Parshas Tazriah - Metzorah / Model Bris Milah

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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'ahavah (with love). So he’s showing the person that got tzara'as that he should have ahavas yisrael and do teshuva for saying lashon hara. Sometimes people would find a treasure when they would break down the walls of the house that had tzara'as that the previous owners had hidden there.

Model Bris Milah

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!

Here is the list of jobs. We had the students bring in props for their given job. We wrote the name of each job on labels and each kid wore their label.

Kvatterin Brings the baby into the room where the brit will take place. She hands the baby to the kvatter.	Kvatter Places the baby on Elijah’s chair. The kvatter and kvatterin are usually a couple who would like to have baby themselves.
Sandek (Primary) Holds the baby during the actual circumcision.	Elijah’s Chair This is the chair that the sandek sits on while the baby has his brit. Elijah the prophet is seen as the one who is the defender of our covenant with Hashem.
Sandek (Secondary) Holds the baby while he’s being named.	Mohel A well trained individual, not necessarily a Rabbi or doctor who performs the actual cutting.

Parsha Songs

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Speaking badly of others is not a kind act

For once you hurt someone, you can’t take it back

As punishment for lashon hara a terrible deed

The sickness of tzoroas, was then decreed

If a white spot was found on the body or neck

A man had to go to the kohain to check

If it was tzoraas beyond any doubt

From the camp of Yisroel, he had to go out

Seven days completely alone were spent

For the things he did wrong, he had to repent

If his t’shuuah was honest and real

At the end of the week he was totally healed

In eight more days if his skin was still clear

After bringing korbonos and serious prayer

He then returned to his family and friends

And was careful not to speak lashon hara, again