Bnei Buzz (24-10-19) (parshat Beresheet)

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ow, it’s been a while! The sukkas are coming down, which means one thing, the chaggim
are officially over #fullfordays #baruchhashemforgym and that means camp is even closer.
41 days closer, isn’t that mad!!!!! Anyways, it was lovely seeing you all over the chaggim,

keep up the gees and good luck for the upcoming exam season for all our maddies
#sendthemamemeor2tobrightentheirdays

“In the beginning of God’s creating….”

God began the Torah with the word Bereishis – in the beginning – which starts
with the Hebrew letter Beis. The Midrash teaches that the first Hebrew letter
Aleph was dissatisfied that it had been passed over. It complained, “I am the very
first letter and yet I was left out at the beginning of the Torah!” God promised the
Aleph, “You will see justice done. When I give the Torah to my children at Mount
Sinai, I shall commence with the letter Aleph.” When God gave the Ten
Commandments to the Jewish people He placed an Aleph at the beginning:
Anochi – I am the Lord your God….

Why did God ignore the Aleph at the beginning of the Torah, only reinstating it to
its proper position when giving the Torah to the Jewish nation?

Living in the created physical world, we tend to give priority to our physical needs.
We make sure to find a good job, a nice home, and as many conveniences as
possible. Only once these points are settled, we try to find a shul or yeshiva in
which to learn Torah and pray, regardless of our actual standards – near where we
live. We attach the “Aleph” – the primary concern – to the attainment of a
satisfactory material standard of living. The Torah is relegated to “Beis”, secondary
rank. However, as the Mishnah states: learning Torah must be man’s primary
occupation. One’s work schedule should be designed to accommodate one’s Torah
learning, not vice versa. God therefore left out the Aleph, and deliberately
prefaced the count of the six days of creation of the physical world with a Beis.
The “Aleph”, our primary concern, must be for the Torah.

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In this weeks parsha Bereishit, it speaks about
creation of the world. The days of creation are all
spoken about in the same way until the sixth day -
yom hashishi which we say in Kiddish. For this day
there’s a ‫ה‬before the word shishi unlike all the other
days where the ‫ה‬isn’t present. But why is there a ‫ה‬
at the beginning of ‫יום השישי‬
One of the answers is that the ‫ה‬represents the five
books of the Torah and the entire creation which
ended on the sixth day, the entire creation occurred
for the sake of the ‫ ה‬,the five books of the Torah.
Even though the Torah was only given 2448 years
later, we can see here already at the time of
creation, that Hashem wants us to know that
everything in the world that was created in Bereshit
was for the sake of the Torah .

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Simchat Torah was The hakafos featuring Yoni
uuuuunreal. Mindel

My favourite part is the What a time
dancing! Camp is in 39 days
Moledet’s question for the
Hello Gurim It's been a while,
missing you guys and girls! week...
How much Orot could an
Counting down the days till we
are jamming it up down in OrotDorot Dorot if an
OrotDorot could Dorot Orot?
Hartenbos. Good luck to all the
matrics with finals A joke Have the most sublime
to end off:Did you hear about shabbos!

the circus fire? Love Team Moledet
It was in-tents Ariel Kahanovitz
Have a good shabbas!
Yoni Rosenthal

My favorite part of Chag was My favorite part of Chag is
definitely the carnival because we hands down the insanely
absolutely rocked it and had the best delicious food . Why does food
just taste better on sukkot?
time playing games , winning Howzit Roim, how you? I hope
prizes and having the craziest ice your sukkot was as unbelievable,
cream party . Can’t believe how uplifting & inspiring as it is
soon camp is so I hope you all getting supposed to be 39 days, 936
so excited because we definitely are!! hours, 56160 seconds until roim
Riddle of the week: What has to be takes over the campsite
broken before you can use it? Come #heist Good luck to our
find me and let me know what it is beautiful madrichim who are
writing exams Shabbat
Hope you all have a beautiful shalom roim hustlers XXX
ShabbasLots of love always The KT
The Roim tribe❤
Team ❤ Dena Cohen
Gabi Uria
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Definitely spending it with family

My favourite part about Chag is and Friends❤

definitely just chilling in the sukkah Howzit howzit you wonderful

24/7 #ILived#InMySukkah#Koolulam Homosapiens Hope you all had the

Hello there Dorot, It certainly has most wonderful holiday and chagim

been a while and I certainly have filled with good food, good laughs,

missed all of you All I can say for some torah and mitzvahs I know

now is, Dorot, History has been made. you all have exams coming soon but

#TrendSetters just remember all they going to do is

Shabbat shalom friends, ask you questions, all you have to do

Love Dorot is give them answers. Any ways the

Tyler Richter sooner they start, the sooner they

finish and the sooner we will be on

Machaneh DC rocking the camp site
like never before Shabbat shalom

to you all and good luck.

Peace and Love
Yoni Mindel

Sorry but I'm still not convinced it's really over...Good shabbas Hineinoboys
in girls' tents

Hope we all had a siick Sukkot and that no one exploded from all the

food Update: I have no doubt that Moshiach is coming any minute now
but in the unlikely event that he decides to wait a little longer, you should all
start counting down the sleeps because there are only 3⃣9⃣ more until the best
holiday of yo life begins Massive week of birthdays for us so best wishes to
Charlie Norwich, Jamie Shur, Daniel Beder, Michael Rock, Eron Norrie and Ollie

Norrie woohoo Joke of the week: Thanks for explaining the word many to
me. It means a lot ‍♂Not a joke of the week: Your maddies and I proper love

you all so so much❤May Hashem bless our country with water, electricity and
a rugby team that goes all the way Amen!Shabbat shalom fam

Gilad Kohaly

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Questions

1.God made two great lights. What were they and what did they do?
2. On a certain number of days, God reviewed His work and said, “It was good.” On how
many days did He say this?
3. On one day God said something different. Which day was that and what did He say and
why?
4. What was God’s first commandment to the fish, creeping creatures, and fowl He created?
5. What was God’s first commandment to man?
6. God said that man could eat from every tree in the garden, save one. Which one and
why?
7. A river flowed out of Eden and then parted and became four rivers. Name three of the
rivers.
8. What did God tell Adam and Eve their punishment would be if they ate from the Tree of
Knowledge? What did Eve tell the serpent God had said?
9. After eating of the fruit what was the serpent’s punishment? What was Eve’s? What was
Adam’s?
10. Having eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, what did God fear man would do next?

Answers

1.God created the sun to rule the day and the moon to rule the night.
2. God said “It was good” on five days of creation.
3. On the sixth day God said “It was very good,” because God had created man and the
living creatures.
4. “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas and let the fowl multiply on earth”
5. “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion over all
living things.”
6. God forbad people from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, lest they come to know as
much as God.”
7. The four rivers were the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates”
8. God told Adam and Eve: “If you eat of the fruit you shall surely die” ; Eve told the serpent,
“You shall not eat of it nor touch it or you will die .”
9. The serpent’s punishment was to crawl on its belly and eat dust; Eve’s punishment was
pain in childbirth; Adam’s punishment was working hard for a living .
10. God feared man would eat from the Tree of Life and live forever.

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1. I can shave every day but my I just burnt this Hawaiian pizza
beard stays the same. Who am I? Guess I should have used aloha
temperature
2. I am a rare case when today
comes before yesterday. What am Why cant bicycles stand up on
I? their own?
They’re two tired
3. When liquid splashes me, none
seeps through. When I move a lot, I have a fear of elevators, but
liquid I spew. When I am hit, color don’t worry, I’ve started taking
I change. And colors, I come in steps to avoid
quite a range. What I cover is
quite complex, yet I am very easy
to flex.
What am I?

A1.A barber 7
A2. The

dictionary
A3. Skin

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