Text Study: Choosing Leaders
This text study focuses on three Torah passages with the theme of selecting or appointing people to assist Moses with specific tasks (Exodus 18:17-23, Numbers 13, and Joshua […]
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Guidebooks, diagram/logic charts, protocols, and text studies.
Text Study: Team Roles and Facilitating Meetings
This text study focuses on Exodus 35, which describes the building of the mishkan (Tabernacle). The discussion questions provided invite participants to reflect on the qualities needed for […]
Text Study: When Does Speech Become Harmful?
This text study explores when speech can become harmful using texts from the Babylonian Talmud (Arakhin 15b-16a), the Bible (Leviticus 19:16, Psalms 34:13-14), and from two modern sources […]
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 […]