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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Prayer

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphכ״ג במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (November 10, 2020)

A mother and daughter with little background in Jewish learning wanted to explore Jewish prayer together with their TorahTutors tutor. They began with the question: “If you had never heard of prayer, would it occur to you to do it?” A midrash suggests it did occur to the first human in the world, and that…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Change

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphט״ז במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (November 3, 2020)

An adult TorahTutors student studying the Book of Ruth was interested in a comment by Malbim at the beginning of chapter 2. Malbim notes that Naomi could have gone directly to Boaz to ask for food: the text emphasizes that they knew each other, and describes Boaz’s stellar character; surely he would not have refused…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Breaking News Gently

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphט׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (October 27, 2020)

Why didn’t God simply command Avraham to “Go to the land that I will show you”? Why preface with so many details – “from your land,” “from your birthplace,” and “from your father’s house”? The Kli Yakar suggests the command was phrased this way “because it might have been difficult for Avraham to accept everything…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Text-Teaching Tools

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphב׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (October 20, 2020)

One way to help students stay actively engaged with text is to provide specific tasks that help draw focus to the details. And online learning offers a lot of tools for that!   For example, after a preliminary conversation about lists and headings (e.g. “These are the things to buy at the store: Milk, eggs,…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Being a Link in a Chain

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphכ״ה בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (October 13, 2020)

Today’s TorahTutors Tidbit relates to this week’s Torah portion, where we learn about the beginnings of the world and of human history, and about development beyond those beginnings.   When one TorahTutors student began her partial study of the Book of Bereishit, it was with a specific eye towards gaining a sense of the world’s…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About The Oral Law

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי״ח בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (October 6, 2020)

It is traditional to read Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) on the Shabbos of Chol Hamoed Sukkot – or this year, since there is no Shabbos Chol Hamoed, on Shemini Atzeret.   The book of Kohelet is so difficult to understand that the Talmud (Shabbos 30b) says the Sages considered excluding it from the biblical canon because of…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Sukkot

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי״א בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (September 29, 2020)

A TorahTutors student was going on an extended family vacation and in lieu of a session, her parents requested material she could learn independently while away, to review with her tutor upon their return. (Note: This one is a throwback tidbit, pre-pandemic and travel concerns.) They were learning Parshat Re’eh at the time, and the…

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TorahTutors Featured in a Northeast Ohio Jewish Newspaper

UncategorizedBy amihai zipporה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (September 23, 2020)

Director Sarah Rudolph was interviewed by the Cleveland Jewish News and shared how TorahTutors has been able to meet learners’ ever-changing needs during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/torahtutors-org-takes-on-more-important-role-today/article_12bc6c60-fc30-11ea-8b8b-23169f124156.html

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About the Mood of Yom Kippur

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphד׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (September 22, 2020)

What is the proper frame of mind with which to approach the Days of Awe, from Rosh Hashana through Yom Kippur? Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are both holidays that fit the Talmudic criteria to recite Hallel (Arakhin 10b); however, the joyous prayer is deemed inappropriate for the time of judgement. Rabbi Abahu relates, “The…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Rosh Hashana

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphכ״ו באלול ה׳תש״פ (September 15, 2020)

It’s the last Tuesday in the Jewish month of Elul; time for a TorahTutors Teruah* Tidbit! (*teruah = shofar sound that starts with a “t”) A young student and her tutor began reviewing laws and customs of Rosh Hashanah by discussing the symbolic foods they each eat on Rosh Hashana, such as apple and honey…

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