This week's Torah portion Toldos, we learn about two very different personalities. The second Jewish couple (Yitzchak and Rivka) gave birth to twin boys, Yakov and Esav.
Yakov, lived his life filled with Mitzvos and Esav the opposite.
We each have fighting voices inside of us a "Yakov voice", that tells us to make good choices and an "Esav voice", that tells us to do not good.
This is a huge life lesson especially at this tender age when they are experimenting with their own self identity.
It is okay when we have those thoughts of doing not good, we all do! However what will we do with it and when we do make mistakes how will we fix them?
During circle time we role played how they each talk.
Friends helping our Yakov puppet give tzedakah.
Menachem, working on his pants on his Yakov puppet. Ben, adding a lot of red items to his puppet when we learned how Esav was born with red hair all over his body.
Catching those yakov moments this week was heart warming.
Intentionally doing a group art where individual space can be blurred to practice using our yakov voices.
Leaving the puppets out for friends to role play different scenarios.
Using the puppets we made by circle time to talk to each other.
After coloring a picture with white crayon we sprayed water and covered it with tissue paper. While drying, the tissue paper will bleed colors onto the paper and reveal their picture underneath.
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