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Watch the story of Rabbi Shimon in 30 seconds featuring our Lag Ba'omer puppets . Download  our Lag Ba'omer puppets to help you tell the story of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Story of Rabbi Akiva We heard the story of Rabbi Akiva. How he didn’t even know the alef beis when he  was 40 years old. His wife, Rochel, encouraged him to learn Torah. One day he saw a rock with a hole in it from constant water dripping on it. He said "if a rock is so hard, and water so soft, but from constant dripping it can create a hole in the rock, then my brain, too, can absorb Torah if I try. It’s never too late to start learning Torah! Lag Ba'omer and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai We learned about Lag Ba’omer. We heard the story of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. How he had to hide from the Romans in a cave with his son, Rabbi Elazar for 12 years. Hashem made a miracle and a carob tree grew for them to eat, even though normally it takes 70 years to grow. A stream of water sprung up for th

Click here to view our Parshat Tazria summary in 20 seconds. Get these adorable puppets here . Download our Tazria coloring pages here .   Parshas Tazriah - Metzorah Summary We learned in this week’s parsha that we need to give a baby boy a bris when he is 8 days old. We acted out a bris. Each child had a different job and we had kvatterin, sandek, sandek me’umad, mohel and the baby's parents. We had a chair for Eliyahu Hanavi and our seudas mitzvah was lunch! We learned about the karbanos a woman brings when she has a baby. She brings a sheep and a bird, unless she doesn’t have money to afford a lamb. Then she brings 2 birds. We learned about tzara'as. A person gets tzara'as because he spoke lashon hara. Clothing and houses can also get tzara'as as a warning that if they don’t do teshuva, they may get tzara'as . The Rebbe says that a kohen was the one to make them pure, because a kohen symbolizes ahavas yisrael. The bracha by birchas kohanim ends off with באהבה - b