Rap activity
Or that time when a friend said ‘don’t worry i got ya b’
3. Tell bout compassion like you rapping and believed it
Like you were once a stranger in egypt who needed it
4. Have you had a homie who was also a chevruta
What did you learn together and was gd learning through ya?
5. Tell me bout the benefits of having equanimity
When turbulence is surfacing can anger be an enemy?
6. Tell me is your house in order what about your country
Have you ever been so scattered that it turns into a dummy/
7. Tell me what ya trust in while your busting ill fly rhymes
Are you trusting in g-d? In your country and Zion?
8. Have you ever paid it forward? have you ever shown gratitude?
Have you ever been appreciated did it change your attitude?
9. Have you ever needed to remind yourself your just ashes and dust.
Has humility also made feel like you should step up?
- Can you tell me what’s a word, whats a name, what a syllable
Is the pen mightier is than the sword can a rhyme be killable?
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Or that time when a friend said ‘don’t worry i got ya b’
3. Tell bout compassion like you rapping and believed it
Like you were once a stranger in egypt who needed it
4. Have you had a homie who was also a chevruta
What did you learn together and was gd learning through ya?
5. Tell me bout the benefits of having equanimity
When turbulence is surfacing can anger be an enemy?
6. Tell me is your house in order what about your country
Have you ever been so scattered that it turns into a dummy/
7. Tell me what ya trust in while your busting ill fly rhymes
Are you trusting in g-d? In your country and Zion?
8. Have you ever paid it forward? have you ever shown gratitude?
Have you ever been appreciated did it change your attitude?
9. Have you ever needed to remind yourself your just ashes and dust.
Has humility also made feel like you should step up?
Wisdom
Source 1: Genesis 2:18-20 18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Rashi: NOT FOUND A HELP Mate FOR HIM ..— When He brought the animals, He brought them before him male and female of each and every kind. Thereupon he said: all these have a mate, but I have no mate! Immediately He caused to fall [an over- powering sleep upon him].
Compassion
1. Bava batra 7b
Mishnah: They may coerce him to share the cost of building a gatehouse and a gate for the joint courtyard.
Gemara: This implies that the building of a gate house is a laudable [good] thing. But wait!
There is a case of a righteous person whom Elijah the Prophet would regularly speak with. He built a gate house for his house, and Elijah no longer spoke with him.
Rashi: For it gates off the poor people who are shouting for money and assistance and their voices are not heard.
2. Be careful not to afflict any living creature, whether animal or bird, and all the more so, one should not afflict a person who is created in the image of the Divine. If you want to hire laborers and you find that they are poor, they should be regarded as poor members of your household, and do not degrade them, for you were commanded to have a respectful manner with them and to pay their wages.
- Sefer HaYirah - Rabbeinu yonah
3. “During New Year services, it was the Grandfather of Shpule’s custom to retire to his room for an hour or two before the blowing of the shofar. Why? To speak to GOD in a language which is not that of prayer books:“Don’t think of man’s sins, I beg of You. Think rather of his good deeds. They are fewer, I agree. But You must admit, they are more precious. Believe me, it isn’t easy to be good in this world. And if I didn’t see with my own two eyes that man, in spite of all obstacles, is capable of kindness, I would not believe it. And so I ask of You: don’t’ be harsh with Your children; rare as it may be, it is their kindness that should surprise You.”
- Souls on Fire, Page 47.
Chevruta
Berakhot 63b
1.Put yourselves into groups (kitot) to occupy yourselves with the Torah, for the Torah can only be acquired in company (Chavurah).
Taanit 7a
Why does the verse teach Iron sharpens iron, as a person sharpens the countenance of his fellow (Proverbs 27:17)? To say to you: “just as this iron [weapon] sharpens the other, so two students of the Wise sharpen one another.”
The Tale of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish (Click)
Equanimity
"Of the 9 middot only Equinimity existed in Eden." - Fow Ti
Genesis 3
(16) And to the woman He said, “I will make most severe Your pangs in childbearing; In pain shall you bear children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” (17) To Adam He said, “Because you did as your wife said and ate of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed be the ground because of you; By toil shall you eat of it All the days of your life: (18) Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you. But your food shall be the grasses of the field; (19) By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground— For from it you were taken. For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” (20) The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.(21) And the LORD God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. (22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!” (23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken. (24) He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4
(1) Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gained a male child with the help of the LORD.” (2) She then bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the soil. (3) In the course of time, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil; (4) and Abel, for his part, brought the choicest of the firstlings of his flock. The LORD paid heed to Abel and his offering, (5) but to Cain and his offering He paid no heed. Cain was much distressed and his face fell. (6) And the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you distressed, And why is your face fallen? (7)Surely, if you do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin couches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be its master.” (8) Cain said to his brother Abel ... and when they were in the field, Cain set upon his brother Abel and killed him. (9) The LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” (10) Then He said, “What have you done? Hark, your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground! (11) Therefore, you shall be more cursed than the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (12) If you till the soil, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall become a ceaseless wanderer on earth.” (13) Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is too great to bear! (14) Since You have banished me this day from the soil, and I must avoid Your presence and become a restless wanderer on earth—anyone who meets me may kill me!” (15) The LORD said to him, “I promise, if anyone kills Cain, sevenfold vengeance shall be taken on him.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone who met him should kill him. (16) Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. (17) Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he then founded a city, and named the city after his son Enoch.
Genesis 3
Midrash Tanhuma
What Cain said to Abel was, "Come and let us divide the world between us." Abel replied, "very well." So Cain said, You take the flocks and I will take the land." And it was agreed between them that the division was final and neither could take what belonged to the other..
Nevertheless, when Abel proceeded to graze the flock, Cain replied, "the land you are grazing on is mine!" Abel replied, "the wool you are wearing is mine!" Cain proceeded to chase Abel until the two grappled. Abel overcame Cain, so that Cain fell underneath him. Cain, aware of how badly it was going for him, began to plead aloud: Abel, my brother, there are only two of us in the world...what are you going to tell our father?
Abel, filled with compassion for his brother, let him go. At once Cain rose up against him and slew him. How did he slay him? Cain took a stone and inflicted many contusions and bruises on Abel's arms and legs, for he did not know what part of the body the soul goes out of, until, when he got to Abel's neck, Abel died.
Order
Trust
Genesis 12:1
(1) The LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:2
(2) I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3
(3) I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.”
Netivot Shalom parshat vayetze
Our Forefathers were each blessed regarding their progeny in a unique way: Avraham was blessed that his children will be as many as the stars f the heavens and the sand of the shores. Isaac was blessed that his children will be plentiful like the stars of the Heavens and Jacob was blessed that his children will be as numerous as the dust of the earth.
These three blessings - Stars, Sand and Dust of the Earth - represent different characteristics of the jewish people. Stars - Everyone has his or her Own light and shines independently. Sand - Each of us alone is just a speck of sand, small and powerless, but when joined together we have the strength to hold back the Oceans.
Earth - When we are unified and hold on to each other we have within us the power to make things grow and flourish.
Ruth 1:1
(16) But Ruth replied, “Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
gratitude
Humility
Bavli Taanit 7ab
The Gemara cites a related incident: This is as the daughter of the Roman emperor said to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya, who was an ugly man: Woe to glorious wisdom such as yours, which is contained in an ugly vessel. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya said to her, in a seemingly unrelated response: Does your father keep his wine
in simple clay vessels? The emperor’s daughter said to him: Rather, in
what, then, should he keep it? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya said to her: You, who are so important, should put it in vessels of gold and silver. The emperor’s daughter went and said this to her father. He put the wine in vessels of gold and silver and it turned sour. When his advisors came and told the emperor that the wine had turned sour, he said to his daughter: Who told you to
do this? His daughter responded: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya. The emperor summoned him and said to him:
Why did you say this to her? RabbiYehoshua ben Ḥananya said to him: Just as she said to me, so I said say to her, to demonstrate to her that fine material is best preserved in the least of vessels. The emperor said to him: But there are handsome people who are learned.
Rabbi Yehoshua replied: Had they been ugly, they would have been even more learned.
2. Bavli Taanit 20
The Sages further taught in praise of the reed: A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar. An incident occurred in which Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, came from Migdal Gedor, from his rabbi’s house, and he was riding on a donkey and strolling on the bank of the river. And he was very happy, and his head was swollen with pride because he had studied much Torah.
He happened upon an exceedingly ugly person, who said to him: Greetings to you, my rabbi, but Rabbi Elazar did not
return his greeting. Instead, Rabbi Elazar said to him: Worthless [reika] person, how ugly is that man. Are all the people of your city as ugly as you? The man said to him: I do not know, but you should go and say to the Craftsman Who made me: How ugly is the vessel you made. When Rabbi Elazar realized that he had sinned and insulted this man merely on account of his appearance, he descended from his donkey and prostrated himself before him, and he said to the man: I have sinned against you; forgive me. The man said to him: I will not forgive you go until you go to the Craftsman Who made me and say: How ugly is the vessel you made.
He walked behind the man, trying to appease him, until they reached Rabbi Elazar’s city. The people of his city came out to greet him, saying to him: Greetings to you, my rabbi, my rabbi, my master, my master. The man said to them: Who are you calling my rabbi, my rabbi? They said to him: To this man, who is walking behind you. He said to them: If this man is a rabbi, may there not be many like him among the Jewish people. They asked him: For
what reason do you say this? He said to them: He did such and such to me. They said to him: Even so, forgive him, as he is a great Torah scholar.
He said to them: For your sakes I forgive him, provided that he accepts upon himself not to become accustomed to behave like this. Immediately, Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, entered the study hall and taught: A person should always be soft like a reed and he should not be stiff like a cedar, as one who is proud like a cedar is likely to sin. And therefore, due to its gentle qualities, the reed merited that a quill is taken from it to write with it a Torah scroll, phylacteries, and mezuzot.
Source 1: Genesis 2:18-20 18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Rashi: NOT FOUND A HELP Mate FOR HIM ..— When He brought the animals, He brought them before him male and female of each and every kind. Thereupon he said: all these have a mate, but I have no mate! Immediately He caused to fall [an over- powering sleep upon him].
Compassion
1. Bava batra 7b
Mishnah: They may coerce him to share the cost of building a gatehouse and a gate for the joint courtyard.
Gemara: This implies that the building of a gate house is a laudable [good] thing. But wait!
There is a case of a righteous person whom Elijah the Prophet would regularly speak with. He built a gate house for his house, and Elijah no longer spoke with him.
Rashi: For it gates off the poor people who are shouting for money and assistance and their voices are not heard.
2. Be careful not to afflict any living creature, whether animal or bird, and all the more so, one should not afflict a person who is created in the image of the Divine. If you want to hire laborers and you find that they are poor, they should be regarded as poor members of your household, and do not degrade them, for you were commanded to have a respectful manner with them and to pay their wages.
- Sefer HaYirah - Rabbeinu yonah
3. “During New Year services, it was the Grandfather of Shpule’s custom to retire to his room for an hour or two before the blowing of the shofar. Why? To speak to GOD in a language which is not that of prayer books:“Don’t think of man’s sins, I beg of You. Think rather of his good deeds. They are fewer, I agree. But You must admit, they are more precious. Believe me, it isn’t easy to be good in this world. And if I didn’t see with my own two eyes that man, in spite of all obstacles, is capable of kindness, I would not believe it. And so I ask of You: don’t’ be harsh with Your children; rare as it may be, it is their kindness that should surprise You.”
- Souls on Fire, Page 47.
Chevruta
Berakhot 63b
1.Put yourselves into groups (kitot) to occupy yourselves with the Torah, for the Torah can only be acquired in company (Chavurah).
Taanit 7a
Why does the verse teach Iron sharpens iron, as a person sharpens the countenance of his fellow (Proverbs 27:17)? To say to you: “just as this iron [weapon] sharpens the other, so two students of the Wise sharpen one another.”
The Tale of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish (Click)
Equanimity
"Of the 9 middot only Equinimity existed in Eden." - Fow Ti
Genesis 3
(16) And to the woman He said, “I will make most severe Your pangs in childbearing; In pain shall you bear children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” (17) To Adam He said, “Because you did as your wife said and ate of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed be the ground because of you; By toil shall you eat of it All the days of your life: (18) Thorns and thistles shall it sprout for you. But your food shall be the grasses of the field; (19) By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground— For from it you were taken. For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” (20) The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.(21) And the LORD God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. (22) And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and bad, what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!” (23) So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken. (24) He drove the man out, and stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4
(1) Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gained a male child with the help of the LORD.” (2) She then bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the soil. (3) In the course of time, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil; (4) and Abel, for his part, brought the choicest of the firstlings of his flock. The LORD paid heed to Abel and his offering, (5) but to Cain and his offering He paid no heed. Cain was much distressed and his face fell. (6) And the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you distressed, And why is your face fallen? (7)Surely, if you do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin couches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be its master.” (8) Cain said to his brother Abel ... and when they were in the field, Cain set upon his brother Abel and killed him. (9) The LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” (10) Then He said, “What have you done? Hark, your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground! (11) Therefore, you shall be more cursed than the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (12) If you till the soil, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall become a ceaseless wanderer on earth.” (13) Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is too great to bear! (14) Since You have banished me this day from the soil, and I must avoid Your presence and become a restless wanderer on earth—anyone who meets me may kill me!” (15) The LORD said to him, “I promise, if anyone kills Cain, sevenfold vengeance shall be taken on him.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone who met him should kill him. (16) Cain left the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. (17) Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he then founded a city, and named the city after his son Enoch.
Genesis 3
Midrash Tanhuma
What Cain said to Abel was, "Come and let us divide the world between us." Abel replied, "very well." So Cain said, You take the flocks and I will take the land." And it was agreed between them that the division was final and neither could take what belonged to the other..
Nevertheless, when Abel proceeded to graze the flock, Cain replied, "the land you are grazing on is mine!" Abel replied, "the wool you are wearing is mine!" Cain proceeded to chase Abel until the two grappled. Abel overcame Cain, so that Cain fell underneath him. Cain, aware of how badly it was going for him, began to plead aloud: Abel, my brother, there are only two of us in the world...what are you going to tell our father?
Abel, filled with compassion for his brother, let him go. At once Cain rose up against him and slew him. How did he slay him? Cain took a stone and inflicted many contusions and bruises on Abel's arms and legs, for he did not know what part of the body the soul goes out of, until, when he got to Abel's neck, Abel died.
Order
Trust
Genesis 12:1
(1) The LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:2
(2) I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3
(3) I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.”
Netivot Shalom parshat vayetze
Our Forefathers were each blessed regarding their progeny in a unique way: Avraham was blessed that his children will be as many as the stars f the heavens and the sand of the shores. Isaac was blessed that his children will be plentiful like the stars of the Heavens and Jacob was blessed that his children will be as numerous as the dust of the earth.
These three blessings - Stars, Sand and Dust of the Earth - represent different characteristics of the jewish people. Stars - Everyone has his or her Own light and shines independently. Sand - Each of us alone is just a speck of sand, small and powerless, but when joined together we have the strength to hold back the Oceans.
Earth - When we are unified and hold on to each other we have within us the power to make things grow and flourish.
Ruth 1:1
(16) But Ruth replied, “Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
gratitude
Humility
Bavli Taanit 7ab
The Gemara cites a related incident: This is as the daughter of the Roman emperor said to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya, who was an ugly man: Woe to glorious wisdom such as yours, which is contained in an ugly vessel. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya said to her, in a seemingly unrelated response: Does your father keep his wine
in simple clay vessels? The emperor’s daughter said to him: Rather, in
what, then, should he keep it? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya said to her: You, who are so important, should put it in vessels of gold and silver. The emperor’s daughter went and said this to her father. He put the wine in vessels of gold and silver and it turned sour. When his advisors came and told the emperor that the wine had turned sour, he said to his daughter: Who told you to
do this? His daughter responded: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya. The emperor summoned him and said to him:
Why did you say this to her? RabbiYehoshua ben Ḥananya said to him: Just as she said to me, so I said say to her, to demonstrate to her that fine material is best preserved in the least of vessels. The emperor said to him: But there are handsome people who are learned.
Rabbi Yehoshua replied: Had they been ugly, they would have been even more learned.
2. Bavli Taanit 20
The Sages further taught in praise of the reed: A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar. An incident occurred in which Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, came from Migdal Gedor, from his rabbi’s house, and he was riding on a donkey and strolling on the bank of the river. And he was very happy, and his head was swollen with pride because he had studied much Torah.
He happened upon an exceedingly ugly person, who said to him: Greetings to you, my rabbi, but Rabbi Elazar did not
return his greeting. Instead, Rabbi Elazar said to him: Worthless [reika] person, how ugly is that man. Are all the people of your city as ugly as you? The man said to him: I do not know, but you should go and say to the Craftsman Who made me: How ugly is the vessel you made. When Rabbi Elazar realized that he had sinned and insulted this man merely on account of his appearance, he descended from his donkey and prostrated himself before him, and he said to the man: I have sinned against you; forgive me. The man said to him: I will not forgive you go until you go to the Craftsman Who made me and say: How ugly is the vessel you made.
He walked behind the man, trying to appease him, until they reached Rabbi Elazar’s city. The people of his city came out to greet him, saying to him: Greetings to you, my rabbi, my rabbi, my master, my master. The man said to them: Who are you calling my rabbi, my rabbi? They said to him: To this man, who is walking behind you. He said to them: If this man is a rabbi, may there not be many like him among the Jewish people. They asked him: For
what reason do you say this? He said to them: He did such and such to me. They said to him: Even so, forgive him, as he is a great Torah scholar.
He said to them: For your sakes I forgive him, provided that he accepts upon himself not to become accustomed to behave like this. Immediately, Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, entered the study hall and taught: A person should always be soft like a reed and he should not be stiff like a cedar, as one who is proud like a cedar is likely to sin. And therefore, due to its gentle qualities, the reed merited that a quill is taken from it to write with it a Torah scroll, phylacteries, and mezuzot.
END OF MIDDOT
I. Wisdom Universal Source Sheet: Jah Man
1. Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Wisdom is concerned not merely with looking, but also with knowing what to overlook Moses Ibn Ezra
3. Wisdom is that whose chief aim is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant _____________________
Winston Churchill
4. Wisdom is that whose function is to discriminate between good and evil _________________
Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. Wisdom is the idea that one is wise when one knows that one does not know. This is often called the “humility theory of wisdom“
_____________________
Socrates
6. Wisdom is contrasted with knowledge in that knowledge is proud that it has learn’d so much while wisdom is humble that it knows no more
_______________
Cowper
7. Wisdom is like fire: a little enlightens, much burns _____________________
Moses Ibn Ezra
8. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it _____________________
Albert Einstein
9. wisdom is such that one ought not be wise in words, but rather wise in deeds __________________
Jewish Proverb
10. wisdom is the awe of God __________________ Abraham Joshua Heschel
11. wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power _____________________
Josh Billings
12. wisdom is that which begins always in knowing oneself _____________________
Aristotle
13. wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life
Hermann Hesse
II. Bible Raps Rapport (Intro to Matt)
III. Torah Discussions group 1 and 2
Source 1: Comparing 10 utterances of creation and 10 commandments.
source 2: Genesis 18Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." 19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.…
Source 3: …Kings 19:11-13 So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the firea sound of a Small still voice. 13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"…
Workshop Winner: Small Still Voice
IV. Rapping Rebbes: redo about words
V. Rap Activity
Play Rap Olympics
Then have them try to say it
(And SAT it.)
Multisyllabic rhyme contest.
Alphabet rap exercise.
Play Rap Olympics
Then have them try to say it
(And SAT it.)
Multisyllabic rhyme contest.
Alphabet rap exercise.
VI. BREAK
Students are invited to IG and see if you get written back at the end.
(ask rapping rebbe a question at Bible Raps or Chai Mitzvah's new bold beautiful Instagram page).
Return: Some students share rap activity productions. (send to us on IG)
Play Bible Rap Tower of Babel video
III. Torah discussion2 (Feather story - should have them make feathers and throw them in a fan)
Source 3: (https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/812861/jewish/A-Pillow-Full-of-Feathers.htm)
In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people. He could not help himself. Whenever he heard a story about somebody he knew, and sometimes about somebody he did not know, he just had to tell it to his friends. Since he was in business, he heard quite a lot of rumors and stories. He loved the attention he got, and was delighted when they laughed because of the way he told his “anecdotes,” which he sometimes embellished with little details he invented to make them funnier and juicier. Other than that, he was really a pleasant, goodhearted man. He kind of knew it was wrong, but . . . it was too tempting, and in any case, most of what he told had really happened, didn’t it? Many of his stories were just innocent and entertaining, weren’t they? One day he found out something really weird (but true) about another businessman in town. Of course he felt compelled to share what he knew with his colleagues, who told it to their friends, who told it to people they knew, who told it to their wives, who spoke with their friends and their neighbors. It went around town, till the unhappy businessman who was the main character in the story heard it. He ran to the rabbi of the town, and wailed and complained that he was ruined! Nobody would like to deal with him after this. His good name and his reputation were gone with the wind. Now this rabbi knew his customers, so to speak, and he decided to summon the man who loved to tell stories. If he was not the one who started them, he might at least know who did. When the nice man with the nasty problem heard from the rabbi how devastated his colleague was, he felt truly sorry. He honestly had not considered it such a big deal to tell this story, because it was true; the rabbi could check it out if he wanted. The rabbi sighed. “True, not true, that really makes no difference! You just cannot tell stories about people. This is all lashon hara, slander, and it’s like murder—you kill a person’s reputation.” He said a lot more, and the man who started the rumor now felt really bad and sorry. “What can I do to make it undone?” he sobbed. “I will do anything you say!” The rabbi looked at him. “Do you have any feather pillows in your house?” “Rabbi, I am not poor; I have a whole bunch of them. But what do you want me to do, sell them?” “No, just bring me one.” The man was mystified, but he returned a bit later to the rabbi’s study with a nice fluffy pillow under his arm. The rabbi opened the window and handed him a knife. “Cut it open!” “But Rabbi, here in your study? It will make a mess!” “Do as I say!” And the man cut the pillow. A cloud of feathers came out. They landed on the chairs and on the bookcase, on the clock, on the cat which jumped after them. They floated over the table and into the teacups, on the rabbi and on the man with the knife, and a lot of them flew out of the window in a big swirling, whirling trail. The rabbi waited ten minutes. Then he ordered the man: “Now bring me back all the feathers, and stuff them back in your pillow. All of them, mind you. Not one may be missing!” The man stared at the rabbi in disbelief. “That is impossible, Rabbi. The ones here is the room I might get, most of them, but the ones that flew out of the window are gone. Rabbi, I can’t do that, you know it!” “Yes,” said the rabbi and nodded gravely, “that is how it is: once a rumor, a gossipy story, a ‘secret,’ leaves your mouth, you do not know where it ends up. It flies on the wings of the wind, and you can never get it back!” He ordered the man to deeply apologize to the person about whom he had spread the rumor; that is difficult and painful, but it was the least he could do. He ordered him to apologize to the people to whom he had told the story, making them accomplices in the nasty lashon hara game, and he ordered him to diligently study the laws concerning lashon hara every day for a year, and then come back to him. That is what the man did. And not only did he study about lashon hara, he talked about the importance of guarding your tongue to all his friends and colleagues. And in the end he became a nice man who overcame a nasty problem.
Source 3: (https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/812861/jewish/A-Pillow-Full-of-Feathers.htm)
In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people. He could not help himself. Whenever he heard a story about somebody he knew, and sometimes about somebody he did not know, he just had to tell it to his friends. Since he was in business, he heard quite a lot of rumors and stories. He loved the attention he got, and was delighted when they laughed because of the way he told his “anecdotes,” which he sometimes embellished with little details he invented to make them funnier and juicier. Other than that, he was really a pleasant, goodhearted man. He kind of knew it was wrong, but . . . it was too tempting, and in any case, most of what he told had really happened, didn’t it? Many of his stories were just innocent and entertaining, weren’t they? One day he found out something really weird (but true) about another businessman in town. Of course he felt compelled to share what he knew with his colleagues, who told it to their friends, who told it to people they knew, who told it to their wives, who spoke with their friends and their neighbors. It went around town, till the unhappy businessman who was the main character in the story heard it. He ran to the rabbi of the town, and wailed and complained that he was ruined! Nobody would like to deal with him after this. His good name and his reputation were gone with the wind. Now this rabbi knew his customers, so to speak, and he decided to summon the man who loved to tell stories. If he was not the one who started them, he might at least know who did. When the nice man with the nasty problem heard from the rabbi how devastated his colleague was, he felt truly sorry. He honestly had not considered it such a big deal to tell this story, because it was true; the rabbi could check it out if he wanted. The rabbi sighed. “True, not true, that really makes no difference! You just cannot tell stories about people. This is all lashon hara, slander, and it’s like murder—you kill a person’s reputation.” He said a lot more, and the man who started the rumor now felt really bad and sorry. “What can I do to make it undone?” he sobbed. “I will do anything you say!” The rabbi looked at him. “Do you have any feather pillows in your house?” “Rabbi, I am not poor; I have a whole bunch of them. But what do you want me to do, sell them?” “No, just bring me one.” The man was mystified, but he returned a bit later to the rabbi’s study with a nice fluffy pillow under his arm. The rabbi opened the window and handed him a knife. “Cut it open!” “But Rabbi, here in your study? It will make a mess!” “Do as I say!” And the man cut the pillow. A cloud of feathers came out. They landed on the chairs and on the bookcase, on the clock, on the cat which jumped after them. They floated over the table and into the teacups, on the rabbi and on the man with the knife, and a lot of them flew out of the window in a big swirling, whirling trail. The rabbi waited ten minutes. Then he ordered the man: “Now bring me back all the feathers, and stuff them back in your pillow. All of them, mind you. Not one may be missing!” The man stared at the rabbi in disbelief. “That is impossible, Rabbi. The ones here is the room I might get, most of them, but the ones that flew out of the window are gone. Rabbi, I can’t do that, you know it!” “Yes,” said the rabbi and nodded gravely, “that is how it is: once a rumor, a gossipy story, a ‘secret,’ leaves your mouth, you do not know where it ends up. It flies on the wings of the wind, and you can never get it back!” He ordered the man to deeply apologize to the person about whom he had spread the rumor; that is difficult and painful, but it was the least he could do. He ordered him to apologize to the people to whom he had told the story, making them accomplices in the nasty lashon hara game, and he ordered him to diligently study the laws concerning lashon hara every day for a year, and then come back to him. That is what the man did. And not only did he study about lashon hara, he talked about the importance of guarding your tongue to all his friends and colleagues. And in the end he became a nice man who overcame a nasty problem.