Rabbi B - Happy Purim

[Music] oh hi there welcome you know you just caught me playing with one of my funny little puppet toys this is a king puppet and i was just getting my king puppet all ready for my favorite jewish holiday purim i love purim it's the holiday we get to dress up and do lots of beautiful mitzvah of course and in the story of purim of course there was a great king do you know his name achashverosh so this was my funny little oh i think i hear devorah oh wow devorah really looks ready for purim devorah you are dressed up as a funny silly clown and you love to dance around oh devorah you look great what's that oh devorah wants to know where's rabbi bee's costume hmm don't you worry devorah i'm gonna be wearing a costume very soon you're gonna be very surprised what is my costume i'll give you a hint i'm gonna dress up as rabbi b [Music] oh that's your only hint you're right that doesn't really sound like a costume but wait till you see what i mean oh well devorah is right we're so excited for purim why don't you sing along with us and we'll spell the word there is a happy holiday purim is its name-o p-u-r-i-m-p-u [Music] okay now we're gonna take away the letter p and we'll clap our hands one time are you ready there is a happy holiday and purim is its name-o u-r-i-m-u-r-i-m-u-r-i-m and purim is its name-o okay we'll take out the letter u and now we're gonna clap two times ready there is a happy holiday and purim is its name-o r-i-m-r-i-m-r-i-m purim is its name-o now we'll take out the letter r and we'll clap three times you're doing great there is a happy holiday purim is its name-o okay we'll take out the eye four claps are you ready it's getting hard there is a happy holiday purim is its name-o m is its name-o okay we're gonna clap five times take out the letter m and only clapping are you ready there is a happy holiday and purim is its name-o and purim is its name oh p u r i m p u r i m p u r i m and pour it is its name-o great job you're really good at that song all right well devorah are you ready to hear the story of purim why don't you come over to my big yellow comfy couch and will read the story of purim together let me tell you the story of purim a man walked down the road in front of mordecai mordechai wouldn't bow he was a jewish guy that made herman real mad and he began to cry haman said boo hoo ha ha man [Music] told him the plan to make the jews toast the king gave him the ring and he began to boast the jew said boo hoo come on russia boo hoo ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [Music] but queen esther was on to haman's evil scheme she told the king about it and he began to steam how man was sent away and he began [Laughter] oh [Music] [Laughter] [Music] now every year this story we are to retell listen close to every word and you will surely fell but when you hear haman you should begin to yell you should say boom boom boom boom come on [Music] [Applause] i hope you enjoyed the story all right well devorah wants to hear the story of purim and here i have the story of purim that's right devorah this does not look like a book that's because it's not a book the story of purim is written on a scroll just like a safer torah is written on a scroll the megillat estere is also written on a scroll now this one is just for show this is not a real megillah but we're just going to read some of the story today so devorah gets ready for purim i can take off this cover that's right and i can take off this special belt and i can open up the megillah and we can read the story together once upon a time there was a king named achashverosh he was the king of a lot of people one day akhash virosh wanted to make a big party he invited all the people to his party and he wanted his queen vashti to come to the party too but vashti was very mean and she did not come to the king's party king akashvirosh was very upset and he said i don't want to be married to queen vashti anymore so he sent her away and now king ahashvirosh needed to find a new queen he searched and searched and finally found one of the most beautiful girls in the whole world named esther esther was a jewish girl but she did not want to tell that to king akhashverosh so that's why she changed her name to esther which means the hidden one esther lived with mordechai mordecai was a great jewish rabbi he taught a lot of torah did a lot of mitzvot and took care of all the jewish people in the city of shushan king akhashvirosh and esther got married and now esther became queen esther well in the king's castle there also lived a very wicked man his name was haman that's right any time you hear the name haman in the megillah you're supposed to make a lot of noise let's continue haman was not a very nice man and he did not like mordechai haman decided he wanted to kick mordechai and all the jewish people out of shushan he went to the king and told the king ah i want to get rid of all the jewish people and king akhashvirosh said go ahead and do it get rid of all the jewish people you're right devorah that's terrible that is not very kind at all well mordechai heard about this and he was very very upset mordechai told all the jewish people to start to learn more torah and do more mitzvahs and all the people listened to him especially the jewish children hooray for you the jewish children were the first ones to listen to mordechai they started to do more mitzvot more kind deeds and learn a lot more torah way to go well mordechai also realized that esther was in the right place to save the jewish people he told esther that she has to go to king akhash virus and get him to help queen esther went to king akhashvirosh and invited him and haman to a feast a delicious dinner at the dinner queen esther told king akhashvirosh there is a wicked person in your kingdom who wants to hurt my people the jewish people king akhashvirosh said who who is this man who wants to hurt the jewish people queen esther said it is haman that's right come on make a lot of noise king akhashvirosh was very angry at haman and he sent amman away mordechai and esther spoke with king akash virosh esther that they have nothing to fear that the jewish people will be protected as long as he is the king and mordechai and esther made the holiday of purim to celebrate the story of the jewish people getting saved from the wicked haman [Applause] if you love that story and you want to hear more parts of the story then you should try to hear the magilla on purim we listen to the megillah on purim night and also again by daytime two times what a mitzvah wow well i hope you enjoyed that short story of purif devorah sure did oh clown devorah sure did hey that reminds me when you go to the megillah reading you should try to bring a noisemaker with you that way anytime you hear haman you can make a lot of noise too but don't make a lot of noise during the rest of the magilla reading hey let me show you some of my griggers i'll meet you in the art room and i'll show you my graggars my noise makers that i have see you there yes the letter mem is for the word mitzvah and there are four mitzvahs of purim and they all begin with the hebrew letter mem it's a mitzvah to hear the megillah and begins with the letter mem it's also a mitzvah to give me those are purim baskets and mishloch begins with the letter mem on purim we also give matanotle of yonim gifts and charity to the poor and matanot begins with the letter mem and lastly we eat a yummy mister a purim meal and mister begins with you guessed it the letter mem yes megillah mishloch are the four mitzvahs of purim and all those milim words begin with the letter men [Music] listening to the megillah is so much fun it's the story of purim but while we're listening to the magilla there's an extra fun thing to do that whenever you hear the name haman exactly you're supposed to make a lot of noise especially if you have a graggar is the hebrew word for that spiny noisy noise maker well i have a rashaan over here to show you oh look at this one this is one of my favorite ra ashanim my favorite gregor and this one has a little haman on the top so when it spins around amman gets very dizzy that's really fun but sometimes i like to find a bigger rashan let me see if i have a bigger one here oh here it is here is my bigger rashan this one is a little bit bigger than the other one but it's a lot noisier that was super loud whoa all right i think i have an even bigger one than that here it is this one is really big and on it it says whenever the month of adar begins well you gotta be extra happy so this is my extra happy rashon and it sounds like this whoa that is extra noisy well those are some pretty big rashanim pretty big graggers what's that you want me to show you an even bigger one hmm let me see if i can find it aha here it is oh that is a very big roshan and it says happy purim purim let's hear how this one sounds oh that is very very noisy oh my goodness i'll have to put that away for the megillah reading well you know you could use one of these rashanim when you want to boo haman and shake the gragger or you could make your own noise maker i'll show you how to do it all you need is a couple of things first you're gonna need a pair of scissors remember what rabbi b always says always make sure you use a grown-up's help or a big brother or sister to help you when it comes to cutting because scissors can be sharp and they could cut you so please be very careful when you're using scissors we're also going to need some colored tape i have blue and yellow of course and we're going to need some plastic eggs don't use real eggs these are plastic eggs i got different colors and of course we're going to need something to hold our noise maker so i have a couple of spoons plastic white spoons and last we're going to need something to go inside the eggs to make some noise i have here some lentils they're hard and little and they'll make a lot of noise inside of my graggar the first thing we need to do is choose one of our eggs it doesn't really matter what color you use because we're going to be covering it in some tape we're going to open up the plastic egg and we're going to put a little bit of lentils or you could use rice or little pasta or something hard and small but not too small because these eggs have holes in them sometimes you don't want it to fall out and you could test it close the egg sounds pretty good to me okay now that we have our egg with some shaking stuff inside now we're ready to start the first thing we want to do is get our spoons taped on to the sides of the egg once that's kind of ready get some tape any color we'll do i'm going to start off with some yellow tape and just give it a little snip all right and what we'll do is we'll begin by putting it on one of the piece one of the spoons putting the spoon onto the egg and then taping the spoon on one side of the egg and we'll do the same thing on the other side take a piece of tape we will put it on the spoon and then we will put it on the other side of the egg and try to match up the tape if you can if you don't it's all right as well and there we go so now we have our spoons hanging on to our egg but right now it looks like an egg with some spoons we're going to want to change that so now is the time we're going to cover the whole thing in some different color tape so i'm going to go blue yellow blue yellow and we'll see how it turns out do and there we have it our very own egg and spoon shaker gragger let's try our griggers together [Music] hey great job you guys are ready to hear the megillah well have a hug pour in samaya you know devorah dressing up as a clown reminds me of one of my favorite toys my funny little dancing clown but right now he's lying down wake up mr clown [Music] good morning mr clown you know in hebrew a clown is a late sun and my late sun loves to dance around late sun [Music] light sun light [Music] the funny little clown he loves to dance around the funny little clown as silly as can be oh will oh will or will he dance with me oh will oh will oh will he dance with me see the dance mr clown [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey great job mr clown you can wave your hands thank you very much all right mr clown you could go to sleep now good night [Music] okay devorah are you ready to see my purim costume i told you i'm dressing up as rabbi bee [Music] get it rabbi bee [Music] have a wonderful happy purim don't forget to do all those special mitzvot listen to the megillah give out mishloch give some matano love yonim and of course eat a delicious mister [Music] all right dvorah let's get our honeybee mishloch ready to go see you later happy purim [Music] rabbi b loves hearing from fans please send any fan mail drawings or questions to rabbi b music gmail.com [Music]