There is a mitzva for us to count 49 days, 7 weeks, between Pesach and Shavuot. In fact, the Torah doesn’t even give us a date for Shavuot, it simply tells us that it is the 50th day after Pesach. Originally this time was the period that we could not eat new wheat. On shavuot they would bring the korban omer, and then wheat grown that year could be eaten.

Goal:  To examine the concept of z’chira as it derives from TaNaCH and how collective memory shapes us as a nation

To give the chanichim an experience which will help them comprehend what it is like to live in an oppressive society and remind them to appreciate their own freedom.

To discuss how

Israel should deal with the mass aliyah from the former

USSR,

Ethiopia… and how we must relate to new olim.

Show the history of people trying to destroy the Jews, and how we must trust Hashem to protect us as He always has