Prof. Aryeh Wohl was the Educational Director of the Center for Educational Technology (CET-MATACH) in Israel for thirty years. He is the Senior Editor and Senior writer responsible for the Open University of Israel courses on Literacy, taught at Tel Aviv University...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 10,4, 1969. Appears here with permission. Rabbinic prayer, it is often said, is paradigmatic of the halakhic enterprise. Here one finds the creative tension of structure and sponteneity, keva and kavanah, that lies at the...
This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 24, 2, 1989. Appears here with permission. "Though a sharp knife is poised at one's neck, he should not gainsay mercy."1 "[Y]ou cannot do some action, unless you have some idea how to set about it. I cannot even try...
THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PESHAT* By: Uriel Simon Translated by: Edward L. Greenstein This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 23, 2, 1988, pp. 37-38. Appears here with permission. I Like poetry and prose, peshat and derash are not opposites that...
This article originally appeared in Studies in Jewish Education 8 (2002), pp. 53-71. Appears here with permission. In an earlier study, I presented an approach to the teaching of Oral Tradition (OT) literature which varies from existing educational practice in two...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 2, 1, 1987, pp. 10-11. Appears here with permission. We have been charged with the mission of being a “light unto the nations” and, indeed we have held ourselves to a high standard. Jews have always been singled out...
This article originally appeared in Tradition, 19,4, Winter 1981. Reprinted here with permission. Israel hardly seems to be the location from which to launch a critique of the Jewish day school in America. Yet, Israel provides a unique perspective on the subject....
Click here to see related source: https://files.lookstein.org/resource/hagada1.pdf Several years ago, at a Shabbat retreat in Jerusalem of the Bar-Ilan Talmud Department, I presented an addition to the haggada which we had been using in my family for several years....
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS OF YESHIVA STUDENTS By: Larry R. Berkower This article originally appeared in Tradition Volume 14#4, 1974. Reprinted here with permission. INTRODUCTION Any discussion of the subject of emotional problems of Yeshiva students, however constructive and...
This article originally appeared in Tradition Volume 19 #4, 1981. Reprinted here with permission. If being Mayor of New York is the second toughest job in America, teaching Talmud runs a close third. Besides having to present subtle and complex material to students...
