Trading Cards Put End to Children’s Blessing Confusion
A new set of trading cards is helping Jewish children keep their foodstuffs straight, teaching them about the world of blessings made before eating.
While many can recall the blessings made over wine – such as at a Sabbath meal – or on bread, there are in fact, six distinct blessings, known in Hebrew as brochos. It can be a confusing melee for anyone learning about the intricacies of Jewish practice, a fact that led Rabbi Moishe Wiener, a fourth-grade teacher at the Chabad-Lubavitch day school in Monsey, N.Y., to come up with a way to make these oft-repeated blessings both accessible and fun.
According to Wiener, making a blessing on an apple – or brownie or bowl of cereal – cuts right to the core of Jewish life.
“We thank G-d for granting us the possibility to derive benefit from His creations in this world,” explains Wiener. “It is our way of asking permission.”
The Know Your Brochos cards feature different colors corresponding to the six types of blessings: on bread, on wine, on bread-like snacks made out of grain, on fruits, on vegetables, and on animal-based and processed food.
The front of each card sports a picture of a food and its corresponding blessing, as well as the food’s name in Hebrew, such as gezer lavan for parsnip and mishmeshim for apricots.
Wiener sees the cards as a great resource for teachers, who can give them out as prizes.
“Is is a very effective tool when accompanying a blessings curriculum,” echoes Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the education office at Lubavitch World Headquarters.
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Two Opinions
And what do the cards say when there are two or more opinions? Brochos will never be without confusion until Moshiach.
mom of 4
i luv these – my boys are so in2 them, better than baseball cards anyday!!
Thanx
where do you buy the album?
where do you buy the album? my boys have so many cards.
info
To #1, when there are difference of opinion the back of the card has the other opinion as well as ask your Rov. To #3 you can buy albums at post mark-it on the corner of Kingston and crown
A parent
Where can we buy them? kehot? judaica world???
parent
i dont think there selling them. They get them through the school programs