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Director of TorahTutors Joins Board of Tradition

UncategorizedBy amihai zipporי״ג בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (November 29, 2020)

TorahTutors is pleased to congratulate our Director, Sarah Rudolph, on her recent appointment to the editorial committee of Tradition! Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought is published by the Rabbinical Council of America. It was founded in 1958 by Rabbi Normal Lamm and has been led since January 2019 by Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, who…

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Happy Thanksgiving from TorahTutors

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphי׳ בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (November 26, 2020)

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, ob”m, once wrote about Thanksgiving: Though you don’t have to be religious to be grateful, there is something about belief in God as creator of the universe, shaper of history and author of the laws of life that directs and facilitates our gratitude. It is hard to feel grateful to a…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Tearing Texts

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphח׳ בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (November 24, 2020)

A person who finds a lost object takes on responsibility not only to return the item but to make reasonable efforts to keep it in good condition until the owner comes to claim it. For instance, the Mishna (Bava Metzia 2:8) states that books (in those days, scrolls) must be read – or at least…

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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Following

UncategorizedBy Sarah Rudolphא׳ בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (November 17, 2020)

While TorahTutors learning is generally not school-based, it can involve homework when appropriate – and occasionally, a school may offer credit for TorahTutors sessions as part of a student’s individualized Jewish Studies requirements, which may take the homework up a notch. In one such case, a high school senior submitted an essay developing insight into…

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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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