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Teaching Gemara to a beginner to prepare for yeshiva. Goal is basic fluency. Looking for a simple perek/masechet to learn. Thanks!
He's a senior in high school and a very smart, analytical fellow though he lacks some basic textual skills because he's in public school. Going for gap year yeshiva next year and they said he should ...
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Is posting Torah to the internet considered teaching gentiles Torah?
Does the prohibition of teaching Torah to gentiles encompass putting Torah out on the internet for all to see?
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Torah-teaching of Rav Edelstein zt"l: enjoy your learning
I've heard a shiur from Rabbi Daniel Glatstein on the teachings of Rav Gershon Edelstein zt"l in which Rav Edelstein zt"l describes what the obligations of a teacher of Torah should have in ...
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What are Obligations of teachers to their students
What are the obligations of a teacher of the Torah to his students. Or what are the laws that a teacher, rebbe, Rav must follow.
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How many hours a day should we dedicate to spending time with our children vs. learning?
As far as I can tell from experience, common wisdom, common sense and perhaps my Torah learning, it seems quality time spent talking, playing and generally interacting with one's parents is like ...
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Differences in Biblical literalism between different Haredi movements
When interpreting Biblical passages, some are taken absolutely literally (the Exodus), some are advised not to be taken literally (for example the days of the Creation), and some are commanded not to ...
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Teaching Torah to circumcised non-Jews
In his supercommentary to Rashi Genesis 7:2, R. Yissechar Ber Eilenberg cites the following from his teacher R. Mordecha Yaffe:
וטעם שאסור ללמוד תורה לגוי הוא מפני הערלה שבו ויש בו סוד שלא להכניס ...
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Considerations for an Orthodox to teach in Reform/Conservative school
There is a question for an Orthodox Jew to teach Torah in a Reform or Conservative school. What are the two sides of the question?
Does Rav Moshe Feinstein or other poskim in print address it?
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On what halachic grounds can you be compensated for teaching Torah? [duplicate]
The Tanach says:
Buy truth, but do not sell it. [Proverbs 23:23]
Does that mean that a paid Torah teacher is a sinner? Am I abetting sin by hiring him?
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Must we find out for ourselves?
The Talmud Makkot 16a records the following exchange:
א"ר יוחנן אין לנו אלא זאת ועוד אחרת
א"ל ר' אלעזר היכא א"ל לכי תשכח נפק דק ואשכח
R' Yoḥanan said: [There are two mitzvot on this matter:]...
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What is the number one or the most recommended Talmud/Gemara passage for a child to begin studying?
What is the number one or the most recommended Talmud/Gemara passage for a child to begin studying?
I understand that the number one or the most recommended Torah passage for a child to begin ...
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Is it permissible to make money from writing Torah books?
I know that Torah needs to be taught for free (Hilchos Talmud Torah 1.2):
...אסור ללמד תורה בשכר שנאמר ואותי צוה ה' בעת ההיא ללמד אתכם חוקים ומשפטים מה אני בחנם אף אתם בחנם...
And, if not ...
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Would anyone be able to suggest a Torah in audio book format?
This may or may not be an unsual request.
I was interested in finding an audiobook format of the Torah. Basically just the Torah (from beginning to end) being read by a narrator. Would anyone be able ...
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What texts are studied in a traditional yeshiva?
Having never gone to a yeshiva, but having interacted with rabbis and laymen who have, I am unclear on which Jewish texts are studied and which are either not, or which are given a more cursory ...
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Can a man fulfill his mitzvah of Talmud Torah through his sons?
A Jewish man has an obligation to learn Torah.
However, not every Jewish man is capable of learning well. Even if he would quit his job and go to a full time kollel, he wouldn't accomplish that much,...
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How to make Torah learning inspiring
How does one, as a teacher, make Torah learning inspiring for one's students? Advice on what material to teach is appreciated, but more importantly I want to know how to teach it in a way that ...
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What are the "Mishnah" and "Gemara" referenced in Pirkei Avot 5?
At the end of Pirkei Avot 5, we have a statement (of either Ben Hei Hei or R. Yehuda ben Tema --- I have two siddurim with slightly different texts):
He used to say: at five years of age, the study ...
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Sources discussing paying for Torah education
I am looking for sources that discuss the idea of paying tuition money ("schar limud") towards obtaining a Torah education. Topics of interest include: The importance of paying tuition for Torah; ...
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How were girls educated during the Talmudic era?
According to the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society's article on Judaism:
Owing to the primacy of ritual in traditional Judaism, instruction of children focused on the ...
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How does Judaism regard homeschooling?
The title quite says it. I'm specifically more interested in unschooling....
It is said in Ktubot, 50a, that:
אמר רב יצחק באושא התקינו שיהא אדם מתגלגל עם בנו עד שתים עשרה שנה מכאן
ואילך יורד עמו ...
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Where can I find the booklet "Structure of Debate"?
I was in a different shul this past Shabbos when I saw a very interesting booklet of more than 200 pages called "Structure of Debate" by Jonathan Bailey. It's a primer to learning gemara. I tried ...
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At what age should we start teaching the distinction between Midrash and Text?
At a very early age children learn the history of the world and the Jews through the enthralling stories found in many varied sources.
They learn that the world was created in six days; that ...
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