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Background: Yehoshua Perek 5

Yehoshua, after crossing the Yarden, circumcises the people, they eat the Korban Pesach, and

the manna stops.

Objective:

1. To break the ice. Learn your kids names, where theyre from, get a feel for personalities, and

establish yourself as a fun guy/gal. Play a fun introductory kind of game. Crack jokes. Tellstories. Let them get a little comfortable.

Your role model for this shiur.

2. To establish shiur as a time in which learning is done differently from the way that is done in

their usual school settings.

3. Bnei Yisrael made a transition from a desert life to a life in the land, and that means a

different approach is needed, just like shiur will be different in camp. God test Bnei Yisrael with

the manna to see if they will follow his Torah. But you only learn so much from tests, especially

when the alternative is starvation. When they get in the land, there are no longer tests, but theirfaith will mean more as it comes from their own work, instead of something they were forced to

do.

Trigger:

This will work backwards from the usual format. Usually the trigger sets up shiur,in which the

kids will learn what we want them to learn. Here, the shiur is the trigger, as it sets up what we

want them to come away with. Try to give yourself around 10-15 minutes after your icebreakers

for the purposes of the actual shiur.

After crossing into Eretz Yisrael, the manna stops.

1. Yehoshua, 5:12

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And the manna ceased on the day after, when they ate from the yield of the land, and the

Israelites no longer had manna, and they ate from the produce of the land of Canaan in that

year.

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2. Shemot 16:4

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God said to Moshe: "Behold, I will cause sustenance to rain down from heavens for you. The

people will go out to gather it each day, so that I might prove their resolve to see if they willfollow my Torah or not

Discuss: What is the purpose of the manna? What does this remind you of, in your daily life?

How would it be different than living off the produce of the land? Is one better than the other?

Content:

From there, discuss how shiur in camp will differ from the rest of the year. In school, they have

to learn, or else they wont do well. Here, no one is forcing you. But that means all the learning

you do is your own. Discuss what the rules should be for the shiur. How can we best work

together to both learn and have a fun time? Respect for each other, for you, raise hands, one

person at a time, etc etc.