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Episode 24: Above and Beyond · Mystery Mirror: A Jewish Guessing Game for Kids

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello detectives! I wanted to let you know that my newest book is out, and it's a color by square book.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's called Parsha Pixels, and it comes with 54 different color challenge pages, one for every Parsha or Torah portion, and it's kind of like Mystery Myrrh because you have to figure out what you're drawing as you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you like coloring, puzzles, and mysteries, please check out Parsha Pixels.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'll include a link down below.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now, on to the show.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Listen closely, clue by clue, solve the mystery.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Mystery Mirror, a Jewish guessing game for kids.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry from that Jewish moment, and in each episode of Mystery Mirror, you will become a mystery person, place, or thing from the Jewish world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you clues in three rounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Round one, tricky clues, round two, getting closer, and round three, almost there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your mission is to guess who or what you are before the big reveal at the end.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready to look in the mystery mirror?
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, detectives, let's begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Round one, you are a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are very, very far away, and you can be incredibly old and incredibly hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're actually much bigger than you look.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are so far away that it takes a very long time for what you send to arrive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people have been looking up at you and telling stories about you for thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are so many of you that no one could possibly count them all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what you are yet?
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  SPEAKER_00: Round two.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not all the same size.
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  SPEAKER_00: People sometimes group you together and give the groups special names.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have helped people find their way and keep track of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: You appear in some stories in the Torah.
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  SPEAKER_00: One man was told that his children, his descendants, would be as numerous as you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he was told to look up at the sky and try to count you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now do you have any idea of what you could be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Round three.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: When it's light on earth you are hidden, but then when it's dark, suddenly you become visible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at a Jewish wedding, a couple gets married under a chupa, which is often directly under you.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Sukkot or on Succis, there's a place where people may actually look for you, up through a roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a regular roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, it's made of something called Sakach, and there are supposed to be spaces between the branches or sticks or leaves, so people can see you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Jewish day is over when three of you can be seen in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now do you know what you are?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for the reveal?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Look in the mirror.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: You are a star.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Mozlotove, mystery solved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know the stars you see at night are not all the same color?
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  SPEAKER_00: Some are reddish, some are yellowish, some are blue or white, and their colors can tell scientists about their temperatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know Hashem, God, once told Avraham, Abraham, to look up at the sky and try to count the stars?
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  SPEAKER_00: And there were so many he couldn't count all of them, and so Hashem, God, told him his descendants would be just as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today, when we look up at those stars, we can remember that amazing promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know you can use the stars to help find your way?
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  SPEAKER_00: The north star appears very close to the point in the sky where the north is located.
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  SPEAKER_00: And did you know that Jewish tradition has names for the constellations in the sky, and these are called mazalot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each month has a special mazal, and some of them are named after animals like the lion, the bull, scorpion, and you can find them mentioned in Jewish sources going back thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get ready for game time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's play one of my favorites, rhyme time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll say a short poem and I'll leave the last word out for you to fill in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen carefully and use rhyme to help you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Avraham looked up to count each shining light, but there were too many to count that what goes in the blank it's night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every month there's a Jewish mazal like a lion that roars or a crab that can What goes in the blank?
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  SPEAKER_00: Crawl.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you want to know if the day is done, look up and count the stars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three, two.
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  SPEAKER_00: What goes in the blank?
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  SPEAKER_00: One.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, number four.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're in the sukah, tilt your head high, look up and see the starry night.
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  SPEAKER_00: What goes in the blank?
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  SPEAKER_00: Sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time for your mystery mirror mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make up your own constellation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Draw a group of stars that makes a shape or a picture, and give your constellation a name.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Ask a grown up to send it to mirror at that Jewish moment.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Keep your minds sharp, detectives.