The Re-Imagine Guidebook
The RE-IMAGINE Project Guidebook consists of six chapters detailing involvement in the Re-Imagine Project. This guidebook will point the way for the Leadership Team and the Task Force. […]
RE-IMAGINE Professional Learning: Task Force Agendas
RE-IMAGINE Professional Learning outlines three sessions for a task force to re-imagine professional learning in alignment with the congregation’s vision and the innovations currently underway. The first of […]
Text Study: The Motivations of Adult Learners
In this text study, three models of adult learners are presented through the use of a text from the Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 31b) about three individuals whom Hillel […]
Text Study: The Place of Torah in Our Lives
This text study uses two famous, but somewhat contradictory, midrashim on the giving of the Torah (Midrash Tanchuma Yitro and Mekhilta d’Rabi Shimon bar Yohai) as an opportunity […]
Text Study: Rabbi Hiyya and Rabbi Hanina
This text study focuses on a passage from Talmud Bava Metzia 85b, describing a dispute between Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Hiyya about the best way to preserve and […]
Text Study: Extracting the Principle of Kiddush HaShem
This text study includes two texts related to the concept of kiddush haShem (sanctification of God’s name) and hillul haShem (desecration of God’s name): Deuteronomy Rabbah 3:3 and […]