Amanda Lopatin B`nai Amoona

Amanda Lopatin
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather their fruit,
pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh. And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden,
and from prospect to prospect.”
– Ibn Tibbon, Spanish Jewish scholar
Benjamin Schenberg
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to Him for that
reason.
– Elie Wiesel
Danielle Serota
“Shmah Yisrael Adonai Elocheinu Adonai Echad”
Edan Goldfarb
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“The difference between a human being and an animal is that the
animal doesn’t have the emotional connection to others”
– Rabbi Aslag from the introduction to ZOHAR BOOK
Haley Abramson
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
According to the Talmud, “When the Temple stood, the altar offered atonement. Now, one’s table offers
atonement” (Tractate Chagigah 27a). Today, the primary means of divine worship involves having meals at
home. Blessings before and after the meal, ritual foods, and family participation transform eating from a
mundane activity into a religious experience.
– Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Ian Hollander
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.”
Jamie Oberman
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
Judaism to me, is not a kippah on a man’s head or my sisters curly brown hair, it is trying new things, being
who I want to be, and making friends along the way.
Jonathan Samuels
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“And God Created the Heaven and the earth…”– Genesis 1:1
Kyla Gersten
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.” – Psalms 137:5
Marit Sosnoff
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens, Praise Him in the celestial heights.”
Max Alper
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
Missing Quote
Miriam Goldstein
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
“Next year in Jerusalem” – Passover Haggadah
Trevor Schwartz
B’nai Amoona-Grade 6
The yarmulke is an indication that one recognizes that there is
something above you.
It says “Above my intellect is a sign of godliness.”