Objectives: Participants will . . . Understand that Torah, as the story of the Jewish people, continues to unfold as each generation adds their own voices and experiences. Name which Torah portion (parasha) the students are assigned for their B-Mitzvah, as well as their responsibilities in the Torah service.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Encounter different ways of relating to God, or a higher power, as Jews and create a self-portrait of their current understanding of God at the start of the B-Mitzvah journey. Explore how language and metaphors used to describe God can affect their understanding…
Objectives: Participants will . . . Examine components of teshuvah and discuss how they might apply in parent-child relationships. Understand an ancient Beit Hillel-Beit Shammai debate about teshuvah and practice mining a traditional text for modern values. Share with their parents or their child how the texts they learned connected to their own lives, setting…
Torah of Raising Up Teens Outline
BALANCE: PHYSICAL: COGNITIVE: 1. Videos on Self-Improvement for men: Why would someone want to have an “operating system” as a friend? What is the humor pointing to?
Posting: Physical: Cognitive: Why Does the Way That We Communicate Matter? What did you notice about the text communication? When did participants pause? When did they use shorthand or slang? What changed when they switched to language? What impact did eye contact have on the conversation?
We live in a culture of extreme partying – popularized by Hollywood’s version of fraternity life and visions of high school. Teen boys are taught that being a man requires taking risks at parties. Some of those risks may seem relatively harmless: smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer, taking a bong hit. Most people take…
In our Jewish lives, we are surrounded by food. The classic Jewish mother urges her son to "eat, eat, eat!" From seders to simchas, shabbat challah to the latke/hamentaschen debate, food permeates our holidays and celebrations. And even Jews who identify solely as "cultural" Jews have their culinary touchstones - bagels, pastrami, felafel, halva... Then…
Goals: For guys to understand the function of stories for men in our culture; For guys to explore facets of storytelling in Jewish tradition; For guys to be inspired to see themselves as the hero of their own story
Goals: For guys to explore and consider the evolving use of particular words in American culture; For guys to become aware of the impact their words have on others; For guys to learn the value Jewish tradition places on the spoken word
