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Guide to Jewish Practice - Educators' Manual
This manual, written by Rabbi Nathan Weiner, will help you use all three volumes of A Guide to Jewish Practice to boost your adult and teen education programming in meaningful ways. It offers flexible formats that are simple to navigate and the pedagogical approach is rooted in values-based decision making.
Potential uses include:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/guide-jewish-practice-educators-manual
Posted on: 2018/04/23 - 12:32pm
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Blood - Aharei Mot DT Dannin
References to blood appear at least sixty-five times in the Torah, and more, depending on how you do the counting and excluding references to menses. In this parashah, it appears primarily in connection with sacrifices (Lev.16:14-15, 16:18-19, 16:27, 17:3-6).
But the more intriguing reference is in Lev. 17:10-14, where we are told:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/blood
Posted on: 2018/04/20 - 1:49pm
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Future Prayer
Isaiah 57:14-58:14
Are these the words for the future prayer not yet in our mahzor, the one all the generations after us will recite?
We heard the prophet say: “Prepare, prepare the road - clear away the stumbling blocks.” But instead, we have built walls across the roads to keep out those we fear.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/future-prayer
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:36am
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Tzara'at and Selfishness DT Metzora Cohen
Parshat Metzora deals with a peculiar condition called tzara’at that afflicts skin, surfaces of walls and clothing. This condition has long been erroneously translated into English as “leprosy.” However, tzara’at is not Hansen’s Disease, the clinical name for leprosy. For starters, the symptoms are not at all similar. Moreover, the rules associated with tzara’at do not make sense if the disease is contagious.https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/tzaraat-and-selfishness
Posted on: 2017/04/24 - 3:03pm
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Making Pesakh Personal study sheet
This study sheet provides a variety of sources on the spiritual practices surrounding Passover (Pesakh).
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/making-pesakh-personal
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 5:33pm
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The Eternal Flame Within Us All - DT Tzav Berger
A Jew walks into a synagogue and looks around. What can s/he expect to see? An area for prayer that includes an ark that contains at least one Torah; perhaps a table, a bima, in front of the ark as a focus area for the prayer service and the Torah reading; and finally, a light, either attached to the top of the ark in some way or hanging from the ceiling.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/eternal-flame-within-us-all
Posted on: 2017/03/28 - 4:06pm
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Filling the Earth with God's Presence
Haftarah Yitro from last week includes words so important they were made part of the service: “Holy, holy, holy! All the earth is filled with the presence of the Lord of Hosts.”
Or it could be, if we made room for that presence.
Making room for God is a task set for us by all of Jewish teaching, and it is one whose details are included in Parashat Mishpatim.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/filling-earth-gods-presence
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:45am
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Blueprint for a Full Jewish Life - DT Terumah Schein
Reprinted by permission of the Cleveland Jewish News.
This d’var Torah is one of a series influenced by the Me’am Loez Sephardic Torah commentary.
If we review briefly the last several parshiot of Exodus, we see an interesting pattern. We began with mythic moments of redemption from slavery and the revelation of the Torah in Bo, Beshalakh, and Yitro. Human beings cannot live without these moments, but living with them only is also impossible.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/blueprint-full-jewish-life
Posted on: 2018/02/09 - 3:35pm
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Kaplan Center resource: Life of Reconstructionist Educators in Digital Age
This short article reflects on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology in Reconstructionist education. The article is attached as a PDF and reproduced below as well. (The PDF contains a printable chart that is not included in the text on this page.)
This resource is part of a package of educational resources on Jewish peoplehood kindly provided by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/life-reconstructionist-educators-digital-age
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 1:43pm
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JOLT Reconstructionist Online Teaching Certificate
This teaching certificate paves the way for you to work in religious schools, Jewish youth groups, junior congregations, and Jewish summer camps
If you’re an 11th or 12th grade student, this program is for you. It aims to train future religious school teachers and leaders for the Reform, Conservative & Reconstructionist movements.
As the oldest pluralistic institution of Jewish higher learning in North America, Gratz College is proud to offer
The Mordecai Kaplan Reconstructionist Teaching Certificate in partnership with Reconstructing Judaism
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/reconstructionist-online-teaching-certificate
Posted on: 2016/07/01 - 11:23am
