מצורעפרשת שבת הגדול

7.42pm –קבלת שבת 8.54pm – שבת מוצאי

(9.13pm -ר״ת)

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: School finishes 1.40pm on Tuesday 19th April- End of term

EDUCATIONAL QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery (Mark van Doren)

פ' מצורע –דבר תורה

The חובות הלבבות writes that when one speaks לשון הרע

about someone else, the speaker loses all his מצוות ומעשים

!to the other, which is a frightening thought טובים

The מפרשים attempt to find a רמז to that idea in this

week’s פרשה as the סדרה begins with the words זאת תהיה

תורות that the - תורת המצורע ביום טהרתו of the מצורע are

only his - ביום טהרתו – until he does תשובה he has lost all!

The 'אלשי''ך הק explains a פסוק in תהלים ס''ט where דהע''ה

bemoans:.ישיחו בי ישבי שער ונגינות שותי שכר . He complains

that although others are talking about him, and thus he

could gain from this, he tells us that these people are the

lowest in society, thus there is no relevant benefit from

their לשוה''ר !

The פרדס יוסף adds that since a person might ח''ו come

to שמים with another’s עבירות ר''ל he may become

confused as to his own identity – and for that reason one

should say the appropriate פסוק before the end of

which alludes to his name – so that he will know whoשמו''ע

he is!

The מדרש on this week’s פרשה is famous when the רוכל

announced מאן בעי סמא דחיים and even ר' ינאי ran out to

see what this potion was … Perhaps we can explain, that

he wasn’t offering a potion that added life – only the מלך

can grant that – rather he was announcing thatמלכי המלכים

he had an elixir that preserved one’s life – that allowed

one to retain one’s attainment of תורה ומצוות - the perfect

– then - נצור לשונך מרע – and revealed the secret - סם חיים

he is a - חפץ חיים אוהב ימים לראות טוב – we would do well

to learn this lesson today as well.

FROM THE DESK OF THE HEADTEACHER

On Monday morning, the building reverberated to the

sound of music in our Yiddish Song Concert. For well over an hour, every class in the school sang a song in Yiddish that they had learned with their Rebbes. The boys not only learned the song but thanks to the Rebbes, also understood what the words meant and indeed shared this with everyone else before starting their class songs.

In a school like ours, where Yiddish is so important and is

what we are teaching the boys as a foreign language, it was wonderful to hear this special language come to life. My thanks to the Rebbes for preparing their boys, to Rebbe Katz on the keyboard for all the classes and particularly to the Menahel for organising this lovely whole-school occasion; it was very special.

I know some parents asked me at Parents Evening if they were invited to attend. Not this time but hopefully next year, we will be able to make this happen.

Good Shabbos

Mr Sager

פרשת חיי שרה Rebbe Herman’s class built a well out of clicks, learning this week’s סדרה.

To Mrs Newman upon her !!חתונה

Newsletter תלמוד תורה פרדס 15th April 2016 ––ח' ניסן

PARDES HOUSE PRIMARY SCHOOL

SECURITY ROTA: Mon 18th – Rotenberg Ari Tues 19th- Sanger Eli

Gardening Club

We request any unwanted plant pots, compost or buckets. Boys who bring any of these items into school

will be ‘repaid’ in Prutahs!

We are collecting Sainsbury’s vouchers for PE until 8th July.

Rota Request Looking for a rota in Golders Green to start September for

boy’s finishing school at 5:15. Please call 07800 918622 or 07805930389

Uniform Gemach have lots of school jumpers available. Please call Mrs Stimler on 07967 192 362

Thank you to M@P for arranging such a fun and exciting activity! The boys really enjoyed baking their own matzos!