Shoafim It’s a Good Life Chug: Second Session 2025!

I’ve been having a great time this machzor (session) with the SHOAFIM chanichim/ot in The It’s A Good Life Chug!

This special chug, offered exclusively to adat ha-Shoafim, as a special treat for being the oldest on Tzad Aleph (A-Side), meets periodically during the summer for fun and goofy peulot (activities).

To get into the chug, campers have to write a twenty-two-and-a-half word essay, on a creative canvas of their choice (paper is not allowed), expressing why they should, nay MUST, be allowed entrance into the chug.  Here are just a few of this year’s entries.  Yoav (Rosh Shoafim) & I were, as always, so impressed by the creativity of the Shoafimers!!!

This entry was written in Elvish!!!  Wow!!

Pictured at the top of this blog is our first gathering, at the start of this session, to welcome all the new Good Life members with a blue drink l’chaim.  (Since the beginning, blue drink has been a key part of the chug.  Because it’s silly, of course!  At each event I bring some blue beverages — I have a variety of different ones we use — for the kids to enjoy.)

We’ve done a number of different Good Life events this summer.  One of my favorites was when I challenged the kids to make candy portraits of me.  They made some really funny creations!!  (I had a bit of a beard at the time; I love how the kids depicted that in candy form!)  And then of course the kids all ate the candy at the end.

We have a few more Good Life events still coming up this week, before the end of camp…!  I love getting to spend time with these great Shoafim campers and helping to celebrate their being the oldest on Tzad Aleph!