<HTML>This year I taught Hilkhot Shabbat to my 11th grade homeroom class, with
an eye towards the Israeli bagrut exam in dinim that they will be taking
next year. The students are from observant or masorti homes.
As we all know, with hilkhot Shabbat it is all too easy to miss the forest
for the trees. So I devoted some classes at the beginning of the year to
the larger issues of the meaning and purpose of Shabbat, and tried to
return to such themes as much as possible during the course of the year.
The "hashkafa" classes about Shabbat were enjoyable, and I would like to
make them even better next year. So if anyone has suggestions on sources,
stories, informal lessons, activities, etc. that could add to such
lessons, I would be grateful for them. Furthermore, if anyone has original
ideas about how broader hashkafic ideas can be woven into teaching
specific areas of hilkhot Shabbat throughout the course of the year, I
would be grateful for those as well.
On teaching eved kena`ani: At least as far as I noticed, no one raised
anypoints about how to teach and explain "le-olam ba-hem ta`avodu". Any
ideas?
Hag Kasher ve-Same'ah!
Seth (Avi) Kadish
Amit Karmiel Torah & Science High School</HTML>
