50 minutes Grades:7-8 Lesson Plan In this lesson, students will study Judaism’s sanctification of day-to-day material objects and actions, specifically the sanctification of eating that is reflected in Birkat HaMazon. Lesson objectives Content Students will be able...
50 minutes Grades:7-8 Lesson Plan This lesson is a continuation of Birkat HaMazon lesson 2. Introduction Students work with the text of Birkat HaMazon itself, improving reading and comprehension of the text, preparing for the rest of the unit. Lesson objectives...
50 minutes Grades:7-8 Lesson Plan In hevrutah, students read the text of Birkat HaMazon and determine the main themes of the prayer. Introduction These lessons serve as an introduction to the text of Birkat HaMazon. Students will work with the text itself, improving...
Grades:1-9 Lesson Plan This lesson plan offers the teacher some tools for coping with the day after a disaster. Introduction This elementary school/middle school lesson plan offers teachers some tools for coping with the day after a disaster. Using students'...
Worksheets for the weekly Torah portion or Parashat Hashavua are available below. The "Shabbat Shalom" series by Moshe Abelesz tests elementary students' parashat hashavua comprehension. Students identify textual references (in Hebrew) and answer a discussion question...
Introduction There is nothing new about the depiction of Biblical stories and Biblical characters in theater, film, and opera. Cecil B. De Mille’s Ten Commandments and Camille Saint-Saens’ Samson and Delila immediately come to mind as successful examples. While...
Based on a text composed by Shlomo Goren, Chief Rabbi of Israel with Forward by Joseph H. Lookstein, Chairman, Rabbinic Cabinet, United Jewish Appeal, for the observance of an Israel Independence Day family, congregational or communal seder. (1978) Click here. ...
The religious orientation of Columbus Torah Academy affirms that a Jewish child must be educated to understand that the belief in G-d is the moral imperative for human action. The philosophy of Columbus Torah Academy is founded in the belief that the Torah is G-d...
BEYOND PARSHANUT: USING MIDRASH TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING OF VALUES [1] Nathaniel Helfgot Rabbi Helfgot is the Coordinator of the Jewish Studies curriculum at Ma'ayanot High School, and a faculty member at the Drisha Institute. This article appeared in Ten Da’at 11...
The story of the Akedah, the binding and near sacrifice of Yitzchak, is the high point in Avraham's life. The event is described in the Torah in quick short strokes, however, these nineteen sentences give rise to an enormous body of Midrash. To read more click here.
