Category Archives: Teaching Children

Sukkot
Posted on 24 September 2023 by Elze Erwteman
On the fifteenth day of the seventh biblical month Tishri we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. It is a feast of rejoicing and gratefulness to God. For seven days we live in a sukkah, a hut, which we build ourselves and decorate. The roof of the sukkah is not closed. We need to be able...
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Shavuot, time to praise and thank G-d
Posted on 12 April 2021 by Noa Naor
Seven weeks after the holiday called ‘Pesach’, we celebrate Shavuot, the holiday of harvesting. The time in between these two holidays is the one in which Israel harvests barley. This is the time that Israel produces vegetables and fruit. This means it is a very busy period for those who work on the land. However,...
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Freedom and deliverance
Posted on 11 April 2021 by Noa Naor
Shalom, dear children! Freedom and deliverance: that is what Pesach is all about. At the time of Moshe (Moses), G-d delivered Israel and everyone who joined Israel from the slavery in Egypt. G-d even cared for the smallest details: “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out...
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Your Wedding Clothes
Posted on 08 September 2020 by Anne Mulder
Shalom dear children, Our Messiah Yeshua tells a story about the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Adonai. You will find it in In Matthew 22. We are now in the last month of the Jewish year: Elul. In Judaism this month Elul is a month to be aware of the wrong things in our...
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Can you shine your light?
Posted on 20 July 2020 by Anne Mulder
Let your light shine When I was in primary school, I learned and sung this well-known song in Dutch: ‘So let your light shine in everything you do, so that people say: G-d is good’. This is what Yeshua says in Matthew 5:16: “This is how you should shine light to the people so that...
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Chanukkah and our home
Posted on 18 November 2017 by Noa Naor
Shalom, dear children! by Noa Naor Isn’t it wonderful to live in a house in which you feel at home? Of course, we all know that a house is a place to live in; however, this month we’ll learn about the ‘dedication of the Temple and of your house’, and you might wonder what those...
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Jewish remedy for Syrian general
Posted on 07 December 2014 by Anne Mulder
Shalom boys and girls! By Anne Mulder It’s about 900 BCE (before Common Era). In a neighboring country of Israel, Syria, lives Na’aman. He is a general, the boss of a great army. Everyone admires Na’aman, for he continuously wins the war for his people. He has many friends, even the king of Syria is...
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Sheep and shepherd
Posted on 07 December 2012 by Lion Erwteman
You must have seen little lambs in the meadow during spring. Nice sight, isn’t it, as they leap and jump and chase each other. And when go to their mothers and drink. What you see less often is when the mother sheep and their lambs are being sent inside. They don’t always like that. But...
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Happy Purim
Posted on 05 December 2012 by Noa Naor
The Word of G’d is full of laws and rules. ‘Honour your father and your mother’ is even one of the Ten Words, that Moshe (Moses) received to give to the people of Israel. Adonai says that you shall honour yout parents: “so that you may live longer in the land that the LORD your...
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Qumran, memory of faithful Jews
Posted on 05 December 2012 by Noa Naor
Shalom, dear children! When you drive to the South alongside the Dead Sea, you pass the remains of a place in the mountains that is called Qumran, about 20 kilometres to the east of Jerushalayim. At that spot a Bedouin boy found bible scrolls in 1947. Therefore these scrolls are also called the ‘Dead Sea...
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