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, yip I said it, 103 days until the best 3 weeks to hit 2019 so get signing up kiddos,
because you most certainly do not want to miss out!!!
#yesobvsicountedthedaysleftthisearly #didnoneofyoudothat?
But, as of now all we can do is carry on getting through school, work and winter (jokes
#hasitbeensummerinwinterthisweek?).
Just a super shoutout to Noah Marks and Ariella Lazarus for heading to Israel on Monday!
Massive Shkoyach to you both and Behatzlacha on your journeys in the Holy Land!
#wewillmissyou #falafeleveryday?

“You shall love the “newcomer”, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

Aaron was very nervous. He had just moved to a new community and wasn't sure what it
would be like. Would he fit in? Would the people be nice? He walked in to Shul nervous
and tense; it was his first time attending. He looked around hoping someone would come
over but no one said a word to him. He found an empty seat and sat down. A minute later
a man walked over and tapped him on the shoulder. Aaron felt excited that finally
someone would make him feel at home.

"I'm sorry," the man said, "but you're sitting in someone's seat. Please vacate it."

Aaron stood up and remained in the aisle; feeling extremely uncomfortable...

Although converts are included in the commandment to love one's fellow Jew, the Torah
nevertheless added an additional mitzvah to love the convert who is a stranger to his new
environment. The Chinuch broadens this commandment to include all strangers, such as a
newcomer to a neighborhood or country , a new student in a school, or a new employee.

When someone is in a new situation he feels insecure and uncomfortable. Just doing a
small thing such as approaching him with a warm smile and asking him his name may help
him in a big way.
"Although to the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may just be
the world!“

(Adapted 1 minute vort @ Weekly Positive Word Power Ideas :
aish.com) May we all be open and warm to the
newcomers in our environments.
#goodthoughtsforlife

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In this week's Torah portion, Moses tells the Jewish people that after they enter the Land
of Israel they must:
"Take care lest your forget the Lord, your God ... and you build good houses and ... you
increase silver and gold ... and everything you have will increase ... and you will forget the
Lord, your God, who took you out of ... Egypt from a house of slavery..."
A LIFE LESSON:
Moses made an emphatic plea to all of the Jewish people never to forget that God is the
true and only source of everything - including all of the financial success they ever have.
Why was it necessary for Moses to drive this point home with such intensity?
The reason is that human beings habitually feel that when things go well, it was their doing
and not God's. But if things go poorly, then it's God's fault and not theirs. We tend to take
personal credit for things that go well in our lives and blame others if they go poorly. Think
about it.
When something isn't going right in our lives (and if we believe that God exists and has the
power to give us anything) we usually ask God to make things better. Whether it's through
formalized prayer or a heartfelt request, we really do instinctively recognize the true and
only source of everything and will ask the One who can instantly make something change.
And although it might not be exactly what that you asked for or in your time table (because
only God knows what's truly best for you), God usually answers our prayers. The fact is,
God delivers time and time again.

Moses knew this all too well. But he also knew human nature just as well. So, he pleaded
with the Jewish people that when "everything you have will increase," don't forget for one
second who gave it to you.

Sadly, we forget this over and over again. We look at our newfound changed circumstances
and somehow take personal credit for what we now have. If you're going to "blame" God
when things don't go your way and ask Him to make things much better for you, simply
saying "Thank God" when things get better isn't enough. Because unless you live with the
reality that it was God Who made things better, then you will have missed an enormous
opportunity to get closer to the One who controls all.
Don't forget Who the only source of your blessings is. In the same way you don't take
credit for your sparkling blue eyes, the picturesque sunset, or the gorgeous multi-colored
rose bush, so too, don't take credit for your monetary success. Know that the same source
of "nature" that surrounds you is the same source of everything else you have. If you can
live with this reality, know that you'll literally be walking with God.

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Name:

Shicvah: Orot

Q. Funny childhood nickname?
A. Loonks

Q. Choose a movie/book title for the story of your life?
A. The Torah ✡

Q. What are two truths and one lie about you?
A. I can't really ride a bike, I skipped a grade, my one leg is
longer than the other

Q. If you could fill a swimming pool with ANYTHING in the
world, what would it be?
A. Ice-cream... It's been my childhood dream
Q. What’s the cheesiest movie moment or line you can think of?

A. Just keep swimming

Q. Do you have any strange phobias?

A. Tripping down a flight of stairs

Q. Name the song you know all the lyrics to:
A. Beshem Hashem Once a rova girl always a rova girl.

Q. What’s your spirit animal and why?
A. A giraffe, I get it from my dad

Q. Life motto at the moment?
A. Don't stop believin

Q. What are 3 adjectives that best describe you?
A. Tall, gentle and loves the Kruger... Told you I was a giraffe

Q. One interesting fact that you should know about me is….?
A. I broke both my baby toes

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My favourite baked good is My favourite baked good
definitely a hot frangelicas has to be the parev

Bar One muffin chocolate chip cookies
#GurimismakingBarOnemuf from Lilicious!

finsoncamp Yuuummyyy

#ThanksMilan Yallaaa Doorrroossss
Hello Guuurim! Hope the week has been
Hope you all had a fantastic absolutely swell. Nothing
like a beautiful shabbos to
week!
We had such fun at Sandton top it off. We are truly
blessed fellas
Sinai this week! We can't
wait to see you guys on A big ups to @moledet and

camp

A joke to end off: How do @roim for getting involved

you make water holy? in our tuckshop initiative!
You boil the hell out of it Lovely to see Dorot leading

Shabbat Shalom the way
#TheTrendSetters
Yoni Rosenthal

P.S. Sign up for camp. No

one likes being on the

Chocolate croissant @MilanLevy waiting list ‍♂
Bonjour Moledet ‍ May we all have an

If you haven't signed up for camp , you are unbelievable
doing the wrong thing shabbos,Dorot
Over and out
Tyler Richter

Shabbat shalom

Love Team Moledet

Ariel Kahanovitz

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To be honest anything that is freshly baked I will not say no to.
What's up Orot

Mad to believe that a another week has flown by. Hope you all are hanging in
there with the work load and all the stress. If you have a bit of time in between

all the studying don't forget to sign up
On the current sign up leader board KDL is dominating with a woping 10 sign

ups despite being on encounter
Good luck all for the week ahead. Everyone from VP enjoy encounter and

everyone else have a shabbat shalom.
Peace and love
Team Orot

Yoni Mindel

The insides of Friday night camp challah with some spilled soup

Good shabbas Hineinachos and cheese or even just an avo dip yeah I could

definitely go for an avo dip mmmm

Howziiit everyone hope we all had a cracker of a week! (apparently that's a

cracker)

Ok so I've got good news and bad news...

Bad news: This is our 2nd last camp together as Shevet Hineini ever

Good news : We can still sign up for it so please get to that asap cos it's just not

one to miss!!

Happiest of Birthdays to Jared Nel for Tuesday woohoo

Otherwise Hineni stay fresh, stay blessed and we'll see you soon✌ Amen Love

you all❤

Shabbat shalom

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1.Moses told the children of Israel that if they follow God’s commandments, God would

remove all the sickness and evil diseases they had in Egypt. What would become of those
diseases?
2. Moses realized that the people were afraid to fight against nations who seemed strong
and numerous. To allay their fears, what did Moses tell the people to do?
3. Moses tells the children of Israel that even after they defeat all their enemies, there
would still be some hiding out and ready to defeat the Israelites. What did Moses promise
would happen to these people?
4. The children of Israel were told to be most careful not to adopt the gods of the nations.
How were they to dispose of the idols which they found?
5. Moses anticipated a future danger for the children of Israel when they become wealthy
and satisfied with their position in the land. What did he say could happen?
6. For what reasons were the children of Israel allowed to possess the Land?
7. When God saw, time after time, how wicked and stiff-necked the children of Israel were,
He offered a new deal to Moses. What was it?
8. Moses fasted 40 days and nights to prevent God from making good on His contingency
plan. What was Moses’ argument that convinced God not to destroy the people?

1. God would lay them upon those who hated Israel.
2. Moses told them to remember what God did to Pharaoh and all of Egypt, and that He would do the same
to the nations the people would encounter.
3. Moses told them that God would send hornets that would chase the stragglers out into the open.
4. They were told to burn the idols with fire, being careful not to remove the gold and silver.
5. Moses said that the people could forget all that God had done for them, and say in their heart, “my
power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
6. They were allowed to possess the Land because of God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
because of the wickedness of the people already living there. Moses emphasizes that it is not because the
children of Israel were righteous–in fact, they had defied God time after time.
7. The new deal was that God would blot out the children of Israel and make a new, bigger, and more holy
nation from Moses.
8. Moses argued that God had redeemed the people from Egypt and taken them into the desert. If God
were to destroy the people, the Egyptians would say that God had not been powerful enough to take them
into the land, and that He hated them so much, He took them into the wilderness to destroy them.

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1. A boy and a Doctor went Wanna hear a joke about
fishing. The boy was the Doctors construction?
son but the Doctor wasn't the
boys father. Who is the Doctor? I’m still working on it

I run over fields and woods all I used to be addicted to soap…
day, under the bed at night I sit, I’m clean now
but not alone. My tongue hangs
out, up and to the rear, awaiting What do you call a fat psychic?
to be filled in the morning. What A 4 chin teller
am I?
What do you call a guy that never
farts in public?
A private tooter

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A1. The Doctor 10
was the sons

mother!
A2. A shoe!

A1. Advice B’’h
A2. Soap
A3. A nose What does everyone need, want, but
never take?

What gets smaller every time you
take a bath?

I can breathe but not talk, run but not
walk and can be picked but never
chosen. What am I?

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