Rabbi B - The Four Seasons

[music] [laughter] [music] Oh, good. Shua to you know this past Shabas we had a lot of snow fall down and D'vorah and Kougal and myself were just enjoying watching the winter weather outside. What's that D'Vorah? Well, it's snowing because it's winter outside. Well, it's winter outside because, well, that's the season that we're in now. [laughter] You sure have a lot of questions, D'vorah. That's excellent. D'Vorah wants to know, why are there seasons? >> I know the answer, Rabbi B. >> Okay, Cougle, tell us why do we have different seasons? Well, Rabbi B, you see, the Earth tilts towards or away from the sun. When the northern half of the Earth tilts towards the Sun, that makes summertime in the northern hemisphere and wintertime in the southern hemisphere. And when the Earth tilts away from the Sun, that makes winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere. >> [laughter] >> D'Vorah wants to know more. Okay, I think we're going to have to ask the Torah for this question. Oh, Torah, Torah, why are there different seasons? [music] >> There are different seasons because Hashem makes it so. We say every day when we d in [music] that hashem sets the time of year and sets the seasons, too. [music] You see, it's all from Hashem. [music] >> I think that's the most important answer of all. Huh? D'vorah likes that answer. Of course, it's Hashem who sets the seasons. Hashem sets the times. Hashem sets all the days of our lives. Wow, Bar Hashem. And the snowy season is so beautiful. >> I think spring is the best season. >> Okay, Koko likes the spring. What? Oh, and D'vorah likes the fall. >> Nope. It's spring. Spring. >> Guys, guys, guys, you don't have to fight. You don't have to argue. You can both be right. You see, in this case, there's no right answer. It's according to what you like best. Kougle, you can like the spring and D'vorah, you can like the fall. It doesn't have to be a right answer, but of course, everyone knows summer is the best. Spring spring. Come along. Come along. Come along. Right now, we'll sing [music] together. I'll show you how. Come along. Come along. Come along with me. Come along with Rabbi B. Come along. [music] Come along. Come along right now. We'll sing together. I'll show you how. [music] Come along. Come along. [singing] Come along with me. Come along with Rabbi B. We'll say [music] Moda Ani with the morning sun. Get into the mood and join the fun. Let's thank Hashem for [music] everything. Dance around with that Sima feeling. [singing] Come [music] along. Come along. Come along. right now. We'll sing [singing] together. I'll show you how. [music] Come along. Come along. Come along with me. Come along with Rabbi B. [music] Come along [singing] with Rabbi B. Come along [music and singing] with Rabbi B. Each season not only brings [music] different holidays, but also different weather and things that you can do. The spring season begins with the holiday of Pesak. [music] The warmer weather brings new growth and new opportunities to spend the day outside enjoying the newly [music] growing flowers. Spring in Hebrew is Aviv. Aviv is also a time when snow [music] turns to rain. So make sure to bring your umbrella. Even though learning Torah never ends, spring ends with the holiday of Shauv. [music] The summer months bring warm sunshine and heat. [music] Summer in Hebrew is kayitz. Kayit's weather allows you to [music] spend most of your daytime outside. The trees and flowers are in full bloom. Yes, bees are [music] too. Thanks, D'vorah. Picking strawberries is one of my favorite activities to do in the summer. The summer has some special days too. [music] Tishabove is in the summer and that's when we remember the baam mikdash. Once rashana and yum kipper approach, well, we know it's fall, also known as autumn. [music] Autumn in Hebrew is stav. In the stav, the leaves change colors and the weather gets much cooler. Everyone loves the beautiful autumn colors [music] and raking leaves is my favorite stav activity. Jumping in them is too. Sukus is also celebrated [music] during the fall. The weather is just nice enough to enjoy some time outside [music] in the suka. As the weather gets colder, [music] the winter season enters. Make sure to dress warm as the snow begins to fall down. Winter [music] in Hebrew is Kore. There are many new and exciting things to do in the Kore. Sledding and snowman building [music] are just some of the fun activities in the winter. There really is nothing more beautiful and warmer than [music] lighting the Kaneka minora in front of a snowy background. As the weather begins to warm [music] up a little, the trees begin to warm up too and get ready to start growing again. Maybe that's why Tubishvat [music] is found near the end of Horef. Once winter gets close to spring, we end the season with the holiday of Purim. Purim [music] is the last holiday before we have to start cleaning for Pesak again [music] and get back into the spring of things. Spring, [music] summer, fall, winter, the four seasons of the year. >> [music] >> One of the best things about having different seasons is every time you go for a walk, there's something new to see. Well, today's story is called Walking Through the Seasons with me, Rabbi B. Let's read it together. Come along right now. Let's go for a walk. and I'll show you how. Come along with me. Come along with Rabbi [music] Ve. In the fall, Rabbi B and D'vorah enjoy watching the leaves on the trees turned from [music] green to yellow, red to orange. The air was filled with the smell from the leaves on the ground. Rabbi B loves hearing the rustling leaves under his feet as he walks to [music] shul. D'vorah enjoys counting acorns and pine cones as she flies. On Russia Shana, Rabbi B walks around with an instrument called a chauffear. People can hear the chauffear from all around and come to wish Rabbi B sha tova. Some walks are difficult like when Rabbi B walks to shul on yum kipper. Yum kipper is a fast day. So Rabbi B does not eat or drink anything the whole day. He also wears slippers on his feet instead of his regular dress shoes. Rabbi B carries his Lulov and Esrog to shul on sukus. Sukus is a fall season holiday. D'vorah loves sitting outside in the suka so she can feel the cool fall air on her wings. Some days in the fall are very windy. Rabbi B has to hold on to his hat so it will not blow away. [music] D'Vorah makes sure to hold on to Rabbi B so she would not blow away. The leaves have nothing to hold on to. They do blow away. [music] In the winter, Rabbi B and D'vorah bundle up in warm clothes as they walk through the snow. [music] Rabbi B can hear the snow crunching under his boots. D'vorah watches as the snowflakes dance [music] through the cold air. On some winter walks, Rabbi B and D'vorah can see people's Kaneka minoras in their windows. Kaneka is a winter season holiday. Some winter days have blizzards of snow. Rabbi B has to walk very carefully because he cannot see [music] very well and the streets are very icy. Sometimes D'Vorah stays home on a cold day like this. [music] Cold winter weather can be dangerous for a little bee. [music] One of Rabbi Bee's favorite days for a walk is Purim. Rabbi Be dresses up in a funny costume and delivers Shalakmanas to the people in his neighborhood. [music] D'vorah can see all the people wearing their Purim costumes. In the spring, Rabbi Bee enjoys the warm breeze [music] as he walks beside newly growing plants. D'vorah flies through the sweet smelling air as she passes by blooming cherry blossoms. Rabbi B and D'vorah walk around the neighborhood on Pesak. Pesak is called Aviv, the spring holiday. Rabbi B delivers matzah to people to help them be ready for Pesak. Sometimes [music] on a spring day, it rains. Rabbi V and D'Vorah make sure they wear their raincoats, boots, and hats, or else they would get very wet. [music] Rabbi Ve loves to splash in the puddles on the sidewalk. D'vorah does not like to do that. Some summer days are very hot and sunny. Rabbi V and D'Vorah spend their summer outside doing exercise. They make sure to drink plenty of water while they walk. They dress in light clothing and wear their sun hats to stay as cool as possible. Rabbi B and D'Vorah enjoy going to someone's birthday party. Rabbi V brings his guitar to the party to sing happy birthday. [music] Come along right now. We walked through the seasons. I showed you how. Come along with me. Thanks for walking with Rabbi B. Wow. So much to see on beautiful fall, winter, spring, and summer days. You know [music] there are four seasons in the year. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Let's sing together. Repeat after me. Four [music] seasons in the year. >> Four seasons [singing] in the year. Four seasons in the year. Four seasons [music] in the year. Arbaash. Arbaash. [singing] [music] Arbaash. Arba. Aiv is spring. Aiv [singing] is spring. [music] Kay is summer. Kay is summer. [singing] Stav is fall. Stav is fall. Cor is winter. Cor [singing and music] is winter. Aiv is spring. Aiv is spring. [music] Cay is summer. Cay is [singing] summer. Stav is fall. [music] is fall is winter. >> Is winter. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] Aiv [music] the Four Seasons. >> Okay, D'vorah, let's play a game. I will mix up Rabbi Bee's clothes and seasons, and you have to tell me [music] which season Rabbi B is in. Okay, here we go. Okay, D'vorah, what season is this? Very good. It is the Aiv spring. Great job. Okay, here we go again. [music] Okay, D'vorah, what season is this? You are correct. It is the Horf. That means winter. Okay, here we go again. Okay, D'vorah, what season is this? Right, it's the summer kay. Okay, here we go one more time. What season is this? You are right. It is the fall. stuff. Great job, D'vorah. You really know your seasons. [music] When you come home, you should take your shoes off. Especially if the weather outside is rainy, snowy, or muddy. You do not want to track that mess into your home. Take your shoes off at the door and place them side by side neatly away from the door. That way, other people won't trip on your shoes and the entrance of your home will be neat and tidy. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye from Mushka and Benny. I can never decide which season is my favorite season. So, for today's art project, let's create a picture of all four seasons. Now, I've chosen a picture of a tree. As you can tell, the tree has no leaves, and you can't really tell which season it is. And therefore, what we're going to do is we're going to decorate our picture into four different seasons. Now, it's going to help us to split our picture into four. So, great. Now our picture is split into four different seasons. Aviv spring, kay summer, stav fall, and winter. All right. Now, what we're going to need to do is color in our picture. We're going to color it in using regular colors, like a regular picture of a tree in a park on a nice blue sky, sunny day. You can use crayons or pencil crayons or markers, whatever you like to decorate your picture. Okay, there we go. Now, our picture is colored in. Now, right now, the picture kind of looks like spring or summer, but there are no leaves on the tree. So, we're going to have to add that in ourselves. We're going to use colorful tissue paper to decorate each section of our picture as a different season. So, let's get some colorful tissue paper on the table. Okay. And let's cut those tissue papers into squares. Okay. So, now we have smaller squares of tissue paper which are going to be much easier to work with. Now, what we want to do is each section we want to think what color tissue paper we're going to want to use. So, let's start with stop with the fall. Now, fall has this section of the tree. So, we're just going to be adding some leaves to the tree. Now, what we're going to do is use a little bit of glue. And the colors we want to use are going to be fall colors. So, let's use some orange. We'll crumble up the paper into a ball. And we'll put a little dab of glue on the tree and stick our ball onto the tree. And we'll do that a few more times. And of course you can add yellow as well. Okay. Now it looks like a beautiful fall day in that section. Now we want to move over to which is winter. So for winter we're going to use the white tissue paper. And this time what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to roll it up really long like a long long strip like that. That's going to look like the snow. And then I'm going to put some glue along the branch that I want to put the snow on. And then we can add the snow in the same kind of snake shape as the branch. So it'll kind of look like there's some snow on the branch. And I'll use I'll do this long branch here. Okay, so now we have lots of snow covering our tree in the corf. Now for our aviv picture, let's do some nice cherry blossoms on the bottom of the tree part that's over here. Again, using a dab of glue and a rolled up pink flower, it'll look like spring flowers. And of course, cherry blossoms like to fall down to the floor, too. So, we can add a couple on the ground on the bottom of the tree. Okay. And then, of course, for kayets, summer, well, that's when the trees are beautiful and green. So, we'll add some green leaves to that section. All right. So there we go. We have our four season scenery. We have a beautiful spring tree with cherry blossoms, a snowy tree for HR, a orange and yellow leaf tree for Stav, and green leaves for the kay. And there you go. We have a four season artwork. Really good. Well, try it yourself. You could even draw your own tree and decorate it and split it into four sections or just make one tree of the season [snorts] that you love best. Okay, I think we can all agree that all the seasons are so special and we can thank Hashem for setting those beautiful times of year for us to see how amazing Hashem truly is. Gut shabu. We'll see you next time. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Welcome to [music] rabb.org. or your one-stop shop for everything Rabbi B. On my site, you can [music] find out more about me. Watch the latest video or check out past episodes. Check out all of Rabbi Bee's books, albums, upcoming [music] concerts, and events. I even have activities and coloring pages, too. Easily contact me with a question, comment, or just to say [music] hi. And you can do all that with the comfort and safety of one website. rabb.org. Let's make being Jewish fun and exciting. [music] Rabbi B loves hearing from fans. 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