DAY 57 (Nov 28) Judaism Presentations!

We had three awesome presentations today.  First was Paige and an intriguing presentation on Sukkot and Simchat Torah.  She did a great explaining the connection between how people today recognize the tribulations experienced by Jews in the distant past and how important it is to still recognize it through the use of symbols and celebrations.  Here's a picture of the "wine" (sparkling Grenadine water) that Paige shared with us:

And then Savannah and Dave told us all about Rosh Hashanah, a traditional time of New Beginnings and High Holy Days symbolized, quite appropriately, by sweets such as honey and apples - see what they provided to help us celebrate (below:

And then we enjoyed the Hamentashen that Michaela and Meghen D. brought in (below), both the strawberry and apricot filled ones!  We learned that Purim is a time of celebration and it is meant to be joyous and fun for everyone, especially children, to celebrate a time, again in the distant past, that Jews in Persia were saved from certain death by Haman . . . until King Artaxerxes intervened because he loved his wife, Esther, a Jew, and would not see any harm come to her.

It is important to note the strong connection between long ago persecutions of Jews through history and current celebrations of redemption from those persecutions in the celebrations of modern times.