MILCHEMET HAMELACHIM – LESSON 3 40 minutes Grades: 2-3 Lesson Plan Four-lesson unit on Bereshit 14: 1-24. Students participate in multiple intelligences exercises in order to understand the battle of the kings. Includes worksheets. LESSON OBJECTIVES Students will be...
Milchemet Hamelachim – Lesson 2
MILCHEMET HAMELACHIM – LESSON 2 40 minutes Grades: 2-3 Lesson Plan Four-lesson unit on Bereshit 14: 1-24. Students participate in multiple intelligence exercises in order to understand the Battle of the Kings. LESSON OBJECTIVES Students will be able to: 1. Relate how...
Milchemet Hamelachim – Lesson 1
MILCHEMET HAMELACHIM – LESSSON 1 40 minutes Grades: 2-3 Lesson Plan Four-lesson unit on Bereshit 14: 1-24. Students participate in multiple intelligence exercises to understand the battle of the kings. LESSON OBJECTIVES Students will be able to: 1.Describe how the...
4MAT Lesson Plan on Vayeshev
4MAT LESSON PLAN ON VAYESHEV 40 minutes Grades: 2-5 Lesson Plan In this 4MAT lesson plan, students learn the story of Vayeshev 37: 5-7 and analyze it’s meaning. INTRODUCTION This lesson uses the 4MAT teaching model. 4MAT lessons involve a variety of activities which...
Karaites In The Classroom: On the Use of Group Role-Playing in the Teaching of Jewish History
The Karaites are thus a topic that should be included in a course in medieval Jewish history. But how can it be made both interesting and meaningful to the high school student? The following is the approach that I have adopted in 11th-grade Jewish history classes and which relies largely, although not exclusively, on the use of group role-playing.
On Teaching Halakhah
On Teaching Halakhah This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 1996, 9:1, pp. 55-62. Reprinted here with permission. A Prefatory Plea Although I have given the matter much thought and have some ideas for the resolution of the difficulties I see in the...
Toward Spiritual Education
Addressing the Problem of "Disconnection": Creating a Learning Environment of Personal Relevance and Passion based on the Wisdom of the Kabbalah I) The Problem: For the past 15 years I have been teaching full-time. I have taught Jewish Studies to adults, ranging in...
Goals of the Day School Movement: Torah scholars, all?
From Ten Da’at, Volume VII, Number 1, Fall 1993. Appears here with permission. I Historically, until the mid-twentieth century, yeshiva education past the elementary level was considered a luxury, usually afforded to those who showed extraordinary intellectual...
Teaching the Flood Story: The Importance of Cultural Context
Teaching the Flood Story:The Importance of Cultural Context Reprinted from Ten Da’at 9:1 Winter 1996 Most yeshivah students learn the pre-patriarchal biblical stories in the early years of elementary school, and for many, this remains their only systematic study of...
Israel Independence Day and the Halakhah
By: Rabbi Dr. Meyer Karlin Introduction Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, its Independence Day, or Yom HaAtzmaut has been celebrated in a variety of ways. The religious community, at least that major part of it which saw in the founding of the State a...