On Sunday, November 18th, the students and I took time to look at their next Torah trope assignment. Now that we have fully covered the first three trope clauses: Etnachtah, Sof-Pasuk and Katon, the students are ready to chant their second portion: Genesis 32 4-7. Continue reading
Month: November 2015
Ein Kamocha
On Wednesday, Jessica Kimmel-Choldin was the first student to present her T’filah Project on Ein Kamocha. Jessie’s lesson was thoughtful, well-planned and extremely well executed. Continue reading
Revelation and the Covenant of Abraham
For the past few weeks, our 6th graders have been learning about the concepts of Holiness, Revelation and Covenant. We began by defining holiness, what it means to be holy. We performed a ‘scavenger hunt’ around the synagogue in search of holy objects and we discussed how a mundane object could be a holy object depending on its use and context. Continue reading