Set Up - 1 hour early

Introduction - Game (10 minutes) - 00:00

Choose one of two games, ?Sukvivor? or ?Mishpoche Feud.?
The content of games is nearly identical.

Game Option 1: ?Sukvivor?

• Game show host enters
• He/she announces the game ?Sukvivor?. Teams compete for prizes.
• The team that completes its sukka first wins. To build a sukka you need all three parts:
  • Walls
  • Skach
  • Decorations
  • To get each sukkah part, each team must win at a series of challenges.
• Host divides the audience into 3-4 teams
• Note the board which indicate info that may help with the challenges

Game Board 1: What are the major symbols of Sukkoth?

Tips: Make this game board out of construction paper, size about 2m x 2m, post on the wall, for "Mishpoche Feud" cover the answers with a flap of paper

• Sukkah
• Lulav (palm)
• Etrog (citron)
• Willow (2 x aravot)
• Myrtle (3 x hadasim)
• Sukkah still up three months later
• Skach
• The organic, locally-grown apple

Game Board 2: What are the major themes of Sukkoth?

Tips: Make this game board out of construction paper, size about 2m x 2m, post on the wall, for "Mishpoche Feud" cover the answers with a flap of paper.

• The harvest
• Wandering in the desert
• Back to nature
• Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
• Joy
• Rain/water
• Unity
• Time to put on a sweater

The Challenges

• Host: ?I?ll read the challenge. You then have 30 seconds to confer with your team. Then you must perform the challenge.?
• Challenge 1: Sing a song in Hebrew or English with the theme ?Nature.?
  • After 30 seconds, each team performs
  • Host awards the winner the ?Walls? of sukkah (see List of Supplies)
  • Host calls up new rep from each team.
  
  
• Challenge 2: Sing a Hebrew or English song with the theme of ?Water?
  • Host awards winner Walls or Skach (see List of Supplies)
  • Host calls 2 people from each team
• Challenge 3: Act a short skit that uses the words Skach, Harvest, and Myrtle.
  • Host awards winner Walls, Skach, or Decorations
• Challenge 4: Create a short dance with theme of Joy or Unity
  • Host awards winner Wall, Skach, or Decorations
  • Host calls up one rep
• Challenge 5: Create a funky dance and shake of the lulav and etrog

Host awards winner Wall, Skach or Decorations

Host awards first (and maybe second and third) prize: organic produce!

• Game show host asks pre-bar mitzvah kids to join helper and go to other room for kids program
• (Kids prepare for Children?s Play ? see separate ?Children?s Program? script)
• Game show host introduces speaker for Module 1

Game Option 2: ?Mishpoche Feud?

• Game show host enters
• Host announces the game ?Mishpoche Feud.? Teams compete for prizes. The team that gets the most points wins. The topic: Sukkoth.
• Host divides the audience into 3-4 teams: The Goldbergs, The Goldsteins, The Goldstones, The Goldwins
• ?Let?s look at the questions. We surveyed Jews across North America about their knowledge on Sukkoth. The team that guesses the most popular answers wins the most points.?
  

  1. What are the major symbols of Sukkoth?

  
  Sukkah - 36
  Lulav -22
  Etrog - 18
  Willow - 9
  Myrtle - 8
  Sukkah still up three months later - 3
  Skach -3
  The organic, BC-grown apple - 1
  
  • ?Team 1, what is your guess?? Let?s team 1 answer. Removes sign, if answer is on the board.
  • ?Team 2, what is your guess?? Let team 2 answer. Removes sign, if answer is on the board.
  • Repeats process for teams 3 and 4.
  
  

  Okay now let?s go to question 2; what is the major theme of Sukkoth?

  
  The harvest ? 38
  Wandering in the desert - 32
  Back to nature - 11
  Pilgrimage to Jerusalem - 9
  Joy - 5
  Rain/water -3
  Unity ?2
  Time to put on a sweater - 1
  
  • Repeats process of asking questions.
  • ?Now let?s award the prizes.? Organic apples for everyone.
  • Game show host asks pre-bar mitzvah kids to join helper and go to other room for kids program
  • Young kids prepare go to other room to prepare for apple or GE-food pageant (see separate ?Children?s Program? script?)
  • Game show host introduces speaker for Module 1

Module 1: What is Sukkoth? (25 minutes) - 00:10

Speaker officially welcomes everyone

• Credit to Adam va-Adamah (1 minute)
  
  • Adam va-Adam is a Jewish environmental group based in BC.
  • Established in 1999
  • Mission is raise the awareness of environmental issues in the Jewish community and general public in BC and draw connections with our tradition
  • Been very active to date:
    
    • Annual Tubeshvat sedar at Louis Brier
    • Annual Retreat in (Gabriola, Whistler)
    • ?Witness? Retreat in Elaho Valley
    • Bike-a-thon
    • Environmental education at Jewish days schools and Hebrew schools
    • Hannukah program
  
  
• What is Sukkoth? (10 min)
  
  • Go over major themes of Sukkoth (from game show)
  • The harvest
  • Rain/water
  • Joy
  • Unity
  • Back to nature
  • Wandering in the desert
  
  
• Go over the major symbols of Sukkoth (from game show)
  
  • Lulav and Etrog
  • Sukkah
  • Willow
  • Myrtle
  • Eating and Sleeping in Sukkah
  • Skach
  • Decorations
  • The organic, locally-grown apple
  
  
• Focus on Spirituality and Food (5 min) ?
  (this can be scaled back ? just suggestions)
  
  • Centrality of food and agriculture in Sukkoth
    
    • ?When the temple stood, the alter elevated humanity. Now that the temple does not exist, our table becomes our alter.? (Babylonian Talmud, Menahot 97A)
    • Three pilgrimages related to bringing harvest to temple (Peach, Shavout, Sukkoth)
    • Role of kashurut (big topic but worth a mention)
    • Reason we say brachot over food
      
      • Thinking, leads us to examine kavanah
      • If no thought ? leads to abuse
    
    
  • Centrality of stewardship of land
    
    • Psalm 24:1 ? ?The earth is G_d?s and the fullness thereof; the settled lands and the its inhabitants.?
    • Psalm 115:16 ? ?The heaven?s are G_d?s heavens, but the earth G_d gave to humankind.?
    • Interpretation: Earth is Hashem?s until we say a blessing; after blessing, earth becomes ours
    • Shmita year (connection with land)
  
  
• Speaker asks for kids to return from kids program
  

• Ritual with Lulav and Etrog (5 min)
• Kids perform either apple or GE food pageant (5 min)
• Host leads blessing over organic apple
• Host directs pre-bar/bat mitvah kids to other room for crafts project
• Host set the stage for Module 2

Module 2: Agricultural Teaching (25 minutes) - 00:35

• Choose an agricultural theme. If you select organics, introduce Organic Broadcast CBC video. If you choose GE foods, show The Genetic Takeover.
• Video presentation
• Sum up video

Module 3: Weaving it Together (30 minutes) - 01:00

Option 1: GE Foods

• Speaker introduces three themes:
  1. GE Foods and Jewish Tradition
  2. GE Food and Health
  3. GE Foods and Globalization

Option 2: Organics

• Speaker introduces two themes
  1. Organics
  2. The Four Species (local versus distant)
• Break into groups
• Appoint a spokesperson
• Discuss in groups (20 min)
• Reconvene and report in (5 min)
• Speaker credit Adam va-Adamah, invites all to join organization: www.av-a.org
• Thanks to all concerned
• End with story
  Two men fighting over land
  Go to rabbi
  You guys can?t figure it out, I?ll listen to land
  Land says you don?t own, you belong to it.
• Young kids finish crafts project

Snack and Music (optional) (30 minutes) - 01:35

Clean up and pack up (1 hour) - 02:30