Building Jewish Life: Thanking God

Grades: 3-4       BJL Synagogue looks at the synagogue as a dynamic place. Its central focus is the model of the synagogue as including three basic functions—a beit tefillah (a house of prayer), a beit midrash (a house of study), and a beit k'nesset (a house of gathering). 

With this lesson, we begin to learn the concept of thanking God. We first learn this through Abraham and Sarah both welcoming people into their home, and teaching strangers about thanking God with blessings. As we continue through the packet we learn about praising God in the Aleinu, reading a story about blessing both good and bad days, creating our own blessings, and learning different blessings for things we never would have thought had a blessing. This packet helps the students to learn that we need to thank God for all that God has given us, both the bad and the good.

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