TBS Teen Programs

Hi!!!  This is Liana Perlman from Liron's Sunday Hebrew class.  I want to tell you all about the things we are doing in our Hebrew classes.  We are studying the Yotzer Or.  The Yotzer Or is about how we thank G-d for the daytime.  Every day when we come into class, we start reading the Yotzer Or in small groups or as an entire class.  Sometimes we only read a line-a-person.  Now, each person reads multiple lines.  Day by day, our reading improves and we are starting to memorize this prayer.  After we read, we break into groups and play Hebrew games such as Hebrew Uno, or Hebrew Go Fish.  This helps us to strengthen our everyday Hebrew and our T'filah Hebrew.  Sometimes we go to meet my dad, Rabbi Jay Perlman.  There, we learn the meaning of prayer, why we pray, and why we feel the need to pray.  Sometimes he will give us homework.  Our homework for the past few weeks was to pick a prayer in the sidur, read the prayer in English, and make a poster or project for that prayer.  This project was self explanatory.  We could include anything in the project we wanted to, but everything we did had to relate to the prayer in some way.  As our bonds in the class grow ever stronger, so does our understanding of Hebrew.