Rabbi Shneur Silberberg
explains the message of the
shofar end instructs children
on how to make their own.
New Year Blast
A
bout 400 people participated
in the Shofar Factory and pre-
High Holiday fun Sept. 18 at
the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield. Sunday school students par-
ticipated in the morning, and the program
was open to the public in the afternoon.
Adults and children enjoyed learning
about bees and honey from beekeeper
Joel Letvin, how to inscribe their names
in Hebrew Torah letters from Rabbi Levi
Kagan, dipping apples in caramel and top-
pings, designing honey dishes and seeing
a fascinating exotic shofar display.
But the highlight was when participants
crafted their own shofars from genuine
ram's horns.
Rabbi Shneur Silberberg of Bais
Chabad explained to the group that the
blasts of the shofar are wake-up calls.
"They resemble the sound of a baby's
cry, as we are God's babies begging to be
heard on the important day of judgment,"
he said. "Rosh Hashanah is the time to
shake out of our spiritual slumber, recon-
nect to our source and recommit to our
divine mission in this world."
Earlier in the week, the traveling Shofar
Factory stopped at Hillel Day School
and Temple Israel Hebrew School, where
Silberberg and two yeshiva students from
New York brought shofars, drills, a stuffed
ram and shofar inspiration to more than
600 boys and girls and their parents.
The Shofar Factory is sponsored by the
Hyman and Sonya Blumenstein Outreach
Division of Bais Chabad, the Sara and
Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah
Center, Shalom Street, the JCC's Charach
Art Gallery and the Sherrill Berman Art
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Chabad Shofar Factory helps students learn about shofars and create their own.
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Scribe Rabbi Levi Kagan helps Ashton
Spector, 4, of Farmington Hills, write his
name in Hebrew, while his mother, Marci
Spector looks on.
Nisson Deitsch of Brooklyn, helps
Temple Kol Ami Hebrew School students
Jacob Cassel, 9, of Commerce and Maya
Keen, 8, of Farmington Hills make their
shofars.
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Amira Skoczylas of West Bloomfield
helps her grandson Aaron Skoczylas,
2, of Southfield with an apple-shaped
honey dish project.
Ethan and Lisa Gilan of West Bloomfield watch their children, Eden, 11, and Jonah, 9, J.J. Jacobs, 6, of Southfield, takes a
bite of a sprinkle-coated apple.
make candy apples with the help of volunteer Molly Shomer of West Bloomfield.