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Rabbi Yael Buechler shares tips for how to create engaging tefilah experiences on Zoom for in-person day school settings.
Contributor: Rabbi Yael Buechler
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, K-2
Type of Resource: Music, Video/Visual
A mindfulness meditation that focuses on 'shema' - listening. This resource was kindly shared by the Foundation for Jewish Camps.
Contributor: Foundation for Jewish Camps
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Music video of Eleh Hamdah Libi (part of the Yedid Nefesh piyut) by Noah Aronson
Contributor: Amanda Brodie
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, K-2
Type of Resource: Music, Video/Visual
Part 2 of 3 workbooks on prayer focused on skills building, meaning making, and includes stories.
Contributor: Torah Aura Productions
Grade(s): 3-5
Type of Resource: Curriculum, Lesson Plan, Story
A source sheet focusing on tefilah as a form of avodah.
Contributor: Abe Katz
Grade(s): 9-12
Type of Resource: Source Sheet
A source sheet focusing on different ideas of what should be the first words to say upon waking.
Contributor: Abe Katz
Grade(s): 9-12
Type of Resource: Source Sheet
Taken from the teacher training chapter of our Reimagining Tefilah Education: Guidelines for Schools this source sheet contains three different approaches to tefilah.
Contributor: Dr. Susan Wall and Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Source Sheet
Taken from the teacher training chapter of our Reimagining Tefilah Education: Guidelines for Schools this lesson/source sheet explores the tensions of keva (fixed structure) versus kavannah (spontaneity) in prayer.
Contributor: Dr Susan Wall and Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan, Source Sheet
Taken from the teacher training chapter of our Reimagining Tefilah Education: Guidelines for Schools this session contains different activities that get students to reflect on their own prayer experiences.
Contributor: Dr Susan Wall and Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Curriculum, Lesson Plan
This resource, through Rabbinics sources, looks at the relationships between structured and spontaneous prayer.
Contributor: Rabbi Steven M. Brown, Ed.D.
Grade(s): 6-8
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan, Source Sheet
Explanation and activities exploring various reasons why a person may pray.
Contributor: Rabbi Steven M. Brown, Ed.D.
Grade(s): 6-8
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Video (3:46 mins) of Dan Nichols' Birkat HaTorah Sweet as Honey song.
Contributor: Lisa Exler
Grade(s): 3-5, K-2
Type of Resource: Music
Video (1:42 mins) of Mah Tovu (Rabbi Shefa Gold melody).
Contributor: Lisa Exler
Grade(s): 3-5, K-2
Type of Resource: Music
Video (1:44 mins) of Modeh Ani sung to the tune of You are My Sunshine.
Contributor: Lisa Exler
Grade(s): 3-5, K-2
Type of Resource: Music
Recordings of tefilah nusach (weekday, Shabbat, Yom tov, High Holidays) from Principal Emeritus of Ramaz, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein.
Contributor: Ramaz
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Music
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring motivations behind prayer.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring the place of Israel in prayer.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum about how to keep prayer fresh and alive.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring the words, actions and feelings of prayer.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring prayers through “mental editing,” “associative reverie” and “prayer beyond the words."
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
The second of Ira Blum's eight part Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring prayer as both a textual liturgical and emotional experience.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
Part of Ira Blum's Moving from Prayer to Praying curriculum exploring what constitutes a meaningful prayer and prayer experience.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Lesson Plan
This learner-centered, inquiry-driven curriculum develops emotional awareness in Jewish prayer education.
Contributor: Ira Blum
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Curriculum
A slideshow of texts and guiding questions about transitions between prayer and non-prayer spaces.
Contributor: Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Video/Visual
Slideshow of Istvan Banyai's Zoom that starts with the eye of a cockerel and zooms out to planet earth.
Contributor: Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Video/Visual
Video (2:40 mins) of Istvan Banyai's Zoom that starts with the eye of a cockerel and zooms out to planet earth.
Contributor: Reuven Margrett
Grade(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Type of Resource: Video/Visual