L'Covid Shabbos Part 3: Kids & Friday Night: Making it Work

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The opening of this shiur, in Oorah’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Some practical tips on how to make the Shabbos Seudah more meaningful and more special. We spoke first about expectations. Expecting every child to be able to sit quietly for an hour is unreasonable and most children are not ready for that. Spoke about the Shabbos Seudah the Kiddush. It's very, very important in general to try to get as many people in the family in the family to have their own jobs, their own traditions. This is what they do. This one does this, this one does that. They have a ownership of that job. Of course, we have to figure out what job works the best for every child. So, sometimes you may know and sometimes you may not. Here's a great tip. Ask a child, "Can you please sweep the floor?" If it gets done graciously, it's probably a good job for that child. If she's soon going to do it and soon going to do it and forgets to do it, going to do it and forgets to do it, probably try another. So, Shabbos the Kiddush, my father traditionally always announced, "We are making Kiddush. It's a mitzvah of the Torah to make Kiddush." And that's a great thing. I added on to that a little bit. "Why do we make Kiddush?" Does anybody know? Of course, my 5-year-old says, "Uh to remember that Hashem made the world." Excellent. What else? "To remember that Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim." And that became our job.

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1. 0:13Some practical tips on how to make the Shabbos Seudah more meaningful and more special. We…
2. 1:13going to do it and forgets to do it, probably try another. So, Shabbos the Kiddush,…
3. 2:15do during the meal and many people have a big problem with zmiros. Singing zmiros, the…
4. 3:18And they sit and again, many times these candies and these contests don't have to be…
5. 4:18and the child says, "I want a single. I want a double. I want a triple."…
6. 5:19Some people say like this one and some people say like that one. You can have…
7. 6:20Maybe it'll be kiddush, maybe it'll be a story, and maybe the main course and dessert.…
8. 7:21that we had to go it wasn't raining. It's fantastic. Parents, uh I was supposed to…
9. 8:22Shabbos sukkah. So, if I made the franks and blanks and I made the dessert, there's…
10. 9:22Bentshing, it's time for bentshing. Great idea for the family to sing along. Again, this doesn't…

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