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Episode 15: First Things First · Mystery Mirror: A Jewish Guessing Game for Kids

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Listen closely, clue by clue.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Solve the mystery.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Mystery Mirror, a Jewish guessing game for kids.
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  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.
• 0:37
  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 often first.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are found in many books and pages and signs and sometimes art.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are important.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are a part of a team with 21 other members.
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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: Though you appear a lot, you don't really say much, but sometimes, with the help of some dots and dashes around you, you do make some noise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many children learn about you when they're young, and sometimes adults learn about you for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: You especially like the Hebrew month of Adar and the mitzvah of shaking the etrogue or esrogue.
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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.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're used as a number, you are a number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are a letter.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't begin the Torah, but you do begin the Ten Commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people think you look a little like an airplane or an X.
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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?
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  SPEAKER_00: Look in the mirror.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the letter Olif.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mosletove.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mystery solved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know our sages tell us a story that the letter Aleph was sad?
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't the start of the Torah, but then in the end, it was chosen to be the beginning of the Ten Commandments, the Asera Tadibrot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Hebrew letters each stand for a number.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is called gematria.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aleph is equal to one.
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  SPEAKER_00: An aleph is also the first letter of the word echad, which means one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many people notice that an aleph looks like it's made from a few letters together.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a slanted vov with a little yud on top and another yud on the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And alef is usually silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though it's the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it often lets the vowels do the talking.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: Get ready for game time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's play Olif check.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll say a word in English, and you tell me if you think its Hebrew word starts with Oliph.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this may be a total guessing game for you, or you may know some or all of the answers, and this will be review.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, does the Hebrew word for elephant begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peel means elephant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, does the Hebrew word for mother begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word is ima.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, does the Hebrew word for wind begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, wind is ruach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, does the Hebrew word for love begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is ahava.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, does the Hebrew word for light begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Light is or number six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does the Hebrew word for sun begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, sun is shemesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number seven, does the Hebrew word for land begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, land is Eretz.
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  SPEAKER_00: And last but not least, number eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does the Hebrew word for lion begin with olive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, lion is Arye.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time for your mystery mirror mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: Draw a giant olive and turn it into something creative and fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you make it into an animal or a robot, a spaceship, whatever comes to your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Use your imagination and see what your olive becomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Draw a picture and 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: And if you color in the coloring page, please send a picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to see how yours comes out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: Keep your minds sharp, detectives.