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Rainbow Day: The fifth-grade class at Hebrew Day School with Head of
School Dina Shtull, third from left, and teacher Nehama Glogower.

Stressing Tzedakah

Ann Arbor day school students learn
from Noah.

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November 30 8 2006

Chen as he placed additional
weights on a makeshift scale
oah of biblical
as the levels of giving tzeda-
times could have
kah were described.
benefited from
A visit to the school by
earplugs to muffle all the
nationally known tzeda-
animal noise aboard his
kah educator Danny Siegel
ark.
enhanced the learning expe-
Ann Arbor Hebrew
rience. Students collected
Day School's own version
money for Siegel to buy a doll
of Noah's Ark is just as
favored by Israeli children
crowded with animals, but
who have undergone trauma.
much quieter, because the
Siegel said he would make
Third-grader Hava
animals — so many they
sure the doll finds its way to a
Kaplan hugs the
are piled on top of each
needy
family.
doll used to comfort
other — are stuffed toys.
After
paying for a doll, the
Israeli children who
Some newly purchased
children divided up the left-
have experienced
trauma.
and others nearly new,
over money to do their own
the animals were
Mitzvah Missions.
donated by HDS
Working in pairs,
students in honor
they went to stores to
of Yom Keshet,
buy shampoo bottles,
Rainbow Day, annu-
toothpaste and tooth-
ally celebrated at the
brushes, books and
school to honor and
more stuffed animals
emulate Noah, who
to donate to different
was righteous in
charities. Two stu-
his generation. The
dents went shopping
HDS/JCC Brownie
for a plant they will
Troop will bring the
bring to a nursing
animals to Ronald
home.
McDonald House.
Other students are
Fifth-graders Avishag Eliav and
The students
collecting
videos to
Miriam Hamermesh hold stuffed
picked from the
bring
to
the
hospi-
animals in front of Noah's Ark.
best of their home
tal."We don't need
collections as they
any money for our
responded to learning of the proper ways
Mitzvah Mission," said Seth Stancroff and
to give tzedakah — willingly and gener-
Isaac Shore.
ously. On Yom Keshet, fifth-grade students
"It is more than their generosity of giv-
performed a skit about Maimonides' eight ing that impresses me',' says Dina Shtull,
levels of giving tzedakah, from the bottom head of school. "It is their generosity of
rung of giving grudgingly to the highest
spirit. I'd like to capture and clone their
rung of teaching a skill that can lead to
excitement about doing Mitzvah Missions.
self-support.
We all have a lot to learn from them. Like
"The fifth-graders will help balance
Noah, they are the righteous in their gen-
the scale of justice," said narrator Tomer
eration:'

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