If there were a theme song to accompany this week’s Torah Portion, Be-Chukkotai, it would be the classic Commencement processional, “Pomp and Circumstance.” We are in the midst of graduation season for everyone from pre-schoolers moving up to kindergarten to adult scholars receiving advanced degrees. Where there are graduation ceremonies, there are sure to be […]
Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #26
The year has flown by! Here we are on the final day of the Hebrew month of Nisan and the last day of Hebrew class. Together we recited the Blessing for Torah Study. Students took turns asking and anwering the questions in the attendance conversation – all by heart. We had an abundance of special […]
Shabbat Commentary – Kedoshim
This week’s Torah Portion, Kedoshim, gets right to the point. In the second line, God tells Moses, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, the Eternal your God, am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2)* This powerful directive is immediately followed by a multitude of commandments, many of which […]
Shabbat Commentary – Acharei Mot (belated post)
There are many ways to engage in Torah Study: Shabbat sessions with a Rabbi, adult education courses, face-to-face or on-line chevruta (study groups), independent study using classic and modern commentaries. Or -you might commit to teaching Torah to children.This school year, I decided to devote part of my sixth grade modern Hebrew language class to […]
Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #25
As we began our class with the Blessings for Torah Study and cookies, we noticed that students were eating a variety of other snack foods – a teachable moment! We discussed and recited the Blessing that is said over a mixture of foods and reviewed the meaning of the food Blessings. One student asked why […]
Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #24
Students led the Blessings for Torah Study and cookies and also led the attendance conversation. Our Director of Lifelong Learning visited our class and gave each student an evaluation form to fill out regarding his/her Hebrew School experience this year. Students were instructed to be candid and not to sign their names, so that their […]
Shabbat Commentary- Metzora
The Torah is Judaism’s most sacred object. We remove the Torah Scroll from the Ark with great ceremony and Blessings and we return it similarly with prayers expressing awe and respect. This week, we study the Torah Portion, Metzora, which continues the themes of the previous Portion, Tazria. So far, in the yearly cycle of […]
Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #23
We began our class using only Hebrew (Rock Ivrit) as students led the Blessings for Torah Study and cookies. We moved on to the attendance conversation, also student led, and discovered that we’re now in the month of Nisan. In answer to the question Ayzeh chag b’chodesh Nisan? (“Which Holiday is in the month of […]
Shabbat Commentary – Tazria
This week’s Torah Portion, Tazria, tends to evoke the response “E-w-w-w!” in students who discover that it is their Bar/Bat Mitzvah Portion. Tazria teaches God’s commandments regarding human and non-human states of purity and impurity. Tazria begins with God (through Moses) describing to the children of Israel, the rituals for restoring a woman’s “purity” after […]
Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #22
Today, our modern Hebrew lesson was conducted almost entirely in Hebrew, beginning with the Blessing for Torah Study and cookies and the attendance conversation. To review the vocabulary students had studied for homework, we did an activity called Ma B’Kufsa? (“What’s in the box?”) Each table received a different type of box with an object […]
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