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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Here’s today’s Tuesday TorahTutors tidbit – real Torah, from real TorahTutors sessions. A TorahTutors student looking to learn Chumash content as well as boost her Hebrew language skills saw how paying attention to grammatical details, as basic as identifying pronouns and who is doing what action, can shed important light on the story. When the…
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For this week’s Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit, a tutor describes an important teaching moment that occurred in a real TorahTutors session: In the course of studying Tanach, we discussed a pasuk (verse) that concludes the story we were learning. My student interjected and asked how this pasuk can conclude the story, seeing as it is actually the…
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