Birkat Chaverim
![Stela of ‘Kharser’. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Charles E. Wilbour Archival Collection [9.4.004]](https://birkatchaverim.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/steel-famine.jpg "stela 7 year famine Egypt")
A few weeks ago I linked to a few posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus because of a parsha connection. This week there is another one. In Parshat Miketz there's the story of Pharoh's dreams and the seven year famine.The Brooklyn museum has a stela which talks of a seven year famine in Egypt. Although it seems that the stela is from a later perio ...
I thought it would be neat to link to some posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus this week since in this week's parsha due to a famine Abraham and Sara end up in Egypt. Apparently there is very little written about the process of how Egyptians made Papyrus, and pictorial depictions don't really explain how the sheets were formed. The Brooklyn ...
This project is similar to the felt latkes we made for Chanukkah. Easy to do by hand or by machine. In the case of felt matzot, matzahs or matzos (choose your preferred spelling :) ), they also need to be "browned". We did this with brown felt marker but I kept thinking about using rectangular erasers and paint. These are pretty self explanitory- cu ...
I was just motivated to write this Pesach post by a great facebook group started by a friend called "Great Seder Ideas for Kids!" There are lots of great ideas and looking at who is posting you can see a great many people who have been involved in informal and formal education. So really many many creative ideas. Their website Sicha Basadeh is also a ...
One idea for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah who is celebrating around the time of Passover, is to learn about the Haggadah, create your own commentary and illustrations and create a Haggadah. I was recently reminiscing about a bat mitzvah i attended many years ago, that took place before the holiday of Passover. The Bat Mitzvah girl had researched Haggadot fr ...