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Truth or Peace?
Does the tradition prioritize Truth or Peace? If you have to choose between the two, which one wins? Are there times that the winner here (Peace) could nevertheless be overcome by the need for Truth?
Letting Go
This source sheet was designed to stimulate meaningful conversation for college students or adults.
Coronavirus Surveillance vs. Privacy
Privacy seems to be highly valued with a few exceptions
Privacy in the Internet Age
Privacy seems to be highly valued with a few exceptions
Leadership in the Talmud
Which is more important, knowledge or disruption?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why do bad things happen to good people? For that matter, why does anything happen at all? Is there continuous cause and effect? Hasgacha p'ratit? In part this source sheet is inspired by Theodicy Part 2 here: https://kmtt.libsyn.com/category/Theology
Wedding Tisch Songs
Assorted wedding songs for a fun tisch. Hebrew, transliterated and translated.
Diverse Leadership
As we wrap up the construction of the mishkan and the book of Exodus, the Torah seems to go out of its way to emphasize that everyone was included in the project. Men, women, rich, poor, artists, priests, heads of the nation, women who simply knew how to sew. Even two "male interior designers".
The participants are decidedly distinct, but each one has a unique, essential, role. The only ones who get "called out" are the wealthy princes who don't come forward as quickly and generously as they should have.
The sheet ends with a guide to lay leadership.
Leadership
Text about leadership, appropriate for use with high school and above students, lay leaders, boards.
Did we all leave Egypt?
Could it be that 80% or more of the Israelites didn't leave Egypt? Why not? What does this say about Diaspora Jewish communities more generally?
Is God Involved?
Why do bad things happen to good people? For that matter, why does anything happen at all? Is there cause and effect? Hasgacha p'ratit? In part this source sheet is inspired by Theodicy Part 2 here: https://kmtt.libsyn.com/category/Theology