The ancient rabbis believed that the world rests on three pillars: study, worship, and good deeds. It is said that the greatest of these is study, for it leads to the other two. But exactly how does the modern Jewish reader go about studying the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash the great ancient and often hard-to-comprehend texts of our tradition? And how do we glean the great insights and wisdom from these sacred texts, which inspired our ancestors, and apply them to our modern lives? With guidance from renowned author and educator Barry Holtz, these ancient texts take on new meaning for us. He...
The ancient rabbis believed that the world rests on three pillars: study, worship, and good deeds. It is said that the greatest of these is study, for...
A program for Grade 4 or 5 (11 to 12 year olds). The Teacher's Edition of the Student Workbook provides advice for coordination with the Teacher's Guide as well as suggested answers for student exercises. This program is also highly appropriate for day schools, older students and adults, as individuals and groups.
A program for Grade 4 or 5 (11 to 12 year olds). The Teacher's Edition of the Student Workbook provides advice for coordination with the Teacher's Gui...
A Teacher's Guide for Exodus, similar in method to the Genesis curriculum and designed for Grade 5 (12 or 13 year olds). This totally revised guide is also appropriate for day schools, older students and adults, as individuals and groups.
A Teacher's Guide for Exodus, similar in method to the Genesis curriculum and designed for Grade 5 (12 or 13 year olds). This totally revised guide is...
Kashrut is a system of laws which tells what foods are 'fit' to eat. Kashrut divides food into three categories: Meat, dairy, and neutral (fruits and vegetables). Most of the laws of Kashrut are concerned with the animal foods and how they can be combined with other foods. This workboos, appropriate for students in grades 3-6, will help to teach which animals can be considered kosher, how animals are slaughtered and prepared so that they are kosher, which foods are mean, milk, and neutral, and the laws of separation of milk and meat foods.
Kashrut is a system of laws which tells what foods are 'fit' to eat. Kashrut divides food into three categories: Meat, dairy, and neutral (fruits and ...
The holiday materials of this curriculum for 11 year olds emphasize a review and consolidation of the first three years of the Melton curriculum through an innovative set of worksheets and individualized instruction. Rather than focusing on frontal teaching, each topic is covered with a set of activities that the teacher can use with individual students, in groups or as homework. A wide range of activities allows students to choose, with the teacher's guidance, worksheets appropriate to their interests and knowledge. The prayer component introduces the student to additional liturgical texts...
The holiday materials of this curriculum for 11 year olds emphasize a review and consolidation of the first three years of the Melton curriculum throu...
A fully updated and revised edition of a classic text on Jewish prayer.
The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions. Because Hasidic literature contains no systematic manual of contemplative prayer, the texts included in this volume have been culled from many sources. From the teachings of the Hasidic Masters--the Ba'al Shem Tov, the Maggid Dov Baer of Meidzyrzec, and their immediate disciples--the editors have gleaned "hints as to the various rungs of inner prayer and how they are attained."
Hasidism,...
A fully updated and revised edition of a classic text on Jewish prayer.
The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transfo...
