What is Your Family Legacy? A Family Program for 5th and 6th Grade Families
This lesson helps families who are looking for ways to bring loved ones who are no longer with us into their simcha.
About this Lesson
As families prepare for a Bar/Bat/B. Mitzvah, they seek ways to honor loved ones who have passed. This lesson guides parents and children in exploring family history through legacy items, incorporating memories into the service space.
Our community unites Conservative and Reform Jews, fostering connection through shared traditions. Families deepen their bonds by creating a Legacy Museum and conclude the program with Memory Jars placed on the bima to honor those who are gone.
This resource was created as part of the Shomer Collective Educator Fellowship, which was generously funded by the Covenant Foundation. For more Jewish wisdom and resources on death and dying, please visit: www.shomercollective.org.
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Resources on death and dying created as part of the Shomer Collective Educator Fellowship.
This program helps families experiencing significant lifecycle events like B. Mitzvah explore ways to bring those who lived before them into the simcha through stories and artifacts in meaningful ways.
Community Synagogue of Rye (CSR), NY. Learners in 5th-7th grade meet weekly with a moreh derech (guide/teacher) in each other’s homes to explore Jewish answers to everyday questions. The model includes Family Limmud monthly.
Mensch-ify is an alternative learning program that is held twice a month for families with children in Pre-K to 6th grade. It is a developmentally appropriate program, built upon the parent-child co-learning experience, that combines stories, songs, art, movement, and play to provide families with the tools they need to live a Jewish life that works for them.
Peninsula Temple Beth El (PTBE), San Mateo, CA. Families in small groups with similar age kids begin learning together, move into separate groups for parallel study and then come back together for a family activity followed by participation in Shabbat worship.
Temple Adat Elohim, Thousand Oaks, CA. Families come together twice a month, once to experience Shabbat as a B’Yachad community and another time to help heal the world by participating in Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) projects