How does a person hate evil? How does a person love well? This week we continued our unit on Tzedek-Justice. We started the week by establishing justice and welcoming everyone into Makom Community by practicing good discussion, infused with intentional listening and sharing our own ideas. During snacktime learning, we studied a text from Amos and discussed the importance of loving good and hating evil. “Hate evil and love good, And establish justice in the gate”Amos 5:15
Many of our students had some touching ideas of what this looked like.
*If you are good, you hate evil and you are making a peaceful environment
*You hate evil by being nice to the world.
*When you let all communities come together you are loving well.
*You can help someone who makes a bad a mistake.
*Justice is the same as freedom; hate evil, love good.
During Shulchanot Avodah, we explored more ways to express our love for the world. We read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids which related to our discussion of Amos. In this book, we read about how we can spread love and kindness wherever we go. We continued on to brainstorm our own ways that we can fill other people’s imaginary buckets through our own actions.
Next, we focused on learning three new melodies to the prayer Lo Yisa Goy it is now becoming a popular tune to sing around here, just like Mah Tovu! We created art with own peace glasses and depicted what our peaceful version of the world would look like through our own imaginary glasses. In our shulchan ivrit, we played aleph-bet bingo, which was a lot of fun! We also created our own prophetic rants which proved that our students have some fantastic ideas of how to shape our world and make it into a better place.
