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Seasonal Holidays in Riga.
The first of the holidays on the Jewish calendar is Rosh Hashanah. There was organized interesting intellectual game “A sell-made person” dedicated to the Sixth day of Creation – the Creation of the man. The participants had to make themselves, using different materials – plastic cups and dishes, cutlery, colored tissue paper and aluminium foil. The children works were interesting and later everybody had a rare possibility to look them up as an exhibition was held. Then after the Ten Days of Repentance there came the most important day of the year – Yom Kippur, the day of prayers, repentance and forgiveness. During the lessons such problems as: Why are we praying?; Why is it very important for the person we have hurt to forgive us? were discussed. The children were encouraged to make his or her personal prayer and later the prayers were read and discussed. On the day of Hol a Moed Sukkot there was carried out a culinary competition. The teams had only 20 minutes to make an interesting dish of vegetables or fruits, name it and point out its band with holiday of Sukkot. The team had to make a presentation and later all the audience enjoyed the refreshments. The dishes were various showed the profound knowledge, the solid preparation and great amount of the most important quality – imagination. The works were as follows: fruit sukkas, airy meringue - the Cloud of Glory, the salads made from four components as four kinds of plants, marzipan apples, matzah cake, a tree with seven brunches and the symbols of Sukkot as its fruits. The competition turned out successful and everybody was content and happy. On the eve of Simchat Tora there was organized a playing program. The four teams had to create the Torah Scroll. The material was very definite and everybody received the same: tape, scissors, pencils colored, blue and red velvets, gold and silver glue paper, sticks, threads and needles, small flags. When the work was completed and the Scroll of the Torah was put into the beautiful case, the children formed two circles and passed the Scroll so as everybody could hold it for a moment and pass it to the next member of the circle. Then a boy stood in the centre of the circle holding the Scroll in his arms and everybody danced around him. After a few minutes spent in the centre of the circle the boy returned to his place and another boy took his place. All the boys got the possibility to be in the centre of the circle. back |
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