As many of you know, our goal in Kitah Dalet is to help our students understand their responsibility to make the world a better place by building relationships with GOD, other people, and the community at large. We constantly push our students to think about their actions, and challenge them to do the right thing, even when it is difficult. We had an interesting discussion about being leaders, and the importance of making choices that have a positive effect on the world. We shared our thoughts about having a negative impact on others, and how when we follow others, we don't always make the best choices. On the other hand, we talked about our own urges to do bad over good, and took a look at some of our personal strengths and weaknesses. Students shared their most positive and negative personality traits, and we shared our answers with our classmates.
We are nice, kind, holy, positive, funny, helpful, smart, and thoughtful, and we are mean, annoying, negative, questioning, judgmental, selfish, rude, and loud, just to name a few. We talked about how many of us struggle with the same inclinations to do bad and good, and all of us have to work hard to resist the urge to do bad over good. Most importantly, we must remember GOD wants us to be our best selves, and to constantly work towards being the best we can be.
To conclude our discussion, we watched a short video clip on Cain and Abel, and saw how we are indeed our brother's keepers. Of course, we now understand that "brother" refers to community and others, and we must step up and care for others as well as ourselves.
Please plan on joining us Sunday morning for our Hanukkah Family Program, we are excited to share the morning with you.
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