Stories We Live By: The Mitzvah of Not Saying
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- UPC
Grades 4-7 The Stories We Live By lessons use Jewish folktales and Rabbinic stories to teach important Jewish values. Each lesson tells a story and offers probing questions and text study for students to consider. Twelve Stories We Live By lessons are available.
Stories We Live By Lessons:
- The Bride’s Hairpin
- The Feather Story
- Honest Scales
- Kamtza and Bar Kamtza
- The Mitzvah of Not Saying
- The New Tongue
- One Date Seed
- The Rabbi and the Ugly Man
- The Rich Man’s Son
- The Two Friends
- Unworthy Human Beings
- Why the Rabbi Rode on Yom Kippur
- Stories We Live By Teacher’s Guide
The Stories We Live By: The Mitzvah of Not Saying lesson offers students an opportunity to understand the importance of the Jewish value of tokhehah (giving rebuke) as they read about a rabbi who refuses to speak. In the story of Rabbi Yisrael of Vinitz comes to visit a banker and sits silently. Over the visit, he manipulates a banker into finally hearing and reflecting on a request he probably would have ignored if the rabbi came to him directly.
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Stories We Live By: The Mitzvah of Not Saying