Rabbi B - The Month of Tevet (Jewish Books)

[Music] wow KES to everybody happy KES Taves we are now in the month of tavet or Taves and it is a wonderful month KES Taves has 29 days and those days are full of some very wonderful wonderful things that's right d'vorah the word tavas has similar letters to the word Tove good I wonder if that's why they called it the month of tavas because it's full of good things like the month of tavas begins with Kaneka that's right the last two days of Kaneka fall out in the month of Taves so we start off with a lot of light and a lot of Joy also on the first day of tavas well that's when Queen Esther became the queen of Persia incredible it even says so in the Milla in the month of Taves incredible then later on in the month we have the fifth day of Taves hey Taves which is a special day when the laaba Reb's books his sarim were returned to the Lich Library what a happy day it was then on the eighth of Taves Taves well that's the day that King TMI of Egypt had the Tyra translated into Greek could you imagine learning Torah in Greek sounds pretty normal today you can get the Torah in all kinds of languages but in those days it was never done before and because of it in the eyes of the Egyptians and the Greeks the Torah was just another book and we know the Torah is super important it's the most important safer in the whole world then on the ninth of Taves we have the passing of Ezra hoper Ezra the scribe a scribe is someone who writes down things and Ezra hasofer wrote down some very special books in the tanak in the books of the Nim and Kim wow Ezra sofer's yard site then on the 10th of Taves well it's one of the saddest days for the Jewish people it's the day that nead netar the king of Babel surrounded the walls of yerushalaim it was called a Siege and that Siege eventually led to the destruction of the BAM mikdash harishon the first bam mikdash then on the 20th day of Taves that's the day the gamarra was first printed as a book in the city of Cino Italy wow and the 20th of tavas is also the day of passing of the ROM rabenu mosha Ben maon one of the greatest authors of Jewish torim we also have kaves the 24th of Taves that's the day of passing of the alter REI of kabad RAB Z ofl and then on the 25th of Taves the safer kov Telos duties of the heart was first printed by rabenu Baka wow so many things happened in the month of Taves and you know what a lot of them have to do with books Jewish books incredible do you have Jewish books in your home I bet you do well let's celebrate the month of tavas with a celebration of Jewish books happy keshes to first comes Tish then mares next is we fought [Music] Mal winry next is then [Music] it's the month of Nissan we count the month of Sion Moshe on the next comes the month of sometimes if you want to add Jewish books to your book collection you have to go to a Judea store or a saarim store let's go inside yes a Jewish SAR store is a great place to look for Jewish books they have all kinds of books for sale lots and lots of books for [Music] children sometimes you have to look very hard to find the right book for you it looks like d'vorah found the right book for her SPM stores have books for abas and EMAs too even books for Rabbi B they have books on the midash and Torah books on all subjects KES and mishna and lots and lots of books on gamarra books about Jewish words Bros shabis and Jewish holidays they even have a book about the ruget chover gone remember him from our story your local public library might have some Jewish books that you can take out and borrow and return when you're done reading them let's go check it out yes libraries have lots and lots of books for you to choose from sometimes you have to look very close to see if it's the right book for you I found some Jewish books at this Library yes libraries have lots and lots of books to choose from another great place to find Jewish books is in your own home yep a house full of spim is a beautiful thing even in your bedroom it's a good idea to have Jewish books especially aish aim Aid and other books that are important to you so start looking for Jewish books to add to your home's Library [Music] tavas tavet Taves the month of Taves [Music] tavet hi cougle hi Rabbi B you know that there is a fast day in the month of tavet I did know that there is a fast day in the month of Taves do you know which one it is sure the 10th day of tavet is a day when Jewish adults fast and a fast Day means that Jewish people over the age of bar orbas mitzvah don't eat or drink anything some fast days we're not even allowed to shower or wash our hands yes there are six fast days in the Jewish calendar would you like to know more about them sure I'd love to know more about the Jewish fast days okay cougle tell me about the fast days on the Jewish calendar okay here you go on the third of tishay that's s Galia on the 10th day of Tish that's yum kipur that's the day the Torah tells us to fast on the 10th of tavit that's the day the Babylonians surrounded the walls of yusim on the 13th day of Adar we remember how Queen Esther told everyone to fast to make sure she can save everyone from Haman on the 17th of tamuz that's the day the Babylonians broke the walls of yusim and ended up destroying the BAM mikdash and on the ninth of a that's when both B hamik dashes were broken it is a very sad day wow that was really fascinating cougle thank you and of course fast days are not just about not eating and drinking they're also about increasing in Good Deeds on a fast day we do extra doing we read the Torah and we also can give extra Saka except on yipper of course all these wonderful things we do show Hashem how much we love him and how much we love each other and that in turn makes Hashem want to bless us with only good things that we should have no more reasons to fast anymore well thanks again cougle you're welcome Rabbi B bye-bye everyone [Music] [Applause] Adar [Music] Nissan [Music] T of course the tent of Taves reminds us about the time when the walls of yusim were surrounded and every day in daving we ask Hashem to rebuild yush because we love it so much [Music] Hashem protects Yim every day we talk about yusim every time we pray Hashem protects yusim every day yim's here to stay [Music] yes we love yusim girls and boys let's all sing and dance together let's Rejoice yes we love yusim girls and boys let's all dance and let's rejoice [Music] every single day for msia we yearn then to Yim we'll return We DAV for M yes we yearn and to yusim will return [Music] G [Music] well I love books I sure do and I've even written a few books of my own I have the great shabas food debate I've written a book of funny poems and I've written a 12 book series all about different different subjects like bees clouds oceans and outer space well writing a book is not so hard at all and really all you need is a really good idea or a really good story so the first thing you want to do is sit down with a pencil and paper or a computer and write down your story then you want to break up your story into Pages which words Will Go On which page then you're going to want to build your book the first thing you're going to need is some paper now you want to make sure you have enough paper for the amount of pages you need in your book Ask a grown-up to help you find out how many papers you're going to need because we're going to fold those papers in half to make our book fold the paper in half give it a good push down along the edge then what real book binders do is they'll take some string and they will tie the book the book pages together put the string in the middle of the papers and tie it on the back of the fold then you can just cut off the rest of the string and leave it on the side there you go now you have your book and it's all ready to go the pages won't fall out now of course you're going to see that you're going to see that string and we don't want to see the string so we're going to make a cover page for that I'm going to use a different color paper with a bit of thickness to it this is a thick cardboard kind of a poster board paper we're going to fold that in half as [Music] well and then we'll take some hot glue now ask a grown-up to help you and just put some hot glue along the the crease of your cover paper inside your cover there you go perfect then you'll take your papers for your book and you'll just stick them on on to the glue right in the middle of the fold and you can even open up those pages and push it down and then once that glue dries you'll have a beautiful cover and you'll have your pages inside your book ready to go okay there we go now that our book is ready we can start to create the story inside the first thing we want to do is write down a title the title of our story my story is going to be called reit's Inc all right and also don't forget to write the author's name that's You by Rabbi B and now what you'll do is on each page you can write down the words to the story and you can draw a picture let's write together I think I'll use red crayon rabbitson Khan's husband reab leevy Yak was arrested by the Soviet Union for teaching Torah rebit and Khana went with her husband into Exile and saw him learn Torah every day he was not able to take notes or write down new ideas because he did not have a pen or pencil rabbits and Khana knew how to make ink using berries and flowers she could find find outside she crushed and mixed all the ingredients together to make ink for her husband to write his Torah ideas down rebic would write his Torah thoughts on anything he could find even on the sides of his other Torah books sadly reic passed away in Exile but rebit and Khana was able to leave and she brought her husband's Torah books with her bar hasem reiton KH was able to escape the Soviet Union and she eventually joined her son the luich rebe in America she was also able to get some of Ric's Torah books and writings out of Russia and they are still learned by people today rabits and Khana is a true Jewish hero she risked her life to make sure the Torah would not be [Music] forgotten wow what a great story and we wrote it and made it all by ourselves and by hash it's amazing rabbits and kan's birthday is the 28th day of Tes this month wow everything is so connected well I hope you get to make yourself a special story book and make sure you read it and share it with all your friends and family happy [Music] writing neses teses [Music] well that's our show about the month of tavas I hope you enjoyed yourself wishing you AES to all right Tora it's time for us to spend some time outside oh yeah I forgot to tell you the month of tavas Begins the winter season so we're going to have to put on our winter clothes now we're really ready for the month of Taves Rabbi B loves hearing from fans please send any fan mail drawings or questions to Rabbi bmusic gmail.com [Music] welcome to Rabbi b.org your One-Stop shop for everything Rabbi B 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