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BJE KIDS
WHO ARE WE
THE LEGEND OF THE HONEY
If you had ever met Simon ben Yehudah, chances are you would have found him a perfectly ordinary man. He was neither very thin nor very fat, very handsome nor very ugly, very rich nor very poor, very learned nor very ignorant. There seemed to be nothing at all unusual about him.
But the angels in heaven knew that Simon was outstanding in one way: whenever he had the opportunity, he acted with kindness. A grocer by trade, Simon would willingly give a poor customer the finest fruits and vegetables. He did so without hoping to be rewarded by G-d or by other people.
One day, an angel came to Simon’s shop, dressed in a beggar’s rags. Without waiting for his new customer to speak, Simon loaded him down with the reddest apples, the plumpest raisins, and the most fragrant oranges to be found in his shop.
After the angel returned to heaven, he called a meeting of all the angels to discuss how they could best reward Simon for his acts of kindness. Simon already had a loving wife, a healthy baby, and enough money. What could they do for him to bring him the most joy?
For a full seven days and seven nights, the angels pondered the question. Then they had an idea: they would see to it that his baby son would grow up to be a great scholar.
The angels then searched the world for the purest honey made by the best bees that had gathered nectar from the world’s most beautiful flowers. Having gathered the honey, the angels waited.
Time passed, and Simon’s son was no longer a baby. The day came when Simon took him to school for the first time. As the boy opened his first schoolbook, a tempting smell rose from its pages and filled the classroom. The boy touched the letters on the book’s first page and brought his fingers to his lips. The taste of the honey that was spread over the page was sweeter than anything he had every know.
The boy’s delight in the honey that was spread over the lesson was matched by his delight in the lesson itself. Finding all his studies as sweet as the first day of study had been, the boy grew up to be a great scholar.
In the hope that a sweet beginning in Talmud Torah would encourage their children to be scholars too, parents began the Minhag (custom) of spreading honey on the pages of their children’s first lesson
At Academy BJE we also hope we are providing a taste of honey with our classes
100 YEARS OF ACADEMY BJE
BORN: FEBRUARY 1909
ACTIVITIES IN 2009:
• 1600 children in 102 schools attend SRE (Scripture) classes.
• Nearly 400 children learn Hebrew in 10 schools.
• 170 children learn Judaism at JETS (before and after school classes.)
• Jewish Students’ Network – lunchtime fun and discussions in high schools
• High Schools Shabbaton – called “Weekend Escape” with Israeli madrichim
• Purim and Chanukah gifts to more than 1500 students
• Demonstration Sedarim for all Jewish children in state schools
• Jewish holiday in Sydney - a weekend program and Shabbaton for Jewish children who live away from the main Jewish community.
SOME SCHOOLS WHERE BJE TEACHERS TEACH
Primary Schools: Annandale North, Artarmon, Ashbury, Asquith Balmain, Beaumont Road, Killara, Bellevue Hill, Belrose, St Ives, St Ives Park, St Ives North, South Coogee, Turramurra, Vaucluse, Waverley, West Pymble, Woollahra.
Secondary Schools: Blakehurst, Killara, North Sydney Boys’, North Sydney Girls’, Randwick Boys’, Riverside Girls’, Rose Bay Secondary College, St Ives, Sydney Boys’, Sydney Girls’, Vaucluse
AND IF YOU LIVE FAR FROM SYDNEY, BJE mails lessons to: ACT Jewish Community, Armidale, Bendigo VIC, Blue Haven, Burnie TAS, Burradoo, Camden, Coonabarrabran, Port Macquarie, Surfers Paradise QLD, Wallsend, Woodbine, Wollongong.
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