Tuesday, November 25, 2014

tefila cards: Elokai Neshama

This isn't homeschool at all.  The principal in the high school I teach at asked me to make up some cards for students to peruse if they finish davening and are bored.  Hopefully we'll get some artistic students to illustrate them.  I just made my first card and I'm proud of it.  So I'll share them here for your printing pleasure, if anyone wants to use them.  This one is for Elokai Neshama



💬Why “MY” God? (vs. “our”)

💬 What makes a neshama “pure” or “tahor”?
אלה-י נשמה שנתת בי טהורה היא
My God: The Neshama you put in me is tahor
💬 What is the difference between “create” and “form”?
אתה בראתה,
אתה יצרתה
You created it
You formed it
💬 Hashem doesn’t breathe..
What’s the metaphor?
אתה נפחתה בי
You breathed it into me
💬 In what sense does Hashem guard our soul?
ואתה משמרה בקרבי
And You guard it inside of me
💀Pause to ponder your mortality
ואתה עתיד לטלה ממני
And in the future You will take it away from me
🙋 Ponder Techiyat HaMeitim (Resurrection of the Dead)
ולהחזירה בי לעתיד לבוא
And return it to me in the future

😍 Are you really?  
כל זמן שהנשמה בקרבי מודה אני
The whole time that the Neshama is inside me I am thankful..




💬 What is a “master of all works”?
לפניך ה' אלה-י ואלה- אבותי
רבון כל המעשים
..before You Hashem my God and God of my fathers

Master of all works
💬 What does it mean to be Lord of all souls?
אדון כל הנשמות.
Lord of all souls
Didn’t realize the ending was gruesome, did you?
Ponder Techiyat HaMeitim (Resurrection of the Dead) again
ברוך אתה ה' המחזיר נשמות לפגרים מתים
Blessed are You Hashem

Who returns souls to dead corpses

How does this set the tone for your day?

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