Bnot Torah Institute » chumash http://bnottorah.com Thu, 17 May 2012 16:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Mission Accomplished: The Chumash Paper! http://bnottorah.com/blog/2012/02/21/mission-accomplished-the-chumash-paper/ http://bnottorah.com/blog/2012/02/21/mission-accomplished-the-chumash-paper/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:09:02 +0000 Rabbi Michael Green http://bnottorah.com/?p=1184 After 6 weeks of effort and research, I now look back and feel accomplishment and success like never before! This Chumash Paper was not just any report that was due. Instead, It is something that I will always have and forever keep :-) It's not just what we learned, it's how we've learned to learn and even more than that. It's how we've learned how enjoyable learning really is... To start off, each of us met with our Chumash teacher (who BTW she's really warm and awesome and really gave us sooo much this year I can't even tell you) to choose a Mitzvah or topic from Chumash that really moved us, and that we wanted to understand better. Click “Read More” to read the full description and see all of the slideshow pictures!]]> After 6 weeks of effort and research, I now look back and feel accomplishment and success like never before! This Chumash Paper was not just any report that was due. Instead, It is something that I will always have and forever keep :-) It’s not just what we learned, it’s how we’ve learned to learn and even more than that. It’s how we’ve learned how enjoyable learning really is…

To start off, each of us met with our Chumash teacher (who BTW she’s really warm and awesome and really gave us sooo much this year I can’t even tell you) to choose a Mitzvah or topic from Chumash that really moved us, and that we wanted to understand better.

For the next 6 weeks, we studied the Pesukim and compared what the Meforshim had to say about them. We worked on understanding not only the story or the Mitzvah and the Halachot, but also the meanings behind things.

Plus, Sharfman’s brought in plenty of extra Beit Midrash Tutors to help us find and work through all kind of sources. They were there during Beit Midrash time, during the breaks, and at our Night Beit Midrash sessions. Best of all, the tutor’s were really cute and I felt that they really wanted to help me with all of my questions!

I think that what I got most out of doing the paper was a real appreciation of how relevant the Torah is to us personally and how it really shows us how to live a meaningful life.

Special thanks to our fantastic Chumash Teacher, Mrs. Ariella Gofman who was there for us before and after classes, in the Beit Midrash, at night and whenever we needed her :-)


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