Shabbos Hagadol Math

PARSHA MATH

SHABBOS HAGADOL Match the Reason This Shabbos is HaGadol The Miracle

__Taking a Sheep

Handling Muktzah

__The Head Rabbi

Shabbos Became Great After

__The Omer the Day

The Speech

__Only Creation

The Week Has a Small Shabbos

__Civil War

Tenth of Nissan

In year 2448 this day was Shabbos The Jews took the sheep to hold for 4 days The First-Born Egyptians believed Moshe that a plague was coming In year 2487 Miriam died

Fourteenth of Nissan

Passover sacrifice

Fifteenth of Nissan

Sedar night (eat sacrifice) In year 2448, the Jews left Egypt

Sixteenth of Nissan

Day after “special” day, gather Omer from new crop

PARSHA MATH NOTES FOR TEACHER OR PARENT Age group – 10 years and up Objective of this lesson: Appreciate math in the Torah Introduction to concepts of Shabbos haGadol ANSWER SHEET

Match the Reason This Shabbos is HaGadol THE MIRACLE

CIVIL WAR

First-Born Egyptians believe Moshe that plague of death to the first-borns; the first-borns begin a civil war to let the Jews go HANDLING MUKTZAH

TAKING

A

SHEEP

First Shabbos for the Jews as a people; taking a live animal is an item of Muktzah; by this action overriding Shabbos, the Jews appreciated all the laws of Shabbos SHABBOS BECAME GREAT

ONLY CREATION

Prior to this time, Shabbos had only one part of its function (Shabbos of Creation); starting with this Shabbos, now had its second part (Shabbos of Exodus) Two aspects of relationship between G-d and the Jewish people as reflected in the two parts of the Shabbos Kiddush THE SPEECH

THE HEAD RABBI

The Main (head) Rabbi is requested to provide a longer-than-usual speech including instructions for the many details of the forthcoming holiday of Pesach THE WEEK HAS A SMALL SHABBOS THE OMER THE DAY AFTER The Torah specifies that the “day after Shabbos”, the Omer is taken. Chaza”l explain the intention is that the first day of Pesach (like any Moed) is also called Shabbos (to counter the mistaken belief of other groups that did not believe in the Oral traditions). Thus, since during the week a “small” Shabbos would be observed (and to emphasize our belief in the Oral tradition), Chaza”l declared the Shabbos prior to Pesach the “big” Shabbos.

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