TORAH, TORAH, TORAH

For those of you wanting a one word description of what we do in our class every week, I would have to say TORAH. The Torah teaches us the skills we need to be a partner with GOD. We learn Jewish values to help us live a Jewish life from the Torah, and most importantly, the Jewish people live for the Torah. In our core class, we spend quite a bit of time turning and twisting the words in the Torah to help us understand the importance of living a Jewish life in a non-Jewish world. The Torah challenges us to think and to take responsibility for our actions, and no matter how often we study, speak, teach, say, learn, or live Torah, there is always more to explore. We are teaching our students to turn the Torah over and over, in order to better understand the words passed on from generation to generation. The take away every week, is we are created in GOD’s image, and we are here as GOD’s partner. The stories are great, the imagery even better, but most importantly, it is the values we learn from the Torah that really stick with us. 

We use the Chumash as our classroom text, and our students are becoming quite adept at navigating the words in these sacred texts.  These skills came in quite handy when we began to dive deep into the story of Creation on Tuesday afternoon. Students read the beginning of the text, identified the six days of Creation and learned GOD saw all that GOD created as good. However, there was one thing GOD created where HE failed to praise HIS work, but instead blessed it. Please ask you students what they think about being blessed rather than being praised. 

I look forward to volunteering with you and your family during our Fall Fix-Up.  Please be sure to register online for this wonderful community service activity.