet the Moms – a Success! Amidst the hustle and bustle of the Chanukah sea-son, replete with class plays and family parties, RYNJ mothers managed to find time to host individual class get-togethers for other moms. Over the past two months, each Kindergarten and First Grade class held an event where the mothers of each class had the op-portunity to meet and mingle. One Kindergarten class organized a dessert recipe exchange and tasting. “It was a pleasure hosting an event that allowed the mothers in the class to have a night out and meet one another,” Terri Karasick said. “The best part is that we all left with a cookbook that we created as a unit. We felt like our very own Kindergarteners; just like the Morah creates a unified class book every week, now we, the moms, were able to design a book together as well.” The “Meet-the-Moms” program is an informal way for mothers in the class to get to know each other. It helps create a sense of family within the RYNJ com-munity and enhances the friendliness and warmth among the parent body. The goal is to create a strong-er sense of camaraderie, especially for the new RYNJ families. A grateful parent wrote, “Thank you for creating this program. It has definitely opened a new avenue for knowing people in the school.” “Kol Hakavod ladies...truly a success,” wrote one Kindergarten mom. “Fun, interactive, a gorgeous dis-play of food and mindful Torah. It was super fun-lets

do it again.” Irit Sandler Science picks up steam at RYNJ These are some of the

creative 3-D models of different atoms from Mrs. Shein-

bein’s 8th grade girls! Chemistry rocks!!

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In and Around the Yeshiva

אורחים

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לת ל ל\מתפ ל מתפ

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מנוחה

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Rest

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במה אתה אוהב\את אוהבת לשחק בשבת? מה אתה לומד\את לומדת בשבת?

*These questions were submitted by Morah Lisa’s K2 class. !איזה יופי

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“מסביב לשולחן”שהשתתפו בתכנית

The banot of 5G1 spent the last month enveloped in a Navi project-based learning unit. The girls were paired and given resources and guidelines to help them through the process of learning, analyzing, and expressing their knowledge. Each group had opportunities to check in with their Morah daily to make sure they were staying on track. The

girls ex-pressed their mas-tery over the materi-al by creat-ing models depict-ing scenes from the Perakim. They pre-

sented their models to the class this past week. The girls did a mag-nificent job and learned a lot about themselves as learners along the way! The models are on display in the main concourse on the third floor. Morah Greenberg

Rabbi Chesner and 3B2 made a Rosh Chodesh bulletin board to

enhance their learning of the laws of recognizing Rosh Chodesh,

based on their Mishnah studies.

בשבת שעבר:“ מסביב לשולחן“כל הכבוד למשפחות שהשתתפו ב

Family Schechter, Strobel, Gamss, Kaplan, Bindiger, Dreifus, Schreiber, Haselkorn, Farkas, Fink, Skoczylas, Pfeiffer, Goldstein, Rotblat, Weisinger,

Blau, Mallin, Erlich, Goldstein, Hanauer, Mernick, Glass and Ginzberg.

Join the fun!

Lori Okoskin Memorial

P a r n a s H a y o mP a r n a s H a y o mP a r n a s H a y o m

January 7

In memory of Louis Klein - Yechiel Aryeh ben Moshe ל“ז

great grandfather of Avraham Glatter

Dedicated by Susan and Heshy Glatter

In honor of the birthday of Rikki Zagelbaum.

Dedicated by Ephraim and Bashy Zagelbaum

January 8

In the zechut of a refuah shleimah for Eliyahu Aharon ben Yocheved Yuta Ettel In the zechut of a refuah shleimah for Shalva Adina bat Sarah Chana

Dedicated by Elissa and Barry Finkelstein and Family

January 9

In memory of Frances and David Steinberg ל“ז

grandmother of Elli, Kayla, and Danya Spinowitz

Dedicated by Judy and Alex Rauzman

In memory of Yehudit Yocheved bat Mordechai ה“ע on her first yahrzeit

Great grandmother of Shlomo, Ariella and Shira Gold

dedicated by Rachel and Menachem Gold

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