Parshas Re’eh

Supplies

1. Cardboard
2. Printed bird template
3. Grains: Wheat kernels, red lentils, green lentils, popcorn kernels, black rice
4. Elmer’s glue stick and liquid clear glue
5. Ribbon
6. Hole puncher or scissors
7. Paintbrush

Instructions

1. Glue the bird print out to the card board using glue stick.
2. Punch 2 holes on top of the cardboard
3. Take liquid glue and apply to the borders of bird’s wings. Put black rice grains in one line where you applied the glue. Repeat with all other borders, a bit at a time
4. Now apply liquid glue to each part of the picture and stick the grains according to the numbers:

1 – red lentils

2 – pop corn

3 – black rice

4 – green lentils

5 – wheat kernels

5. When the whole picture is ready put 4 heavy objects on each corner of the picture so it doesn’t curve while drying
6. When dry put a ribbon in the holes and tie.
7. Your bird feeder is ready! Now put it outside and see the birds coming!

Template- Bird Mosaic

Specialty Item List

Imagine…

In each of us we have two little voices. One is our G-dly voice, the voice that is completely and totally connected to G-d and wants nothing more then to always be united. The other is of animalistic nature, it looks out for himself, making sure there are enough food and necessities for it to survive. Both are us, and it is our job to help our G-dly voice change our animalistic one for the better. But how? Our two voices definitely don’t mix together.

Delving Deeper

The Torah teaches us how to treat animals, we must first make sure all their needs are met, they are fed and safe, only then can we go ahead make sure we are fed. Same is true with our voices, we must first make sure our animalistic side is fed, we must make sure it is happy and only then can we begin to teach it to create a better version of itself by bettering itself one step at a time, this way the G-dly voice will be able to making the world a more holy place and our animalistic voice with be it’s helper, navigating the physical aspects in our world.

Point to Ponder

What are things you can do that bring together your G-dly voice and animalistic voice? (giving our hard-earned money to charity uses both our animalistic side, earning the money and the physical act of giving and our Godly side, by powering the want and fueling the willpower to give our money away.)