Category : Education

Effective communication is the primary skill of an educator. It is the critical ingredient which determines whether a particular encounter will have a positive or...

  The basic model of chinuch as initiation/inspiration and hadrachah as integration applies on many levels. The interrelationship of these two phases of education is apparent in all areas...

The Torah hints at two forms of communication with God–meditation and prayer–in relating how Jacob blessed his son Joseph: "I have taken this city (Shechem)...

This skill demands that the educator recognize the inner character of his students. He does so by getting to know them, individually, in every way–from...

The most fundamental meditation is the Shema–the quintessential statement of monotheism–which translates into English as "Hear O Israel, God is our God, God is One."This statement is followed by another:...

  The integration phase of education relates to the union with God, who is the "True Nothingness." Since the process of developing our relationship to God...

A Kabbalistic Approach to Spiritual Growth What should the teacher be reinforcing through reward and punishment?  Is it simply "obedience," or is it something deeper?  Chassidic...

This last skill of understanding and properly implementing reward and punishment corresponds to the sefirah of malchut ("kingdom"), which is the realm of manifest reality. When we examined the sefirot of chochmah ("wisdom"), binah ("understanding"),...

A Kabbalistic Approach to Spiritual Growth Now we are ready to look at how the Ba'al Shem Tov's three stages of spiritual growth interface with...

A Kabbalistic Approach to Spiritual Growth What is the source of Abraham's inner strength? How does it actually influence the collective personality of his descendants,...