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November 13 2020 NO RESPITE FOR THE WEARY When Avraham Avinu went to purchase from he prefaced his request with the following According to the mishneh in Avos Avraham Avinu was tested with ten tests The Mefarshim explain that the tests increased progressively in difficulty Once Avraham proved himself in a lesser Hashem presented him with a more difficult test to further advance Avraham s growth and development in The majority of Rishonim maintain that was the final and most difficult test However disagrees When he lists the his writes that the tenth and final test of Avraham Avinu occurred when he was forced to buy a burial plot for Sara for an exorbitant fee While dealing with was certainly unpleasant and being forced to pay for a piece of land that was s promised birthright 4 05 PM possibly upsetting it still seems to pale in comparison with the magnitude of One of the answers given explains that when Avraham returned from the nisayon of the Akeida he had achieved an incomparable level of loftiness and holiness that continues to sustain Klal Yisrael until today Avraham could have felt that he had made it and now deserved a little respite He had brought such glory to Hashem s name and had been prepared to sacrifice so much Yet as soon as he reached home he was immediately confronted with the of and the necessity of burying her Why Parent Teacher Conferences on Zoom see revised schedule inside For even after an Avraham had another lesson to infuse within his children There is no break in no sitting back and resting on one s laurels Life is a continuous path of and an must travel relentlessly forward and upward Rabbi Ochs Last Thursday boys in grades 4 8 celebrated last year s Chemdas learning with a grand trip to Treetop Adventures in Canton Massachusetts The boys had a blast hanging from the trees Thank you to the Halpern family for sponsoring the trip and the program l iluy nishmas Rabbi Halpern s father Reb Yosef ben Reb Nochum Yoel z l Mazel Tov to 6G on completing Parshas Bamidbar Thank you Miss Fireman In grade 1G they are working with the program and are progressing in their reading skills Once they have mastered review of and they will start reading short words and building fluency The girls are preparing for receiving their Each week they learn two new and use them to write Hebrew sentences Writing letters in Hebrew script is a skill that is being taught In their unit the are covering the minhagim and the reasons for them They are looking forward to a wonderful rest of the year Girls in are already up to their third of They have started a new book called They are very excited about their tree that they just started Every time girls in the class do a for another girl a leaf is added to the tree When the tree is filled they will have a class celebration In General Studies they are learning about place value with three digit numbers In phonics they are learning about nouns and are finishing their second unit This week in honor of Veteran s Day they studied what this day means to the country Studying about famous Americans is part of the social studies curriculum This week they began the first unit which is about Amelia Earhart View some nice pictures inside including grade five boys who are currently trying to build the tallest free standing structure possible using dowels rubber bands and pipe cleaners After creating blueprints they took some time to beta test ideas indoors before they head outside to both free up building space and to provide for some naturally occurring wind tunnel testing

Bulletin Board DAY OF LEARNING 25 Cheshvan sponsored by Yudi Ellie Riesel in honor of Moshe Aryeh Riesel 5B on completing all of mishnayos in Seder Moed MAZEL TOV TO Moshe 10 Freedman and Racheli Berger on the recent marriage and to parents Mr Elliott Mrs Malka Tzipora Freedman Yonatan and Tamar Polyak 13 Busani on their marriage and to parents Mr Gavriel and Mrs Pazit Polyak SHNAYIM MIKRA Mazel Tov to learners for Parshas Vayera 4B 5B 8B Netanel Atar Ezra Klompas Moshe Beilin Eli Benmergui Uri Knisbacher Yaakov Fontek Sruly Halpern Yaakov Bier Aryeh Block 6B Uri Katz Yosef Hoffman Asher Katz Dovid Tzvi Krochmal Shua Kashnow Naftoli Ochs Moishe Leff Gavi Rosenberg Tuvia Schonberg Yosef Yaakov Mermelstein Mendel Meyers Noach Weiner Eliyahu Yousheei 7B Binyomin Septimus Yehuda Wolf Avrami Shimanovich Chatzkel Wilhelm Noam Youshaei

PRESCHOOL SNAPSHOTS A week full of learning in Preschool

HAMILTON SNAPSHOTS 4G create puzzles depicting lessons from Perek Alef of Sefer Yehoshua Then they swap puzzles and guess what each other had drawn 4G discovers the changing states of matter with oobleck 2G completing a language arts activity and enjoying gym class

WILLISTON SNAPSHOTS 4B playing a game of kahoot as a review for their mishnayos test Grade five boys build and test the tallest free standing structure Chemdas Yosef grades 4 8 winners enjoy Tree Top Adventure Grade 1 boys celebrating fall