HANC visits Living Torah Museum

Sixth graders from HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, had a fantastic trip to the Living Torah Museum. The museum is famous for its Biblical Archaeological finds and the students were fascinated by the artifacts that they saw, including a coin from the time of Chanukah with King Antiochus’ name and picture on it (appraised at $15,000) a coin with the picture of Queen Esther’s son Darius II on it (appraised at $30,000) and a $250,000 gladiator’s trident from the Roman games. The children also learned that the Amora, Reish Lakish, used to be a gladiator in the Roman Coliseum before he became a Torah scholar.

The museum trip also included a presentation about all the animals mentioned in the Torah, both Kosher and non-Kosher. The students learned that the giraffe is actually a Kosher animal but that we don’t eat it because it’s so expensive – just one giraffe costs approximately $35,000! The students also learned that according to an opinion in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the “Tachash” covering used for the Mishkan was actually made from giraffe.