Our very own Sefer Torah

This week, Yisrael's Rebbe taught the boys all about the different parts of a Sefer Torah (since we take out 2 ספרי תורה on Shabbos because of פרשת החודש). So that, coupled with the הכנסת ספר תורה in Yeshiva this week, got Yisrael very fascinated by ספרי תורה. To top it all off, he went to daven in Yeshiva today, and got to see the ספרי תורה and say חזק חזק ונתחזק!

So of course, after all the ספר תורה experiences he's had this week, he spent the afternoon building a very elaborate ספר תורה - much more advanced than some of the earlier models he used to make. This one has עצי חיים, with קלף wrapped around, and a מעיל to cover it, with a special כתר on top. He even wanted to make a יד but we decided that its just too hard to make with Clics.

After he finished making his ספר תורה, he pretended to lain from it (yup, that's a real יד he's holding!)

(Yisrael is actually going to start learning how to lain with "trop" after Pesach...so then he'll really be able to pretend to be a בעל קורא!)