This year in homeschool we are studying through history from Creation to the time of the Greeks. A part of this is studying Old Testament Celebrations and Feasts (which in many areas also correspond to Jewish celebrations\/feasts).<\/p>\n
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Our first celebration was observing the Sabbath in accordance with Old Testament and Jewish traditions.<\/p>\n
The week before we celebrated the Sabbath the preparations began.<\/p>\n
We made a challah bread covering.<\/p>\n
We made centerpiece Star of David floating candles (even cutting wick out of the center of candles so we could reuse it because you work with what you have access to).<\/p>\n
And it was exhausting thanks to the heat index plus the kitchen heat, but we enjoyed sweating to death cooking as we prepped for the Sabbath weekend.<\/p>\n
Then we celebrated! And it was a wonderful time of acknowledging God our Creator and Redeemer as well as understanding more fully the Old Testament observance of the Sabbath.<\/p>\n\n
The girls are already asking to do it again. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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