Religion Lesson - What Jews Believe: G-d
I have started using courses on www.chabad.org for our home religious school for our middle schoolers. We just finished their most recent course on prayer taught by Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan. ( Discover the Heart of Prayer ) It was such a successful educational experiment, I decided to use the course by Rabbi Manis Friedman, What Jews Believe , for our second unit. Chabad has an app called Jewish.tv that will stream the videos, but there is some benefit from going to the website, cause there are handouts, discussion questions, and quizzes. I thought I would share some of our discussion topics for these lessons in the event someone comes upon this blog and would like to use these lessons in their Jewish home school. The first lesson is What Jews Believe: G-d. To prepare the kids for this lesson, we talked about the human brain. We talked about how a baby learns to talk. We start by playing naming games with our babies - mama, d...