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Episode 22: Having a Blast · Mystery Mirror: A Jewish Guessing Game for Kids

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, detectives.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: I know I already put out an episode this week, but I wanted to squeeze in another.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that's okay with you.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Listen closely, clue by clue.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Solve the mystery.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Mystery Mirror, a Jewish guessing game for kids.
• 0:18
  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.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you clues in three rounds.
• 0:31
  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.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready to look in the mystery mirror?
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Alright detectives, let's begin.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Round one, you are a thing.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: You're connected to a special time of year when people think about the past and the future.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: You have a very interesting shape.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: You were once part of something that was alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are used to make a sound, but you don't need any batteries or electricity.
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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 hard on the outside and hollow on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have an opening on one end and a smaller opening on the other, and you can be short or long, you could be curved, straight, somewhere in between.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't make your sound all by yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone has to use their breath to make you come alive.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't have any keys or strings or buttons, but you can still make several different sounds.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: You have been used for a very long time to send important messages without using words.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now, do you have any idea of what you could be?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Round three.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have been used for thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Long ago, sounds like yours could be used to announce something important or to gather people together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, you are usually connected with a specific time of the Jewish year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sounds you make have special names, and the order in which they are sounded matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can make one long blast, a few broken sounds, or a bunch of very quick sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not played for entertainment.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Your sound is meant to make people stop, listen, and think.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now, do you know what you are?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for the reveal?
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Look in the mirror.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: You are a shofar mozzle tove mystery solved.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know blowing a shofar isn't as easy as it looks?
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: You actually have to buzz your lips just right to make it make a noise.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: And the shape of a shofar affects the way it sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: A longer shofar usually makes a lower sound, and a shorter one makes a higher sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jews from different parts of the world have different kinds of shofars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews usually used a curved ram's horns, and some Yemenite Jews use a long twisty shofar made from a kudu antelope horn.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: At Har Sinai or at Mount Sinai, the Jewish people heard a powerful shofar sound when they gathered to receive the Torah.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Get ready for game time! Let's practice making shofar sounds.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: First, I'll teach you the three sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I say tikiah, you say two one long sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I say shvarim, you say two to two three broken sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I say trua, you say tut a whole bunch of quick sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start slowly Tikiah Shavarim Tikiah Terua.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Great, now let's mix them up a little.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Shvarim Terua Tikiah Teruah Shivarim Tikiah.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time for your mystery mirror mission.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: Build a chaufar out of any items you can find.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: Take a picture and ask a grown up to send it to mirror at that Jewish Moment dot com.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Keep your minds sharp, Detectives.