Prophetic

I use puppets and props in teaching Torah to my group of preschool and kindergarten students. On Saturday, we were studying Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.

Maybe we spent too long gluing the first 10 letters of the Hebrew alephbet to our tagboard tablets, but by the time Moses was climbing Mount Sinai, the children were, let's just say, a bit unruly.

"Whack." (That's the sound of one puppet hitting another.) One child and his puppet were gently kicked off the mountain and assigned to wait at its base. "Whack, whack." Another two children and their puppets were scrubbed from the mountain.

By the time we got back to the story, only one Moses puppet remained atop Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. The rest of the puppets were misbehaving at the bottom of the mountain.