Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Education Department , 2007 Register at TorahQuest Add your commentary What is TorahQuest? Go to Index of Commentaries Featured Commentaries: Pirkei Avot Text Study During "Omer" Period Between Passover and Shavuot, 2005 A Teacher and a Friend in One Person by Rabbi Fredi Cooper on 1:6 Defining Core Values an Ongoing Project in Jewish Life by Rabbi Jeff Eisenstat on 1:2 Facing the Troubling Texts of Our Tradition by Rabbi Shai Gluskin on 1:5 Chapters of the Parents: Part 1 – From The Back Seat Of The Car by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner on 2:10 Chapters of the Parents: Part 2 – On the Front Porch by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner on 2:9 Chapters of the Parents: Part 3 – Face to Face by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner on 2:4 "Too Busy to Study": An Age-old Excuse by Rabbi Fredi Cooper on 3:21 A Quorum for the Divine Presence? by Rabbi Shawn Zevit on 3:6 All Is There For Seeing, And Choice Is Always A Given by Rabbi Shawn Zevit on 3:15 Knowledge and Wisdom by Rabbi Richard Hirsh on 4:25 Transcendence and Transience by Rabbi Richard Hirsh on 4:14 Ultimate Questions, Tentative Responses by Rabbi Richard Hirsh on 4:19 Human Typologies by Rabbi Steve Segar on 5:11 Reflecting on Mahlokot Leshem Shamayim by Rabbi Steve Segar on 5:20 God as Employer? by Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer on 6:5 Internet Hyperlinking Provides New Way To Promote Old Value by Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer on 6:6 Interactive Torah Study for Exodus Chapter 18 (Parashat Yitro, Shabbat for January 26, 2008). You can use this lesson on-line or print out the pages to use in a classroom. The technique uses basic survey questions, with no right or wrong answers to help people develop their opinions about what is going on in the story. What's Here: Get Caught in a Web of Commentary How to Bring TorahQuest to a Classroom Near You Interactive On-line Torah Study See Photographs of TorahQuest In Action Commentaries from TorahQuest Events Further Resources for Torah Study What is TorahQuest? TorahQuest is an approach to Torah which sees every person as a commentator on the Torah. As a commentator, each participant has a link, through shared endeavor, with Jews of all times who have engaged with Torah. Our mission is to help people of all ages to connect with Torah and create their own responses. TorahQuest is a project of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. Everyone is welcome to use and contribute to torahquest.org. The purpose of this site is to: 1. collect and share Torah widsom in a variety of media from children, adults, novices, scholars, Jews, non-Jews... Go to index of commentary. 2. support teachers, rabbis, and other facilitators in bringing the TorahQuest method to congregations and classrooms. Go to teacher/facilitator supports. Contact us at: sgluskin@jrf.org, 215-782-8500 ext.17. Get Caught in a Web of Commentary Learn from the commentaries; (children, and adults, scholars and novices), have added to our growing web of commentary. Register at TorahQuest. It's quick, free, and required in order to post your commentary. Add your commentary (it can be a short comment, a question, a drawing...) Creating Commentary in Your Classroom Our recipe/lesson outline to implement TorahQuest in your class. Packing List for a TorahQuest Session (MS Word File) Guide to Hevruta Study (MS Word File) Genesis Lesson Ideas Using Commentary from Classical Midrash. Interactive On-line Torah Study. Learn Torah on-line in a way that develops your/your students' opinions about the meaning of the text. Joseph and His Brothers Moses and Jethro Teachers, try printing out these interactive Torah lessons to use in class or at a family education event. View Photographs of TorahQuest In Action South Florida Havurah Studying Moses/Jethro (January 2003) JRF Campers Study the Values of Spiritual Peoplehood Mishkan Shalom (Philadelphia) Students and Parents Create a Living Haggadah Commentaries from TorahQuest Events These are web sites created from the commentaries created at TorahQuest events. Over time we will integrate many of them into our web of commentary. Meanwhile you have access to them here, often accompanied by photographs of the events. Genesis Chapter 4, Cain and Abel, by teachers from Chesapeake Region (January, 2002). Genesis Chapters 25-27, 33, Jacob and Esau, by theOttawa kids from the Ottawa havurah (November, 1999). Exodus Chapters 27:20 - 30:10, Parashat Tetzaveh by Adat Shalom (Bethesda, MD) sixth graders and their families. Leviticus Chapter 10, Parashat Shemini by Reconstructionist rabbis. (March 2003). Leviticus Chapter 24, Parashat Emor by JRF Board and Staff (May, 2003). Esther Chapter 1 by teachers from the Mid Atlantic Region (February, 2002). Web Resources Reconstructionist Divrei Torah Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Web Site MyJewishLearning.com Kolel -- the Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning (in Toronto) Meltonarts.org - Promoting Arts in Jewish Education