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 and organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah trop - Blessings for all customs and traditions Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only) - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events English texts include: - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 28: 9-15 - Yish'ayah / Isaiah 66: 1-24 - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 7: 42-47 (for Hanukah) - Blessings for reading the Torah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 28: 9-15 (Maftir for Shabbat Rosh Hodesh) - Yish'ayah / Isaiah 66: 1-24 (Haftarah for Shabbat Rosh Hodesh) - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 7: 42-47 (for Hanukah) - Blessings for reading the Torah (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.