Read through the quotations with your grownup and pick your favorite.
What does the text mean?
Does it relate to modern day social justice issues?
Does your text inspire you to get involved?
Does that text give you advice on how you should get involved/what you should do to help?
1. What does it mean to have dignity for someone?
2. Why should the dignity of your student be as precious to you as your reverence for your teacher?
3. Why should our reverence for our teachers be as great as our reverence for God?
1. According to this text, what is our role in the world?
2. How can we improve God's creations?
1. Why are we told to make for ourselves a Rav? How is a Rav different than a colleague?
2. What is the connection between these two and giving all individuals the benefit of the doubt?
1. What does it mean to judge with complete fairness? Why is this such a noble act?
2. Why does this judge become a partner in creation? What does this teach us about the importance of judging people fairly?
1. According to the Rambam, who is a teacher?
2. What is the obligation of a teacher?
3. How does treating your students as your children transform your responsibility to them?
1. According to Ramban, the creation of the world is not completed, but in the continual process of creation. Based on this thinking, what is the role of humanity in building a just and equitable world?
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Everything depends on the person who stands in front of the classroom. The teacher is not an automatic fountain from which intellectual beverages may be obtained. The teacher is either a witness or a stranger. To guide a pupil into the promised land, the teacher must have been there themselves. When asking themselves: Do I stand for what I teach? Do I believe what I say?, the teacher must be able to answer in the affirmative. What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but textpeople. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read: the text that they will never forget. [Edited for gender neutrality]
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1. According to Heschel, what are the most effective means of education?
2. Who is the ideal teacher? Why?
3. What is the goal of education?
What difference does it make to know that the world and heavens were created by G-d?
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Everything depends on the person who stands in front of the classroom. The teacher is not an automatic fountain from which intellectual beverages may be obtained. The teacher is either a witness or a stranger. To guide a pupil into the promised land, the teacher must have been there themselves. When asking themselves: Do I stand for what I teach? Do I believe what I say?, the teacher must be able to answer in the affirmative. What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but textpeople. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read: the text that they will never forget. [Edited for gender neutrality]
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1. According to Heschel, what are the most effective means of education?
2. Who is the ideal teacher? Why?
3. What is the goal of education?
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When God created the first human beings, God led them around all the trees of the Garden of Eden and said: “Look at My works! See how beautiful they are—how excellent! For your sake I created them all. See to it that you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it.” [Translation by AJWS] | בשעה שברא הקב"ה את אדם הראשון נטלו והחזירו על כל אילני גן עדן ואמר לו ראה מעשי כמה נאים ומשובחין הן וכל מה שבראתי בשבילך בראתי, תן דעתך שלא תקלקל ותחריב את עולמי, שאם קלקלת אין מי שיתקן אחריך |
1. What does this text teach us about the earth?
2. What is our responsibility to the environment? What is God's responsibility to the environment?
3. Have humans heeded God’s warning? Who will repair our mistakes?