Episode 16: An Unusual Wonder

Welcome to Episode 16 of "Mystery Mirror: A Jewish Guessing Game for Kids" with Sari Kopitnikoff from That Jewish Moment.

In each episode of Mystery Mirror, you’ll become a mystery person, place, or thing from the Jewish world. This week, you’ll become a strange place that people visit. Can you figure out what you are before the big reveal?

In three fun rounds of clues (from tricky, to getting closer, to almost there), you’ll guess who or what you’ve become. Will you get it before the mirror reveals the answer?

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Transcript

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Listen closely, clue by clue, solve the mystery. Who are you? Welcome to Mystery Mirror, a Jewish guessing game for kids. 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. I'll give you clues in three rounds. Round one, tricky clues, round two, getting closer, and round three, almost there. Your mission is to guess who or what you are before the big reveal at the end. Are you ready to look in the mystery mirror? Alright detectives, let's begin. Round one, you are a place. People travel from all over to visit you. You are filled with water. There is a lot that is unusual about you. You are filled with a very high amount of salt and something called minerals. Do you know what you are yet? Round two. You are between countries. Visitors sometimes bring home products made from your mineral rich water and your mud. Your name is a little confusing because you're not really what your name makes you sound like. Now, do you have any idea of what you could be? Round three. Fish do not live in your water. People can float easily on you. Even though you are called a sea, you are actually a lake. Now do you know what you are? Are you ready for the reveal? Look in the mirror. You are the Dead Sea. So even though it's called a sea, it doesn't actually connect to the ocean. It's located between Israel and Jordan in a region called the Jordan Rift Valley. And because there's so much salt in the water, people float much more easily than in normal water. And many people use Dead Sea products, including minerals and mud, for skin care and lots of other uses. And the Dead Sea is mentioned in Tanakh in biblical texts as Yam Hamalach and Yam Haarava. Get ready for game time. Let's play Pack for the Dead Sea. I'm going to list ten things that I would bring to the Dead Sea. Pay attention and see how many you can remember. Ready? I'm going to the Dead Sea and I'm going to pack a water bottle, sunscreen, a towel, a swimsuit, snacks, sunglasses, a hat, a change of clothes, goggles, and a bag for all the wet stuff. Now how many of those items can you remember? Name as many as you can, and then I have one more challenge for you. Okay, go. What did I pack to go to the Dead Sea? Okay, now I'm about to leave the Dead Sea. I'm packing up all my stuff, and I see I only have nine things with me. Can you figure out which item I forgot? Here's what I have a water bottle, sunscreen, a towel, a swimsuit, snacks, a hat, a change of clothes, goggles, and a bag for all the wet stuff. Can you figure out what I forgot? My sunglasses. And now it's time for your mystery mirror mission. No fish can live in the Dead Sea. So write a short story or draw a comic about a fish trying to visit. What do you think would happen? Write about it or draw a picture and ask a grown-up to send it to mirror at that JewishMoment.com. Thanks for listening. And if you color in the coloring page that I made for this week, please send a picture. I'd love to see how yours comes out. Until next time. Keep your minds sharp, detectives.