Previews & samples of the educators guide

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JEWISH VALUES & RASHI’S SOURCES

  • 1.1 CHEATING NON-JEWS IS WRONG
  • 2.1 RASHI HELPED THE ORAL LAW FROM DISAPPEARING
  • 3.1 MAINTAINING HUMAN DIGNITY
  • 4.1 AN EAGLE NEVER FLIES INTO ITS YOUNG SUDDENLY
  • 5.1 AN INVALID OATH
  • 6.1 FEAR OF GOD DISPELS ALL OTHER FEARS
  • 7.1 THE ORDER OF BLESSINGS IN THE SUKKAH
  • 8.1 THE BLACKSMITH DIED ON SUKKOT –
    EULOGY OR NO EULOGY?
  • 9.1 ALL LEADERS ARE HUMAN. ALL LEADERS SIN
  • 9.2 DON’T PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK BEFORE THE BLIND
  • 10.1 RASHI’S FIRST COMMENTARY ON THE TORAH
  • 11.1 RASHI WEARS TALIT & TEFILLIN ALL DAY
  • 12.1 DEFENDING CUSTOMS THAT PEOPLE PRACTISED
  • 13.1 IN TEACHING – MAKE YOUR WORDS AS PLEASANT & SWEET AS HONEY
  • 14.1 ALLUSIONS TO THE CRUSADES IN RASHI’S COMMENTARY
  • 14.2 INNOCENT JEWS MURDERED IN THE CRUSADES
  • 15.1 WE LEARN EVEN FROM THOSE WE DISAGREE WITH
  • 16.1 A JEW WHO WAS FORCIBLY BAPTIZED, IS STILL A JEW
  • 17.1 WHAT CAN WE DO IN REACTION TO THE CRUSADES?
  • 17.2 EATING THE SECOND TITHE OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM