B'Ḥol Ot: Shabbat Torah Service

The liturgical curriculum repeats and expands on concepts from the decoding and reading curriculum. It presents tensions in and adaptations to Jewish liturgy, inviting students to engage, struggle with, and internalize core ideas and disagreements from Jewish history and modern Jewish thought. Students will consider different religious ideas as they appear in prayer through excerpts from Torah, Tanakh, and modern thinkers, including:How should we relate to chosen-ness?How do we understand the creation of evil?How did the Torah ancestors relate in different ways to the Divine? What can we learn about our own relationship with the Divine through their stories?Through rigorous engagement with questions raised in liturgy, students will be able to engage from multiple angles and relate them to their lives and the world around them.Introduction to the Shabbat Torah Service covers:A review of Pronominal SuffixesEin KamochaVaYihi BinsoaShema...GadluBirchot HaTorahEtz Chayim Hi