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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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 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 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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A tutor recently started learning Chumash with a pre-teen student, with an eye toward introducing her to nuances in the language and an appreciation of both peshat and derash approaches to interpretation. They began at the beginning of Shemot by looking at two different translations available on popular websites; the student was excited to discover…
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Think you don’t have time to learn, or even to start the process of finding a great tutor for yourself or a child? Think again! Those of us changing our clocks back an hour this weekend will gain a whole hour – a great opportunity to take those first steps to make learning happen. Why,…
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