In this lesson, students will review the story of how Har Sinai was chosen to be mountain on which Bnei Yisrael received the Torah, and will analyze what lessons on humility we can learn from this story.

This lesson explores how new holidays have been added to the Jewish calendar and saying brakhot with the wording “asher kideshanu b’mitzvotav,” despite the Torah’s prohibition of not adding to the mitzvot (“bal tosif”). It also highlights the importance of Israel.

In this lesson, students will explore key customs related to the holiday of Shavuot and discuss how they add meaning to the holiday. Students will utilize their new understanding to consider the role of these customs in their personal holiday experiences.

This lesson examines Rabbi Akiva’s explanation of the mitzvah Ve’Ahavta L’Rei’acha Kamocha as “zeh klal gadol baTorah.” It offers educators the option to combine physical activity, music, stories, and games to help students understand, internalize, and practice the concepts surrounding this mitzvah.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the time period of Sefirat HaOmer, its connection to the shivat haminim, and the different reasons for counting as we do. Students will have the opportunity to make meaningful connections between the commandments about the time period and the process of growth.

This lesson will explore the significance of fire, the character of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and how these bonfires have come to be part of wider Jewish Israeli culture on Lag BaOmer.

This lesson incorporates the mitzvah from the Torah of Sefirat HaOmer, which is agriculturally based, and the various spiritual approaches to counting the Omer, with a special focus on the Chassidic concept of sefirot.

This lesson provides options to help facilitate learning and engaging with the Haggadah in ways that are suitable for high school students. These options offer the opportunity for differentiation and creativity and allow students to create authentic and meaningful projects emanating from the Haggadah.

This lesson is designed to make students aware of how Esther and Mordechai intentionally used literary clues and intertextuality to achieve their goals. Tuning in to those clues reveals how history both repeats itself and how old challenges can be addressed – and resolved – in new contexts.