Tuesdays April 15, 22, 29, 2025
5-7pm Pacific/6-8pm MT/7-9 CT/8-10pm ET
Facilitated by Elior Sterling
*Fairies: Emet Eviatar and Rimon Reches
In the shacharit (morning) prayer service each day there is a blessing for Torah study meant to cover any incidental Torah study that you may do through out the day. Since you must fulfill the mitzvah that you have just blessed after saying the bracha, we then study a piece of Torah right away. In many modern siddurim, the text that comes after the blessing for Torah study is a text with the first words "Eilu d'varim she'ain lehem shiur..."
In this class we will look at that text closely, translate it for ourselves, find the sources of the text, and discuss its meaning and application in our lives. Along the way, you may learn a bit of Hebrew, learn a bit about resources for studying Jewish texts, and you will experience the ancient Jewish tradition of studying text in chevruta (with a study partner).
This free class is presented as Elior's practicum at the completion of SVARA's Pedagogy Chaburah program for Jewish educators. As such, the class will be recorded and shared with the instructors of that program and the recordings will be available to all registered students for later viewing.
*In SVARA style learning, teacher's aides are called "fairies". You can reach out to these folks outside of class time for help with technical issues, translation questions, or conversations about the class and the texts we are studying.