Second Post of the Day
Last week was busy. Seems we ran from here to there and back again. Here are a few pictures from last week: This weekend is the Purim. Last Sunday I taught my chidlers (you would have had to have read The Big Friendly Giant to catch that reference to calling children "chidlers") the story of Esther. It was a fairly abbreviated lesson, as I only have 30 minutes for the entire class, and we have to get in greetings and prayer time and general organization, but we hit all the high parts. This week we are going to bake cookies. The formal name for these are Hamantaschen. That is the name the Jewish settlement in Germany gave to them. And there is a whole history in itself with these cookies. But in Israel they are called "Haman's Ears." Since we only have 30 minutes I baked these up, but kept a few of the dough rounds for the kids to fill and then bake. They take about 15 minutes to bake. This should b...