The Tranquility of Trust – A Parsha Post by TorahTutors Director Sarah Rudolph
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Chanukah, Milk, and Sleep
Special for Chanukah: a Tuesday TorahTutors tidbit! Real Torah, from real TorahTutors sessions. While oily foods (latkes and donuts) get the most press on Chanukah, Rema (Shulchan Aruch OC 670:2) mentions a custom to eat cheese, in commemoration of a miracle performed through milk in the story of Yehudit – who fed milk to an…
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Perfect Heroes? – A parsha post by TorahTutors Director Sarah Rudolph
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About the Rise of Egyptian Slavery
Time for a Tuesday TorahTutors tidbit: real Torah, from real TorahTutors sessions. A TorahTutors student learning the beginning of Shemot noticed that the multiple verbs describing how the Israelites increased and spread throughout Egypt convey an impression that they were felt to be intruding – though they had already been settled in the land, welcomed…
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It’s the Little Things – A parsha post by TorahTutors Director Sarah Rudolph
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Conversation Skills from the Mishna
A TorahTutors student learned a Mishna in Pirkei Avot (5:7) with clear relevance to daily communication skills. The Mishna says that a wise person: doesn’t answer on behalf of someone older or wiser doesn’t interrupt when someone else is speaking thinks before they answer asks relevant questions and answers accordingly responds in an orderly manner…
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A Pair, But Not the Same – A parsha post by TorahTutors Director Sarah Rudolph
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Tuneful Tools
A TorahTutors tutor recently started with a new student and has taken to singing the parshiyot of the Torah with him, in order, at the beginning of each session. This tuneful technique is a time-honored tradition; in fact, the tune they’re using is the same one the tutor was taught as a child! And of…
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A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Other People’s Property
A TorahTutors student recently engaged in some comparative character study, by learning Rashi’s explanation of two different incidents about two different people and their attitudes towards others’ property. In the first, Rashi cites a midrashic explanation for the quarrels between Avraham’s and Lot’s shepherds in Bereishit 13:7. Noting the seemingly irrelevant statement, in the same…
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Don’t Worry! – A parsha post by TorahTutors.org Director Sarah Rudolph
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