Questions tagged [chinuch-education]
Questions about Jewish education, also known as Chinuch.
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How to answer the simple son?
In the debate over how to respond to a question about leaning during a seder that took up a noticeable amount of time in chat a question was danced around. The debate was mostly centered around how to ...
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Seeking a source for Keruvim as destructive angels vs saintly children
I was wondering if anyone could please help me - I am seeking the source for the following vort:
The Keruvim in Bereishis are described as destructive angles guarding gan eden, but we know them also ...
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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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What is the difference between mida k'negged mida and nekama
Not a kasha, a sincere question. What is the exact reason that mida k'negged mida is not considered revenge?
Issues that may or may not be relevant:
Is it just because it is Hashem doing it?
Does ...
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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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Why does the speaker not attribute to ALL sources?
On 16b of Masechet Avodah Zarah, the gemara recounts a situation in which R' Zeira tells of a fact he learned from R' Yehudah. R' Yehudah learned it from someone important but doesn't recall if it was ...
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Can a Jew encourage non-Jews to convert to other monotheistic religions?
Would it be permissible for a Jew to encourage or help a non-Jew convert from a faith that involves avodah zara to one that does not? For example a Christian (on the notion that Christianity is avodah ...
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At what age does a minor kohen start to recite Birkat Kohanim?
Shulchan Aruch 128:34 rules that a minor kohen performs nesiat kapayim (lit. 'rasing the palms', i.e. reciting the Priestly Blessing) in order to learn and become accustomed to the practice (as long ...
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Educational videos for Books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim?
I seem to recall viewing animated and narrated videos of stories from the Early Prophets, Nevi'im, a few decades ago.
Can anyone recommend any educational and reliably truthful animated and/or well-...
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Would anyone know of good places in the NYC area which teach Biblical Hebrew?
I was not raised with any foundational Hebrew education. Most of the places that I've researched which teach Hebrew are all "Modern Hebrew" (spoken in Israel) courses and not Torah Hebrew (The ...
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Chinuch of shofar blowing
The following is a quote from the Shulchan Aruch:
הלכות ראש השנה-סימן תקצו -
תשלום תקיעות לאחר התפלה, ובו סעיף אחד
א. לאחר תפלה מריעים תרועה גדולה בלא תקיעה. הגה: ויש מקומות נוהגין לחזור ...
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Mission to educate?
Someone told me that Jewish people have, loosely speaking, a mission to be educators by teaching others sciences, religion etc. Are there any sources to back this up? Preferably some quotes?
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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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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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To what extent would the kings of Israel and Judah have been involved in the upbringing and instruction of their children?
To what extent would the kings of Israel and Judah have been involved in the upbringing and instruction of their children? Are there any Biblical references that can help determine this?
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Semichas haparshios between Shemini and Tazria
I have seen a fairly well-known dvar torah numerous times that links the end of the Parshas Shemini with the beginning of Parshas Tazria - but I am trying to find the source of it.
The vort is as ...
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May a girl/women receive voice lessons by a male instructor?
Private one-on-one lessons, not group lessons.
All Halachos of Yichud and Shomer Negiah are being kept to, so I guess the main question that remains is regarding the live Kol Isha (which is being ...
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What do the independent-minded Hebrew letters teach us?
God renames Sarai "Sarah" [Genesis 17:15], removing a yod at the end and replacing it with a heh. Later, the name of Hoshea. Moses' successor, is changed to Joshua, adding a yod. [Numbers ...
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Before the Babylonian Exile of The Kingdom of Yehudah, was there any type of formal schooling in Ancient Israel (Northern and Southern Kingdom)?
Doing research on how educational practices in Ancient Yisrael (both the Northern and Southern Kingdom), I could only find reference to how schooling (formalized) was done post-Babylonian Exile. I ...
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Who comes first, father or teacher?
The Rambam writes [based on Pirkei Avot 4:12, Keritot 28a and other places]:
Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so is he under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher,...
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What are the limits of what we should try to learn?
In the Mishnah, Ben Zoma famously said:
אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם, הַלּוֹמֵד מִכָּל אָדָם -- Who is wise? He who learns from every man. [Avot 4:1]
What does it mean?
(1) That every individual who enters your ...
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Source for guest bed in Sedom as a parable for education
Shalom has quoted R. Yakov Kaminetsky as saying:
R' Yaakov Kaminetsky pointed to the Gemara about the "guest bed" in Sodom, where if you were too short they stretched you; too tall, they cut off ...
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Chinuch in personal hygiene
Are there any sources (from any period in time as long as they come from a respectable source please) that demonstrates the need to educate one's child in the importance of cleanliness and personal ...
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Does Orthodox Judaism endorse or prescribe exercises and acts to help counteract negative influences or inner spiritual issues and conflicts?
I know this question sounds kind of "New Age" in terms of theme but I was genuinely curious if Orthodox Judaism has any figures who endorsed such topics or books which discussed the topic (either in ...
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Father liable for his own hitting?
So a father “gets all the sins” of his son until the son becomes a bar mitzvah, where he is then responsible for his own sins. But if a son below bar mitzvah hits his father, violating a לא תעשה, does ...
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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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Commiting to a group's educational system
In a community where spaces are scarce in educational institutions, may a Jewish institution refuse a child if the parents will not commit to letting the child continue in that group's separate ...
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Range of G-d's educational ways in dealing with disobedience
It is a positive Mitzvah to "emulate G-d's ways" (Rambam Deot, 1). To be a better father to my kids, I'm trying to see what educational methods does G-d exercise in the Torah to His sons when they ...
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