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January 4 2019 EMPATHY 4 07 PM In Parshas the list the family tree of the first three Rashi mentions that the Torah chronicles the descendants of Reuven and Shimon in order to eventually arrive at the genealogy of with the objective of tracing the lineage of and HaRav Eliezer Ashkenazi in his wonders why the psukim employs different wording when listing the generations of Levi The other two shevatim are introduced with while begins with He explains that the word is the secret to why the children of merited to play such a critical role in Levi foresaw the and the corresponding that would undergo With that thought in mind he named each of his three sons a name which would be a constant reminder of his identification with the suffering of the Jewish people the Jews would be foreigners in a strange land they would be weak and battered from the strenuous labor And Bnei Yisrael would lead bitter lives It was this attitude of commiserating and feeling the pain of the rest of the Jewish nation that not only helped save his family from Mitzrayim but also earned his descendants the merit of becoming the redeemers The Navi conveys a like message regarding our current Those that properly mourn the loss of the Beis HaMikdash will merit to rejoice in the January 21 No classes Teacher s Professional Development Day January 27 Rebbeim meeting Dismissal at 11 30 an The bulletin is sponsored by Have a Rabbi Ochs We are pleased to announce that once again this year we are offering electives to the girls in seventh and eighth grade This round of electives includes aerobics facilitated by one of our staff members and hairstyling class led by Mrs Tova Kahn Eighth grade has already had a month elective with Mrs Lisa Marshall who instructed them in the skills of debating We thank Mrs Marshall for sharing her expertise with our students in a fun and challenging way They certainly learned very worthwhile life skills For their Siyum on Parshas Vayigash 4G performed skits based on stories with Middos lessons connected to the Parsha they also enjoyed ice cream with toppings to the Kindergarten classes who finished reviewing all the letters of the They celebrated with a siyum They are excited about beginning to learn their Thank you Moros Frohlich Wilhelm R Gould and Roditi 6 8 grade boys had a unique Design Challenge this past week in Mr Berman s class In this challenge students in groups were given a 5 x 5 grid The drawer of the group was tasked with filling in the grid based on the directions of the design chief The design chief was provided a picture from the teacher with a 5 x 5 grid overlay The design chief then needed to write clear directions passed through the team s runner to the drawer to get the image correctly drawn From this non verbal exercise students had the opportunity to learn that clear communication is very difficult and even if you think you are being clear it may not be so clear to the person on the receiving end Morah Fontek s 2nd grade girls on a daily basis receive caring acknowledgement notes for positive behavior

Bulletin Board DAY OF LEARNING 26 Teves sponsored by Torah Academy in memory of Mrs Jenny Graubart a h mother of Michael Levin and grandmother of Ayla Levin 27 Teves sponsored by Esther Bobby Sanieoff in zechut of Avraham Sanieoff Araham ben Esther CONDOLENCES To Mr Michael Levin on the passing of his mother Mrs Jenny Graubart a h COMMUNITY EVENTS Shabbos Parshas Va arah Goldbrenner and Plotnik Families joint Kiddush at the Kollel for men at their homes for women see details in the flyer further in the bulletin SHNAYIM MIKRA to learners who completed all of 5B 6B 7B 8B Yehuda Leib Feldman Yoni Faintuch Malkiel Miara Meir Hain Yehuda Ezra Feuerstein Yisrael Feldman Yosef Aryeh Leff Shlomo Rosmarin Yaakov Fontek Shmuel Meir Solomon Aaron Sanieoff Moshe Leff Binyomin Septimus Noam Youshaei

PRESCHOOL SNAPSHOTS 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 4 6 3 7 8 6 6 1 The Kindergarten classes celebrate a siyum for having completed reviewing all the letters 2 The maka of Barad fire and hale in PreK 3 PreK2 children make sure that their snacks have proper hechsherim 4 Chazanis Nechama Raizel Rodkin leads the davening in PreK 5 K1 visits Mrs Berzansky s high school shuk 6 6 9 6 Exploring literacy in our preschool classrooms 7 While learning the letters Tof and Sof the children brought in objects that started with the letter Tof 8 Davening in PreK 1

WILLISTON SNAPSHOTS 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 1 4 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Lamed Tes Melachos in 4B Zoreh Nechemia Berzansky is facilitating math flash cards in grade one 6th graders hard at work on their science fair experiments Grade 6 boys learning b chevrusa in the Rebbe s shul Shabbos coloring book was a fun activity in grade 1B Ezra Klompas in grade 3 teaching about the stars 2B honing their subtraction addition skills using pages projected on the white board 4th grade exploring the scientific method as they fly their paper airplanes 9 1st grade Literacy working in reading groups 10 5th graders preparing their science fair experiments with Mr Carey 11 6th graders creating their own maps in Mr Bakke s social studies class 12 8th graders engaged in their Communication Design Challenge in Mr Berman s class 13 1st graders learning about telescopes as part of their science unit

HAMILTON SNAPSHOTS 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 1 Bulletin board displays in the Hamilton building 2 Mrs Gould s 5th grade girls made frog cupcakes in honor of 3 4 party 5 6 Adina Mendelev 8G completed high school geometry in the 7 Aleks study program and received her special certificate 8 The girls in grade 4 surprised Mrs Sandperl with a birthday It is winter so 1G created snowflakes 4G siyum for parsha Vayigash 1G enjoys playing math games 4G performing skits for their siyum 8

Torah Academy is proud to menschen the following Talmidim who had MIDDOS ALL DAY in both Kodesh and General Studies 1st GRADE Yehoshua Kashnow Yehuda Ezra Feuerstein Akiva Bressel Zelig Bier 3rd GRADE Meir Zev Gelernter Akiva Feuerstein Yehuda Greenblatt Uri Hain Yosef Polter Yitzy Gould Levi Meir Klompas David Knisbacher Shlomo Rosmarin Nesanel Luria Aron Luria Daniel Simnegar Baruch Marshall Levi Meyers 6th GRADE Asher Nesanel Mintzes Akiva Rosmarin Yoni Faintuch Dovid Sebbag 4th GRADE Yisrael Feldman Moshe Segal Eliezer Moshe Feuerstein Dovid Tzvi Krochmal Yaakov Wallin Naftoli Ochs Moshe Leff 2nd GRADE 5th GRADE Binyomin Septimus Manny Tarlin Natanel Atar Moshe Blumberg Chatzkel Wilhelm Yishai Wasserman Ari Block Yehoshua Feldman 7th GRADE Nesanel Wilhelm Yosef Hoffman Yehuda Leib Feldman Henoch Blumberg Nachi Halpern Ezi Markov Nechemiah Ochs Eitan Shkap 8th GR ADE Meir Hain Yosef Aryeh Leff Shmuel Meir Solomon Daniel Youshei SHNAYIM MIKRA Mazel Tov to learners for Parshas Shemos 5B 6B 7B Yehuda Leib Feldman Yoni Faintuch Malkiel Miara Yehuda Ezra Feuerstein Yisrael Feldman Nechemia Ochs Raffle Winners Meir Zev Gelernter Yaakov Fontek 8B Yehuda Leib Feldman Yisrael Leib Greene Moshe Leff Yonah Gluckin Yoni Faintuch Shlomo Rosmarin Chaim Mordechai Moshe Rodkin Meir Hain Nechemia Ochs Aaron Sanieoff Binyomin Septimus Yosef Aryeh Leff Chatzkel Wilhelm Shmuel Meir Solomon Noam Youshaei Nesanel Wilhelm

Come Learn Mishnayos at the Mesivta Learn Mesechta Zevachim or Sanhedrin Or another Mesechta with a Mesivta Bochur For Sixth and Seventh Graders When Wednesday Nights Starting Jan 9 6 45 7 15 114 Leicester St Please RSVP so we can arrange Chavrusos For more information call 857 600 8536 or bostonmesivta gmail com