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We Love You Welcome Yeshuas Yeladim

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Please Remember These Rules Please dont talk when others are talking. Please raise your hand if you would like to ask a question. Please keep your hands and feet to yourself. You must ask to leave the room.

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Ki Tavo When You Come Deuteronomy/Devarim 26:1-29:8 Bikkurim - First Fruits

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On The Farm How many of you have lived on or visited a farm? A good farmer knows the best time to plant crops. He would watch the crops and would get excited when the plants started to grow. The first plant to sprout from the ground is called the first fruit.

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What is the First Fruit? What is the title given to the first plant that spouts from the ground? The First Fruit The first fruit is considered the best!

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The First Fruits (Bikkurim) The Hebrew word for the first fruits is Bikkurim In this week's parasha, Moses teaches us that the first fruits (Bikkurim) of the crops should be brought to the priests in the Temple.

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Devarim/Deuteronomy 26:1, 2 When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

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The Seven Species Wheat Barley Grapes Figs Pomegranates Olives Dates

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How Was The First Fruit Identified The Farmer would tie a string or ribbon around it and designate it as bikkurim. At the Temple, each family would present the basket of fruits to a kohen (priest). The LORD wants the best of everything in our lives.

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What Is Your First Fruit? If a friend came to visit in your home, would you give your most prized possession to that friend to show your love?

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Let's Learn Hebrew! The Hebrew word Bikkurim means First Fruits in English

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Points to Remember The First Fruit from the crops and fruit trees were given to the LORD The First Fruit reminds us that the LORD wants our best The LORD is to be first in our lives!

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Small Group Time

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