by Elliott Michaelson Majs (Author)
Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text written at a teen level - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text - Handy charts & organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah and Haftarah trop - Full Hebrew texts of the weekly Torah & Haftarah - Blessings for all customs and traditions - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin - Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only) - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events English texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 30: 11 to 34: 35 - 1 Melahim / Kings 18: 1-39 - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 19: 1-22 (Shabbat Parah) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 36: 16-38 or 36: 16-36 (Shabbat Parah) - Blessings for reading the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 34: 33-35 (Maftir) - 1 Melahim / Kings 18: 1-39 (Ashkenazi Haftarah) 1 Melahim / Kings 18: 20-39 (Sephardi Haftarah) - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 19: 1-22 (Shabbat Parah) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 36: 16-38 or 36: 16-36 (Shabbat Parah) - Blessings for reading the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative)
Author Biography
Elliott Michaelson is the owner of Adventure Judaism Classroom Solutions. He has been a Jewish educator for more than 20 years in Toronto-area synagogues, overnight camps and youth movements. Elliott has served as the Director of Education at Conservative and Reconstructionist synagogues in Toronto, and has been a Bar/Bat Mitzvah teacher for over a decade. A product of Toronto's Jewish day schools, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Jewish studies from York University and Gratz College, a certificate in Jewish Education, and a certificate in Ritual Direction from the Rabbinical Assembly of Ontario.