MESSAGES A TRANSMETTRE:

a) Donner envie de faire Shabbat, montrer une image positive et non restrictive de ce jour saint.

b) Faire comprendre que Shabbat est une Mitswa que l'on doit s'efforcer de respecter.

To teach the chanachim that For most of us, to get to

Israel all we have to do is get on a plane.   It wasn’t so easy for most of our history, though.  For many years, Jews were not allowed in.  Sometimes it is hard to appreciate how hard it was for so many people now living in Israel to make Aliyah (and maybe how comparatively easy it is for us?).

To become familiar with Rabbi Akiva and to understand the reasons that the תנועה is names after him, and to understand the importance of names in general.