Recently, I brought to life the Rashi which explains why Yaakov is not afraid to return home despite his brother Esav being ready to take revenge.
Esav is compared to a mountain of Hay: large and intimidating. The students explored their own fears, they wrote out a few Hebrew sentences about there personal fears.
We went outside and experienced for ourselves the analogy of Hay. With one match the entire bale of Hay went up in flames. The students also burnt their sentences about fears to signify that many of our own fears are like the Hay scary and intimidating but we can overcome them.
May we all find the fire within us!
כאשר ילדה רחל את יוסף: משנולד שטנו של עשו, שנאמר (עובדיה א יח) והיה בית יעקב אש ובית יוסף להבה ובית עשו לקש, אש בלא להבה אינו שולט למרחוק, משנולד יוסף בטח יעקב בהקב"ה ורצה לשוב:
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