Happy Passover!

2nd Year B’nei Mitzvah: Moses’s Identities in the Passover Story

Playing Hangman to review the Jewish matriarchs and patriarchs and working in groups to order key events in the Passover story.
Discussing how Moses had two identities, an Egyptian one and a Jewish one, and exploring what sort of different identities we hold.
Creating our own ancient Egyptian style scarab seals, with our names written in hieroglyphs and hebrew letters to represent the two identities held by Moses.

Listening to the story of Joseph and then discussing how his brothers treated him and the idea of forgiveness, both in the story and our own lives.
Considering other people’s artistic representations in modern pop culture.
Reading the Passover story as a class and discussing the way in which we treat people who are different from us, and how that can affect our relationships with them.
Learning about the six symbolic foods on the seder plate and coming up with our own additions.

Discussing what the meaning of freedom during Passover means to us, as well as the historical meaning, and talking through the steps of the Passover Seder.
Discussing the meaning behind each seder plate symbol.
Reading an excerpt from a Passover Haggadah, and designing our own comic book “mini-Haggadahs,” portraying parts of the Passover story.

Watching a fun video about the Passover story, discussing traditional and non-traditional seder plate symbols, and brainstorming our own non-traditional symbols we would add to the seder plate.
Discussing the symbolism of matzah (the “bread of affliction”) and oppression as it relates to the Passover story, and decorating salt water bowls for dipping the karpas in during the Seder.
Playing a “Crossing the Dead Sea” game, and discussing freedoms we are grateful to have.

Discussing the symbolism of freedom in the Passover story and different ways we celebrate Passover today and playing a game to retell the story.
Taking a “freedom march” together, to symbolize the Jews leaving Egypt.
Playing different Passover games.
Building our own pyramids, just like the Jews did in Egypt.

Testing if we can remember with all ten plagues as a class and then checking our work by watching the Passover story.
Acting out the plagues then putting ourselves in the order that the plagues happened.
Playing different Passover games to review the story.

Telling the story Passover and discussing the ways in which we celebrate Passover with our own families.
Creating a Passover word web and then using the words we brainstormed to play Passover-themed Taboo.
Decorating ten plagues wheels and choreographing our down dance moves to a song that recounts the ten plagues.

Passover is a celebration of freedom. Talk to your children about what freedoms we have in our lives. If you think it is appropriate, you may want to explain that not all people in the world have these freedoms.
Why is it important that we retell the story of Passover each year at our seder?

Jewish Kids GroupsMarch 21, 2021Comment