Joel Lurie Groshaver's Books

Stories (and informative background information) for almost every prayer in the weekday and Shabbat siddur. Perfect for teachers of prayer, rabbis, cantors, service leaders, junior congregation facilitators, and camp educators looking to infuse worship with a sense of meaning and wonder. Matches perfectly with stories in S'fatai Tiftah, Journeys Through the Siddur, and Pirkei T'filah.

A value story for every letter of the hebrew alphabet. The 24 booklets contain 24 letters and each with a different story about a Jewish value. Shabbat and kindness, faith and tzedakah are among the concepts covered. Target population: preschool-fourth grade students.

Stories and Essays about Gender and Jewish Spirituality.

Describes fifty-two ethical problems from everyday Jewish life and supplies pertinent material for solving them according to Jewish law.

A Child's Garden of Torah Read-Aloud Bible is the perfect way to bring Torah stories to young children. Here are wonderfully retold versions of twenty-five classic Torah stories from the creation of the world to the death of Moses. This volume is an excellent introduction to the biblical heroes you want your children to meet. Use A Child's Garden of Torah Read-Aloud Bible to make Torah stories a centerpiece of your family's Shabbat or bedtime routine.

A practical guide for classroom teachers which includes specific examples of materials coupled with anecdotal material which helps personalize these issues. Topics covered: communication, one-time and ongoing; special needs students and parents; family homework; management strategies; shared problem solving; family education days; and an annotated list of commercial materials.

Textbook with eleven chapters focus on the Jewish holidays from the High Holidays to Shavuot.

S'fatai Tiftah: Mastery & Meaning is a three-volume series designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning. The three volumes take students through the major sections of a Shabbat morning service-from Barekhu through the concluding prayers. S'fatai Tiftah has been designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning and to enable students to successfully achieve four major goals: to perform basic prayers. to develop a generalized understanding. to explore personal meaning. to understand how Hebrew is constructed. Each prayer has: An introduction that sets the prayer's theme and locates it in the service. A drill text and translation that is a source for the unit. Key roots that build a language connection. Practice sounding out keywords and phrases to help build fluency. The opportunity to translate a short portion of the prayer builds a further language connection. A story that offers an insight into the prayer's spiritual meaning.

Ready for a completely new way of teaching Israel artzeinu?

In this Building Jewish Life volume children learn about the story of Hanukkah and its customs. A charming and insightful retelling of the story of the Macabees with its hopeful ending.

This volume of the Talmud with Training Wheels series is a wide-ranging introduction to the Talmud. In a lively and engaging style, it tells the story of Talmud by explaining the origins of this literature, which is based on the oral tradition in Judaism. It goes on to explore the Anatomy of the Talmud. Page, clarifying each element found on a page of Talmud. And it provides basic tools for Talmud study, giving learners crucial insights into how this unique literature works. At the back of the volume, readers will find a helpful lexicon of key Talmudic terms.

This book teaches using the Torah of doing. It starts with age-appropriate translations of the actual biblical text that are presented as scripts. Rather than just reading the text, students perform it. Reading the text out loud is the first movement in interpretation.In twenty-three texts students go from Adam and Eve to the Death of Moses. The Holiness Code, the Burning Bush, the Spies, and Mah Tovu stops on this journey.

This Sugia sits in the middle of a series of passages about monetary fraud. The Talmud pauses to talk about how words (and actions) have the power to shame. Here are the foundational texts for discussions of Shmirat ha-Lashon, the ethics of speech.

Presents schools with a chance to (1) review the meaning and theme of individual prayers, to (2) emphasize the way prayers fit together to form services, and to...

Grades: Pre-K-K Twenty-five individual stories from the Torah. Each story comes with full-color stickers. Beginning with the Creation of the world and ending with Moses' death, the twenty-five A Child's Garden of Torah sticker lessons cover all the major stories.This lesson tells the story of Jacob's two weddings to Leah and Rachel, and the birth of their children.

The Talmudic discussion in this passage (Bava Batra 20b-22a) lays the groundwork for many core principles of Jewish business ethics. The passage delves into both the good side and the dark side of competition--in business as well as in professional relationships. It begins by focusing on zoning practices within courtyards in ancient cities. The discussion evolves into both a history of Jewish education and an examination of the limitations that should be placed on a free-market economy to ensure that competition is fair and just. Talmud with Training Wheels: Courtyards and Classrooms wraps this Talmudic passage in a set of contemporary case studies, moving between ancient and contemporary dilemmas.

Because thirteen-year-old Gabe is mentally disabled and has special needs, his rabbi and family create an unconventional bar mitzvah for him, one centered around the story of Noah's ark.

Zot ha-Torah meshes parashat ha-shavua with a mitzvah of the week found in that parashah. In Zot ha-Torah students 1. study one or two verses of each weekly Torah portion in Hebrew. 2. read verses without vowels in Torah script. 3. study some aspects of their meaning. 4. learn from them a relevant and doable mitzvah. This is a Torah study geared directly to teachable opportunities found in the bar and bat mitzvah year"--

Introduce basics of Jewish holiday observance to young students with concrete concepts and language.

An exploration of how Jewish values influence pedagogy. By using Jewish sources as a foundation, Joel looks at how one creates a classroom based on respect and dignity, that facilitates growth, esteem, and community, and that makes the process of Jewish education an expression of the Jewish message.

Grades: 5-7 Time: Twenty-One one to two hour lessons. Format: 142-page full color book Subjects: Bible and Midrash The class opens their Make a Midrash Out of Me, Volume 1: Genesis to page 35. The teacher assigns the parts of God and Narrator, and asks the rest of the class to read the part of 'People.

My Weekly Sidrah introduces a full cycle of parashat ha-shavua to students in first through second grade. Each parashah includes a introduction, a series of exercises and a quote of the week. The black and white book invites student creativity.

In this 'field guide' we will be looking Torah Aura Productions Hebrew/Prayer curricular resources. We offer a series of interlocking materials that both provide choice of texts for different needs and offer a consistent approach to the mastery of Hebrew and the development of a relationship with the Jewish liturgy. While we will talk more of these materials later, here is a quick introduction.

Grades: 4-7 Circle of Jewish LIfe contains both texts and activities. It enters areas where you need to go, ones that you've never had a resource for before: conversion, adoption, divorce, the meaning of growing old and more. The book is rich in Jewish texts, stories, and opportunities not only to learn the vocabulary of the Jewish lifecycle but to enter into its concepts as well. Make meaning out of the Jewish Life cycle!

Explores the history, significance, and customs of Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur and how the holidays are celebrated in the synagogue. Includes prayers from the Mahzor and discussion questions.

Explores the history, significance, and customs of the Jewish holidays, Sukkot and Simhat Torah.

A how-to for Jewish spirituality that works. "A spiritual seeker is a person whose soul is awake. In this book I make no assumptions about how much you know about Judaism, what holidays you keep, or whether you believe in God. I want us to start from your soul's experience and carry on from there." --from the Introduction "Virtually anyone remotely affiliated with Judaism should read this book," wrote Publishers Weekly, which listed Jewish with Feeling among its Best Religion Books of the Year. "Without question the best, most readable introduction to Reb Zalman's philosophy of Judaism, it is also the best beginner's guide to Jewish spirituality available today," wrote the Forward, "the perfect book for both the spiritual seeker and the curious skeptic." Taking off from basic questions like "Why be Jewish?" and whether the word God still speaks to us today, Reb Zalman lays out a vision for a whole-person Judaism. This is not only Sinai then but Sinai now, a revelation of the Torah inside and all around us. Complete with many practical suggestions to enrich your own Jewish life, Jewish with Feeling is "a mystical masterpiece filled with spiritual practices and an exciting vision of the future" (Spirituality & Health). Spiritual experience, as Reb Zalman shows, repays every effort we make to acquire it.

Explores the history, significance, and customs of Passover and how the holiday is celebrated in the home. Includes discussion questions.

Explores the history, significance, and customs of the Sabbath and how it is celebrated in the home. Includes selections from the liturgy.

Book's by Joel Lurie Groshaver

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