The Holiness of Play: A Team-Written Blog with our KDS Kindergarten Teacher This past Shabbat, I had the opportunity to share some words of Torah with the CSAIR community. The focus was on the concept of play. I shared the two sources below--one refers to the importance of play, and the other refers to its essence. “By play I mean any activity in which there is room for spontaneous invention and/or change...The child who plays early, continues to play and with some luck as an adult s/he will find a kind of play that people are willing to pay him/her to do.” (Edward Hallowell) What is the difference between a play or recreational act and the rest of the acts with which we fill our world? A play act excels in the purpose which is not of outside but is found and lies within it. Amusement matters are not for another practice or goal...the act is for the play itself. - Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner Following our discussion, Dorit Niven, our amazing veretran K teacher, wrote a spot-on
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