שלום בין כל עמ"י

Goal: 1. The Chanichim will understand that the homeland of Am Israel is in Eretz

Israel.

          2. The Chanichim will understand that when we are not in Eretz Yisrael our      qualities are not good as they can be in

Israel.

1. To learn the story of the

Tower of

Bavel

2. To think about the dispersion of the Jewish people today

3. To consider what linked us together in the past and continues to bind us together today

To teach the chanachim how

Israel is on a higher level than any other place just because God said so.

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.