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Episode 20: A Quiet Reminder · Mystery Mirror: A Jewish Guessing Game for Kids

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Listen closely, clue by clue, solve the mystery.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Mystery Mirror, a Jewish guessing game for kids.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry from that Jewish moment, and in each episode of Mystery Mirror, you'll become a mystery person, place, or thing from the Jewish world.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you clues in three rounds.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Round one, tricky clues, round two, getting closer, and round three, almost there.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Your mission is to guess who or what you are before the big reveal at the end.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready to look in the mystery mirror?
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Alright detectives, let's begin.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Round one, you are a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are usually grey, black, or white, and you're very light.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can be carried away by the wind.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: You are soft and powdery, and you are much smaller than you once were.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: You weren't always like this.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you can make things look very dusty or dirty.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you get on someone's fingers, you might turn them grayish.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what you are yet?
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Round two.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are what is left after something burns.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not the fire, but you do remind people that there once was one.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can come from wood, paper, or other things that have burned, and by the time people touch you, you are usually cool.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people sprinkle or collect you for a special reason.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now, do you have any idea of what you could be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Round three.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people use you as a symbol of sadness or mourning.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: And before Tishab, some people dip part of their meal into you as a reminder of that loss.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And in some traditional Jewish weddings, there's a custom to place a tiny bit of you on the forehead as a reminder that even in moments of great joy we remember Jerusalem.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now do you know what you are?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for the reveal?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Look in the mirror.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: You are ashes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mozletove.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Mystery solved.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know not everything leaves ashes when it burned?
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Some materials leave very little, while wood usually leaves quite a bit.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: And did you know ashes can actually help plants grow?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Wood ashes contain certain minerals like calcium and potassium, and sometimes they're even added to soil to help certain plants.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that in many Jewish communities people have a custom before Tish Abba'av of dipping their bread or a hard-boiled egg into ashes?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: And this takes place during a meal called the Suuda Hamafseket, the final meal before the fast, as a way of remembering the destruction of the Betamagdash, the Holy Temple.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Get ready for game time.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Let's play rhyme time.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say a short poem and I'll leave the last word out for you to fill in.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Listen carefully and use rhyme to help you.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, ashes are tiny and often are grey, they can be carried by the wind far what goes in the blank away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, though the holy temple was destroyed, we still love the building it was Antisha What Goes in the Blank?
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  SPEAKER_00: But of and finally number three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when things are broken or gone, we hold on to hope and keep moving what goes in the blank on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time for your mystery mirror mission.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Ashes remind us to remember things that happened before.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Draw or write about something important that you never want to forget, and ask a grown-up to send it to Mirror at ThatJewish Moment.com.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: And if you color in the coloring page, please send a picture.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to see how yours comes out.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Keep your minds sharp, detectives.