Live!

Reminders:

• Thank you for signing in and out each day on the Famly app

• Sign up for hot lunch for January and the second semester of school is now available at www.gansinai.org/hotlunch

• Join Rabbi David for a Mid-Year Check-In tonight, December 16 at 6:30pm in the Gan-at-Home Zoom room. Just go to www.gansinai.org and click on the blue Zoom button at the top of the page and use the passcode: ganathome.

• Our next playground Shabbat is this Saturday, December 18 from 10am-12pm.

• Enrollment for the 2022-2023 school year is now open. Early bird tuition rates end in January. Sign up today at www.gansinai.org/2022.

Get all the latest info and links at www.gansinai.org/greatthings.

Find quick links and easy-to-access information at www.gansinai.org/links.

From Rabbi David

This is the second time in the Torah that the Torah portion is titled something about the main character "living" when the content of the portion speaks of that person's death - in this case, Jacob. (The first example is Chayei Sarah - the Life of Sarah, in which she dies.)

Here's my take. Between work, school, bills, expectations, obligations and everything else life throws at us, it's actually pretty easy to forget how to really and fully LIVE: To let yourself go, play, laugh, smile, be silly, and just generally have fun and LIVE.

Seems to me that the Torah might be telling us all to take these next two weeks and carve out some time to do these things and to LIVE. If you need advice on how to do that, just ask your kids. They do it with style every single day and we should learn from them how to LIVE every day to the fullest. Have a wonderful winter break!