Teaching Tefillah
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Teaching Tefillah
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First Grade
Learning about Hashem’s Wonders
Adon Olam Asher Yatzar
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Second Grade
God longs for the prayer of the righteous. (Yevamos 64a) )
Birkas Hashachar
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Third GradeMankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G-d. Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that
is so unthinkable.T.R. Grover, The Ancient World
Shema
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Fourth Grade“If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that
Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.”
David Gelernter, Yale University Professor
Baruch She’amar
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Fifth Grade
A life of seclusion, devoted only to meditation and prayer, is not Judaism.
Samson Raphael Hirsch, Nineteen Letters
Oz YashirYishtabach
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Sixth Grade
Birkas Krias Shema
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Seventh GradePrayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin
the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to
overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision. Abraham Joshua Heschel, On Prayer
Aleinu
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Eighth GradeWords are the shell, meditation the kernel. Words are the body of
the prayer, and meditation its spirit.Hovos HaLevavos
Shemonei Esreh
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Ninth Grade
There is a famous story in which the Kaiser asks Bismarck, “Can you prove the existence of God?”
Bismarck replies, “The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”
Shabbos Teffilos
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Tenth Grade
A poor man's prayer breaks through all barriers and storms its way
into the presence of the Almighty. Zohar Bereshis
Davening for others
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Eleventh & Twelfth Grade
Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.
Unknown
Deeper Meforshim