Friday, April 24, 2009

Lessons from the Parsha

Tza'rat - a skin blemish worthy of the dermatologist? Hardly.

Students examined the weekly parsha (this week, there are two) from the perspective of "communication" - how our words can hurt or heal. Evil speech is the cause of the leper's skin malaise. Students studied the sequence of the metzora's joruney back from leprosy through a timeline and group-study of several snapshots from the parsha.

We are laying the groundwork for a min-unit next week called "The Power of our Words," devoted to the laws of lashon hara and dibur yafeh.

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