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Pesach at Neot KedumimBy: Beth Uval

Just down the road at Neot Kedumim, the perfect family Pesach outing awaits. Comfortable, paved paths, accessible to baby carriages and wheelchairs, wind through the reserve in its spring beauty. Along the trails are activity stations for children and explanations for adults.

In keeping with the rainbow of wildflowers brightening the landscape, this year’s Pesach theme is “Color in Nature”.

At the beginning of the trail, children receive kits for such activities as making colorful bandanas and bookmarks. On Trail A, a small herd of sheep is waiting; on Trail B, a giant, interactive mosaic calendar.

At the calendar and elsewhere, explanations will focus on ibur hashanah. Visitors will be able to see the original reasons for adding the second Adar. Today, the calendar is fixed, and we know that the intercalation occurs seven times in 19 years. But in ancient Israel, the Sanhedrin decided each year whether the extra month was necessary. They observed, among other factors, the grain in the fields, and if it looked like the barley would not be ripe for the omer offering on Pesach, they would add the additional month. At the grain fields and threshing floors, we will be able to see the actual reasons for the ibur and the close connection

Continued on page 11

Shabbat Erev Pesach By: Rav David Lau

Thursday – The 12th of NissanMale adult firstborns (and fathers of minor firstborn

sons) are required to fast on Thursday, the 12th of Nissan, and not as usual on the 14th of Nissan, which this year falls on Shabbat. The prevailing custom is that one who participates in a festive meal to mark the completion of a talmudic tractate is exempt from fasting.

Thursday Evening – The 13th of NissanOn Thursday evening, the 13th of Nissan,

immediately after nightfall, one searches for chametz and not on the 14th of Nissan as usual. Before the search, one makes the usual blessing, and after the search one says the usual annulment (Kol Chamira). Chametz for Friday night and Shabbat morning should be kept in a safe, separate place.

Friday – The 13th of Nissan: Burning The Chametz

All chametz which will not be used for this Shabbat should be burned on Friday (see Pesach Times, page 13). One should not annul chametz at the time of burning. This is done on Shabbat morning.

Those who wear dentures or braces should not eat hot chametz beginning Friday afternoon.

Continued on page 7

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Ramle is situated on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway approximately 28 miles (45 km) from Jerusalem. There are two routes that lead into the city: the old Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv road (44) from the direction of the Beit Dagan junction and from the direction of the Lod-Ramle junction when traveling on the Airport-Rehovot road.

Ramle was founded in 716 A.D. by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman Ibn Abd Al-Malik. It is the only city in Israel that was founded by Arabs Muslims. The city’s name “Raml” means “sand” in Arabic and refers to the sandy ground on which the city was built on. Due to its advantageous location on the crossroads of the Egypt-Damascus and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highways, the city prospered in the middle ages. Although originally founded by Muslims, the city quickly attracted Christians, Jews and Samaritans.

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Just imagine how difficult it is for a kid with a lisp to say the words speech therapist. I always thought it was a cruel joke giving the profession that name. Another very common articulation problem outside Israel is when a person produces the /w/ sound for the /r/ sound. It’s true that these speech problems are rarely severe enough to impair the child’s intelligibility entirely, but they can make a child self-conscious about talking. Therefore, a large number of children in English speaking countries presenting these articulation difficulties are routinely treated by speech therapists. There is no /th/ sound in Hebrew but we can all make a long list of Israelis we know ranging from politicians to colleagues to kindergarten teachers who substitute /th/ for /s/ sounds. I always find this puzzling and even jarring and I wonder if the /th/ wrongly used has become an acceptable dialectical difference in Hebrew.

In Modiin, if your child has a lisp in Hebrew you can get coverage from the Kupot Cholim from age six for nine sessions. If your child cannot produce the /th/ sound, only speaks English or only has the problem in English saying “your mouth ith thick” when she really means that your pet rodent is not feeling well, you will find it very hard to find therapy covered by the

Kupot Cholim. Importantly, if your child produces the /w/ sound for the /r/ sound, you will never get speech therapy through the Kupot because this is purely an English speaker’s problem with no equivalent sound in Hebrew. The Health Funds are full beyond capacity with communication difficulties affecting Hebrew speaking children. Waiting lists are long. It should be said that there are huge numbers of Hebrew speaking children requiring these services and although the therapists are working valiantly they face constant cut-backs. From the perspective of the Kupot Cholim, articulation problems exclusive to English speakers will always have to wait.

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Erev Pessach, Continued from page 1

Chametz is sold by the Rabbanut to a non-Jew on Friday morning, and the sale takes effect immediately prior to Shabbat. Make sure to fill out the forms and authorize the Rabbanut to sell your chametz prior to Friday morning.

Preparations for the Seder On Friday afternoon, one should also prepare the

candles to light on Saturday night, as well as lighting a candle that burns in excess of 25 hours. That candle should be used to light the Pesach candles on Saturday night.

It is forbidden to prepare on Shabbat for Chag. All the preparations for the Seder should be made before Shabbat. These include: roasting the shank bone; preparing salt water; making the charoset, and all other preparations so as to start the Seder as soon as possible. If one forgets to roast the shank bone on Friday, this may be done Saturday night and must be eaten on Sunday so the roasting is for the purpose of eating on the Chag. If one forgets to prepare the salt water, this may be done on Saturday night in a slightly unusual way by pouring the water in first and then adding salt. Wine may be added on Saturday night to the charoset.

If one intends to use lettuce for maror, one should rinse and check it thoroughly before Shabbat and then place it in a sealed bag (or other container) in the refrigerator. One should not leave it in water over Shabbat because this diminishes the maror taste.

If one uses chrein (horseradish) it should be grated before Shabbat and kept in a well-sealed container so the taste is not diminished. If one forgot to grate the chrein on Friday, it may be grated on Seder night in a slightly unusual way, such as on the table directly and not onto a plate.

Cooking for ShabbatThe custom is to prepare all cooked food kosher for

Pesach for this Shabbat in Pesach utensils. Disposable utensils are preferable. The pots, stove and oven should all be kashered for Pesach prior to cooking for Shabbat. Once the food has cooled down it may be transferred to Chametz utensils. Should one wish to transfer the food while it is still hot (45c or above), one should first transfer it into another Pesach pot (kli sheni) before pouring it into chametz utensils, taking care not to pour from a chametz utensil to a Pesach utensil.

Shabbat HaGadol – the 14th of NissanThe Shabbat Meal

One may eat chametz at the beginning of the meal, clean off any crumbs from the table, change the tablecloth and continue the meal with kosher for Pesach food and utensils. One may use egg matza for the Shabbat meals taking care that the egg matza not come in contact with Pesach utensils.

Shabbat Morning tefilla should end early enough to eat the morning meal before the last time for eating

Chametz (see Pesach Times, page 13).

Seuda Shlishit may be observed by eating kosher for Pesach meat or fish in the afternoon without bread or matza.. Sfardim may eat egg matza for Seuda Shlishit, but must start the meal before 17:00.

Cleaning Up, Removing and Annulling the Chametz

If any chametz remains after the morning meal, it should be crumbled and flushed down the toilet. The chametz utensils and tablecloth should be put away safely, and one should sweep the house. One should rinse one’s mouth, wash hands, and brush off clothes thoroughly.

One should annul the chametz with the “Kol Chamira” text which is usually said on Erev-Pesach at the burning of chametz. All the above (including the annulment) must be completed before 11:15 am.

Seder Night – The 15th of NissanCandles for Chag should be lit from the 25-hour

candle prepared Friday afternoon. Women should make sure to say, “hamavdil ben kodesh lechul” before lighting or preparing for the Seder.

Kiddush and HavdalaThe special order of kiddush at night is referred to as

YaKNeHaZ. This stands for (a) Yayin – the blessing overContinued on page 10

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New mothers and fathers are encouraged to discover their own inner resources of strength and wisdom in nurturing and guiding their children to grow up to be productive members of our future world.

In more simple cultures all over the world, and in our own past culture, parents and children enjoyed a much closer attachment to each other. In those days it was understood that it was the parents who were to be the child’s first teachers of life through their love, nurturing and personal example. Yet in our busy fast-paced world, more and more of the responsibility for childrearing has been handed over to people outside the family circle. No matter how loving and responsible the caregiver is, no one can replace the parent. No one can love your child the way you do.

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The message in Mother’s Pearls is to encourage the “revival of parenting” as it was in those more simple days, to return parenting to its rightful place – in the home, in the rocking chair, in the heart of those who love these little people the most. This book is an answering call for new parents to learn how to make it happen day by day in an atmosphere of joy, patience and love.

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Speech, Continued from page 5

to say wing instead of ring. Many people even find it cute. Most children master all speech sounds by the age of eight, acquiring new sounds in a developmental sequence, with the easier sounds learned before the more difficult ones. The following are average age estimates of when consonant production occurs. (Sanders, 1972)

p, m, h, n, w age 1.5 to 3 yearsb age 1.5 to 4 yearsk, g, d age 2 to 4 yearst, ng age 2 to 6 yearsf, y age 2.5 to 4 yearsr, l age 3 to 6 yearss age 3 to 8 yearsch, sh age 3.5 to 7 yearsz age 3.5 to 8 yearsj age 4 to 7 years v age 4 to 8 years/th/ as in ‘thumb’ age 4.5 to 7 years/th/ as in ‘that’ age 5 to 8 years/zh/ as in ‘measure’ age 6 to 8.5 years

Your children may misarticulate because they never properly learned how to make the sound or there may be some other underlying reason. Dental development makes a big impact on articulation. For example, if a kid is missing most of his front teeth you can’t expect him to make a good /s/ sound. However, if the problem is a poorly learned sound that is becoming a habit, it helps to first show your child a correct model. Raise the child’s awareness of what is involved in producing


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Erev Pesach, Continued from page 7

wine, (b) Kiddush – (Asher bachar banu, etc.), (c) Ner – the blessing over light, said holding two lit candles together, (d) Havdala – the blessing which starts with Ha’mavdil, (e) Zman – the Shecheyanu blessing. No blessing is made over spices.



Neot Kedumim, Continued from page 1

between the Jewish calendar and Israel’s seasons and agricultural cycle.

Other highlights are a world music performance by recorder artist Eitan Vardi and an exhibit by the Israel Flower Arrangers’ Association. On Thursday evening, April 28, from 20:00 to 22:00, items from the exhibit will be on sale.

Drinks and kosher for Pesach cakes are available at “Café B’Kislev”. (See ad on page 7.)

The Neot Kedumim staff wishes a happy and blessed Pesach to all and looks forward to welcoming you during Chol Hamoed.

Please see the ad on page 13 for the Chol Hamoed schedule at Neot Kedumim. For further information: www.n-k.org.il, 08-977-0770.

Speech, Continued fom page 10

a sound. Ask them to look at your face when you make the sound. Talk simply about what parts of our anatomy are used in sound production. Touch your teeth, lips, tongue and throat as you try out different sounds. Try the sounds loudly and softly. It helps to look in a mirror together and watch yourselves making all kinds of sounds. It’s a great idea to take some close-up video of your children talking and pause to show them how they look when they make the different sounds. I have to add that if your children have a good grounding of learning their letters and matching them with the sounds for reading and writing this will often promote improved articulation.

Conversely, articulation can adversely affect spelling in that if your children say “thun” for “sun”, they may spell the word incorrectly. Of course, with all these ideas you never want to be a nag. You just want to give praise when your child produces a good sound and encourage the child to practice that good sound. Speech therapists have infinitely more strategies up their sleeves, but I hope these ideas are a helpful start. The way people manage to produce a particular speech sound is a far more complex process than this short article indicates, but if carers are aware and can identify problems early enough this will greatly benefit their children.

Elly Waller is an Australian trained, Israeli licensed speech therapist. Elly runs Letterland English reading and writing programs for 4-7 year olds in Modiin.

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Ingredients6 medium potatoes till soft

1⁄4 to 1⁄2 C. of melted butter

2 C. of shredded cheese (preferably cheddar)

1⁄2 C. chopped scallions

1 pint of sour cream

1⁄4 tsp. pepper

1⁄2 tsp. salt

InstructionsBoil the potatoes until soft. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well. Bake in a shallow dish at 350 for

35 minutes or until the top is golden and crispy. The recipe can be doubled for a larger portion. This is a great Pesach recipe as well as a great erev Pesach recipe since it contains no matzo or matzo products. It’s delicious year round too!


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