In Parshas Bechukosai it discusses the concept of giving ma\’aser – a tenth of your produce to the kohanim. We made fruit bowls to represent the produce.
Parshas Bechukosai -בחקתי
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Parshas Behar – בהר
We made a shofar out of cinnamin rugelach to represent the shofar blown for the year of shmittah and yovel.
Parshas Acharei Mos – אחרי מות
Pashas Acharei Mos discusses the mitzvah of kisoy dam – covering the blood after shechting an animal. When an animal is killed it must be shechted over the ground and then its blood must be covered over.
We made a cake (the ground) with a layer of jelly (the blood) and a topping of crushed nuts (the covering).
אחרי מות יז:ג
Acharei Mos 17:3
Parshas Metzora -מצורע
Parshas Metzora discusses the different types of tzoraas and how they appear on houses, people, and garments.
Parshas Tazria – תזריע
The parsha starts off by discussing the karbons a woman brings when she gives birth.
Parshas Shemini – bugs – שמיני
In parshas Shemini it lists the kosher and non-kosher animals and the signs we use to tell them apart. All bugs, caterpillars, centipedes etc that crawl on the ground are not kosher. We made caterpillars to represent the non-kosher bugs.
שמיני יא:מא
Shemini 11:41
שמיני יא:מא
Shemini 11:41
Parshas Tzav – ashes – צו
Parshas Tzav discusses some of the karbonos the kohein brings. It describes how the kohen raises the left over ashes from the karbon and puts them next to the mizbeach. We made ice cream with crumbled cookies to look like ashes.
צו ו:ג
Tzav 6:3
Parshas Vayikra – Salt water – ויקרא
This parsha discusses the karbanos. Many of the karbons were salted and brought together with other spices.
We made salt water taffys to represent the salt.
We made salt water taffys to represent the salt.
Parshas Behar & Bechukosai – בהר-בחקתי
This week is a double parsha – Parshas Behar and Bechukosai. The mitzvos of shmittah and yovel are discussed, in which we are commanded to leave our fields un-plowed and not harvested for a year once every 7 years and again at the end of 7 cycles – once every 50 years.
We made cupcakes with green sprinkles to represent the fields and placed candy fruit on them to represent the fruit left out in the fields for anyone to take.
בהר – בחקתי כה:ב
Behar – Bechukosai 25:2
1- We made a batch of chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate Cake
2 C flour
2 c sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 c cocoa
1/2 c oil
1 1/3 c water
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
Add all together and mix well
Pour into cupcake tins
Bake at 350 until a toothpick poked in the center comes out clean
2 C flour
2 c sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 c cocoa
1/2 c oil
1 1/3 c water
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
Add all together and mix well
Pour into cupcake tins
Bake at 350 until a toothpick poked in the center comes out clean
2- Once cooled ice cupcakes with a mixture of powdered sugar, cocoa, and water.
3- While the icing is still wet, dip each cupcake into the green sprinkles.
4- Place candy fruit on top.
Parshas Emor – אמור
Parshas Emor discusses many of the holidays we celebrate throughout the year. The karbon omer, a handful of barley flour was brought on the second day of Chag Hamatzos (commonly known as Peseach). We are then commanded to count 7 weeks – 49 days. The 50th day is the holiday of Shavuos, the day we were told the 10 commandments, and given the Torah. On that day we are commanded to bring 2 loaves of bread from the new crop accompanied by a special selection of korbanos in addition to the korbanos of the holiday of Shavuos.
We made a calendar counting from Pesach until Shavuos.
אמור כג:טו
Emor 23:15
1- We made a batch of peanut chews
Peanut Chews
2 cups peanut butter
1 cup honey
1/2 lb dark baking chocolate
1 Tbsp water
4 cups Rice Krispies
2 cups chopped peanuts
10 oz white chocolate chips
Melt one cup of peanut butter with the water, honey and dark chocolate. Once completely melted add the Rice Krispies and chopped peanuts. Mix together well and spread evenly accross a flat cookie sheet. Once cooled, melt white chocolate chips and remaining cup of peanut better and spread across the top.
2 cups peanut butter
1 cup honey
1/2 lb dark baking chocolate
1 Tbsp water
4 cups Rice Krispies
2 cups chopped peanuts
10 oz white chocolate chips
Melt one cup of peanut butter with the water, honey and dark chocolate. Once completely melted add the Rice Krispies and chopped peanuts. Mix together well and spread evenly accross a flat cookie sheet. Once cooled, melt white chocolate chips and remaining cup of peanut better and spread across the top.
2- Once partially cooled we used a toothpick to draw the lines of the calendar.
3- We melted chocolate and placed it in a small bag. We pricked a small hole at the bottom of the bag and piped the chocolate along the toothpick-marked lines. We also crossed off the days that have already been counted (up until Shabbos).
4- We then used white and red sprinkles to make candles on the Shabbos days.
5- Finally, we took a large gumdrop and 2 Mike & Ike jellybeans and using toothpicks fixed them to the Shavous day on the calendar. We also placed 3 chocolate mint rounds for matzos on the Peasach days.