“… Yom Kippur has become the moment when most Jews individually and the Jewish people collectively experience the strongest sense of partnership and covenant with God – the strongest sense that if the people have striven with all their energy to redress the wrongs they have done, God will forgive them and give them a […]
*Shalom Kitah Gimel Students and Families #1
*Posts entitled “Shalom Kitah Gimel Students…” are written especially for my Hebrew students and their families. All are welcome to read these posts and share in the excitement of a new school year. What a wonderful first day of Hebrew School! Our students were pleased to hear that we’re studying modern Hebrew. As this is […]
Words of Wisdom…from Arthur Waskow
Shabbat Shalom. After services on Rosh HaShana morning, I picked up a copy of the Jewish Calendar for 5771. The first month was Tishrei – no surprise there! But Judaism can be tricky – as Arthur Waskow explains in the following excerpt from his book, Seasons of Our Joy: “Rosh Hashanah comes in the month […]
L’Shana Tova
L’Shana Tova U M’tuka – A Happy and Sweet New Year May the New Year 5771 be filled with opportunities for joyful living and learning. In the coming year, visit Jewish Educators’ Village – K’far Morim for information and inspiration. Our Gates are always open!
The Lesson Planning Game: M=Methodology – Bloom’s What!?
The methodology part of lesson planning is the “how-to.” It’s where you plan what your students are actually going to do in order to achieve the learning goals for their grade. Like goals, methods of learning come from a variety of sources – from teacher’s guides to textbooks; from in-service training and administrative guidance; from […]
L’shana Tova to One and All
Repentance. Renewal. Returning to our pure selves. Looking in the mirror. T’shuvah. One of my favorite midrashim is about Reb Zusya – who upon his death was worried that he had been emulating Moses and Abraham too much, and not achieving his own Zusya potential – “In the world to come, they will not ask […]
Shabbat Shalom – Words of Wisdom From Abraham Joshua Heschel
Shabbat Shalom Today’s “Words of Wisdom” are from Abraham Joshua Heschel as quoted in Shema Yisrael, the Siddur published by Temple Israel of West Bloomfield, Michigan. “TO CELEBRATE TIME RATHER THAN SPACE” The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things […]
The Lesson Plan G.A.M.E. – A=Amount of time
Back in the days before multi-tasking, networking, and texting, general studies report cards included a skill known as, “uses time wisely.” Since the amount of time for your class is predetermined by the school schedule, using class time “wisely” is a challenge when creating a lesson plan. The following suggestions are easy ways to use […]
If only my problems would just dissapear…
HaRav Ovadia Yosef is no stranger to saying thing that cause many of us to cringe. The latest:
I read these words and feel for this man. A man who’s brain is like a computer program. He has memorized pretty much every important Jewish text of the last 2500 years. And believe it or not, on many issues where other Haredi Rabbis like him have ruled in confusingly harsh ways, he has proven moderate (again, in a certain context). And yet, he speaks about an entire people and wishes for their wholesale destruction. He wishes upon them what many for thousands of years have wished upon our people. He wishes upon them what the Nazis almost succeeded in doing.
But I want to dig a little deeper here. Because it seems to me his words are an example of a universal human truth. We all look at our lives, look at our problems, at those people, places, ideas, etc. that are causing us anguish – and wish that they would just dissapear. We allow ourselves to become stuck in one place spinning our wheels, because the cause of all our problems is one thing.
Shabbat Shalom – Words of Wisdom from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
In the spirit of Shabbat, let’s turn aside from the everyday how-to’s, what-to’s, and when-to’s, and consider Words of Wisdom from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov: “The Architect of the World never does the same thing twice Every day is an entirely new creation. Take as much as you can from what each new day has […]
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