Hundreds of Brachot

The rabbis taught that we are obligated to say one hundred blessings a day. Has anyone come close? Even if you've only said one or two, I hope the homework assignment has introduced at least one new bracha to your family.

Please remember that, as always, homework is due on Thursday. Also, many students have outstanding hebrew homework and missing folders. I'll send personal emails to check in if they aren't returned this week.

We began a new set of blessings this week, knows as the morning blessings, or birkot hashachar. The rabbis designed these brachot to roughly correspond to the first things people do every morning, such as opening the eyes, getting dressed and standing on solid ground. Here's a link to some more info about the source of these blessings.

On Sunday, rather than give students the entirety of the text above, I separated the blessings from the actions, and asked them to try to guess which blessing goes with which action. This proved to be understandably challenging, and I hope the activity will provoke some good discussion on Thursday.

We're moving ahead in Hebrew reading. As you might guess, students are seeing that frequent attendance and completing homework leads to success in mastering this new phonetic system.

Morah Amy