5th Grade Torah Blog

Like an apple tree among the forest trees,
That is my beloved among young men.”
 
The students read this couplet from Song of Songs 982:3) as they continued their discovery of Biblical poetry. They head of the concept of parallelism and metaphor and saw how mood can be expressed by words. Many of the biblical prophets’ words are presented to us in verse, and the students saw how the careful use of such words can present...Read more...

Shalom!

The year started with a look at our Bible: The Tanach, and the class learned that it is made up of three sections: Torah (5 books in all), N’vi-im (Prophets) and K’tuvim (Writings). As our focus this year is N’vi-im, the students “interviewed” three prophets, Samuel, Hosea and Ezekiel, and used the information to create advertisements for an unknown prophet. Then students examined three texts from the Book of Joshua...Read more...