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Because thirteen-year-old Gabe is mentally disabled and has special needs, his rabbi and family create an unconventional bar mitzvah for him, one centered around the story of Noah's ark.
Explores the history, significance, and customs of Passover and how the holiday is celebrated in the home. Includes discussion questions.
Presents schools with a chance to (1) review the meaning and theme of individual prayers, to (2) emphasize the way prayers fit together to form services, and to...
Every prayer has a story. When the rabbis of the Talmud wanted to explain what prayer means they told the story of the first time a prayer was said. They would root each prayer in the spiritual history of major Jewish figures. By knowing these stories, we get a sense of what each prayer should mean to us. By speaking of famous moments that were human breakthroughs with God, we get to look at our own relationship with God.In this book, Joel Lurie Grishaver presents an introduction to almost every prayer in the siddur and stories that root the prayer in the heart. Here is an original way of looking at the liturgy and unfolding the meaning that is to be found there. Are you a rabbi, an educator...
Neurobiology us teaches that without meaning almost nothing is remembered. Add meaning to your Siddur teaching by adding experiences and context. Experiencing Jewish Prayer teaches no Hebrew, that has to happen somewhere else. What this book does is add meaning, context, and builds memories. This experiential book makes the standard liturgy (from all movements) into a meaningful whole. This is a perfect supplement to a different prayer teaching resource. Add it to your liturgy curriculum.
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Traditional Jewish libraries often contain a collection of volumes known as the Commentators' Bible. Arranged by weekly Torah portion, these books compile Torah insights created over hundreds of years and in dozens of countries. Such diversity has always been the key to Jewish learning.The Learn Torah With...Annuals represent a series of American Style Commentators' Bibles based on a popular weekly electronic Torah study newsletter. Each Learn Torah With...Annual features commentary from over 100 great Torah teachers representing all ideologies and backgrounds. Their comments on the weekly Torah portions are meshed with the insights of dozens of the thousands who subscribe to, read and contribute (via e-mail or fax) to this dynamic electronic conversation. Edited and collated out of a truly interactive Torah dialogue, these durable volumes are perfect additions to your home or school library.