Title: Beshalach Confront Your Fears 

Author: Michael Gluckman

Age group: 7-11

Format: Lesson Plan

Categories/Topics: texts, bible stories, weekly torah portion 

 Description: In this lesson students will think about what it means to be afraid and to confront your fears.  Through a form of charades and discussion as well as text study, the students will be able to connect their own understanding of being afraid to the fear of Nachshon and of the Children of Israel as they wander in the desert and do not know what will confront them.  

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Author: Matt Plen

Age Group: 11 to 14

Format: Lesson Plan

Description: Lesson 2 of Torah Bekiut, a course designed to give students a basic grounding in some of the key Torah texts and to engage students with vital moral, interpersonal and religious issues in order to transform Bible study into a relevant activity and the Torah itself into a source of meaning.

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Title: Chaye Sara Values App

Author: JEN Michael Gluckman

Format: interactive lesson

Categories: 7-11, Bible stories, weekly torah portion, written torah

Description: This lesson plan reviews the story of Chaye Sara and examines the values presented through a creative activity where the participants have to come up with an app to advertise or sell different items found in the Torah portion.  It is an opportunity to engage in an activity and also understand that the the Torah has a deeper message than just the story that is first read.  

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Authors: www.babaganewz.com

Age Group: 11-14, 14-16

Format: Lesson Plan

Description: Students will study a story and texts about the life of Elijah, and through these will examine the concept of geulah (redemption). Students will create Elijah’s cups for their Seder table, using the cups’ surfaces to represent the themes that emerge from discussion of Elijah’s role in the process of redemption.

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