9/2/07 19 Elul, 5767 B"H
Welcome! Bruchim HaBaim!
This is an additional way for our parents of 5th grade students to check what your students are studying. We generally have reading and studying homework. The students are required to record their homework everyday before they leave my class. It would be very helpful if you listen to your student read and explain the material covered in class that day, or at least a few times a week. The students are required to read the text, translate into Ivrit Kala (simple Hebrew) where necessary, and then into English. Rashi is a basic commentator on the text, who explains difficulties the student may encounter with the text, and therefore is frequently consulted.
We have covered Shmot, (Exodus), Perek Alef, (Chapter 1), Pesukim, (sentences) Alef through Yud, (1 through 10). Also, Rashi Pesukim Alef, Heh, Zayin, Chet, and Yud. We had a quiz on Friday, August 31 on the material covered so far.
Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi began to codify the oral law at the end of the 2nd century. The oral laws are codified into 6 Sedarim (main divisions), and there are 63 Tractates, or chapters. The Tractate our 5th grade is studying is Avot or Pirkei Avot, (Chapters of the Fathers), or as it is comonly called Ethics of the Fathers, because it records ethical sayings that the Rabbis LIVED.
Avot is the 9th Tractate of Nezikin (Damages), the 4th Order of the Mishna.
Avot consists of 5 chapters. The first 4 chapters contain the wisdom of over 60 teachers of Torah between 300 BCE and Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, about 200 CE.
Your student was asked to memorize the introduction to the first Perek, Kol Yisrael, for Friday, August 24, in Hebrew and English. The quiz did not take place until August 31, and they will be given another opportunity to show their knowledge.
The class received a collection of Parsha tidbits for Parshat Ki Tavo on Friday, August 31, as they will B'EH continue to receive weekly on the current Parsha. They were asked to read and explain the Mitzva from Sefer HaChinuch (the Hebrew paragraph), as well as to attempt the Alef Bet Parsha quiz, and others, and have the parent sign the sheet, to indicate that they had explained the mitzva at your family table.
I look forward to a successful year of studies with your student!
Thanks for taking the time to check the homework blog.
Morah Kay
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TorahLab has just published the first ever translation of Rabbeinu Yonah’s commentary on Avos. The TorahLab team, headed by Rabbi David Sedley, has done a remarkable job at adding a significant contribution to Jewish literature and understanding.
A little about the book and its history.
“There were many great Torah authors and many styles of mussar. Not every author can speak to every soul; there are after all so many different types of souls. The exception to this is Rabbeinu Yonah Girondi (and specifically his book on teshuvah). His writings are appropriate to every Jew in every time.” (Rabbi Chaim of Velozhin as quoted by the Chofetz Chaim])
Rabbeinu Yonah came from Girona, in Catalonia. He lived in the thirteenth century, was a grandson and student of the Ramban and the teacher of the Rashba. He is mentioned several times in the commentary of the Tosafos on the Talmud, referred to there as Rabbi Yonah.
He was also considered the most prominent pupil of Rabbi Shlomoh Min HaHor who was the leader of the opponents of Rambam’s philosophical works. As such, he was one of the signers of the infamous ban proclaimed against the Moreh Nevuchim and the Sefer HaMadda in 1233. According to his pupil, Hillel of Verona, Rabbeinu Yonah felt that these editions were philosophically dangerous to the masses and was the instigator of the public burning of Maimonides’ writings by the church in 1233.
Nine years later, in 1242, twenty-four wagon-loads of the Talmud were burned by the church at the very same place where the philosophical writings of Rambam had been destroyed. Rabbeinu Yonah, realized that he made a mistake and publicly admitted in the synagogue of Montpellier that he had been wrong in all his acts against the works and fame of Maimonides.
In his repentance he vowed to travel to Eretz Yisroel and prostrate himself on the grave of the Rambam and implore his pardon in the presence of ten men for seven consecutive days. He left France with that intention, but was detained, first in Barcelona and later in Toledo. He remained in Toledo, and became one of the great Talmudical teachers of his time.
In all his lectures and in his writings he made a point of quoting from Rambam; always mentioning his name with great reverence. Rabbeinu Yonah’s sudden death from a rare disease was considered by many as a consequence of failure to fulfil his vow to journey to the grave of Rambam. He died in Toledo, Spain in November of 1263.
Rabbeinu Yonah wrote a number of works; it is surmised, to atone for his earlier attacks on Rambam and to emphasize his repentance. His Iggeres HaTeshuvah, Shaarei Teshuvah, and Sefer HaYirah are among the most popular ethical treatises in the Judaic library. The Shaarie Teshuvah first appeared in Fano (1505) with the Sefer HaYirah, while the Iggeres HaTeshuvah was first published in Cracow (1586). All have been reprinted many times, separately and together, as well as numerous extracts from them. Rabbeinu Yonah actually wrote many more treatises which were compiled together and published as Shaarei Tzedek; unfortunately most of these writings have been lost.
Rabbi Akiva Eiger commented that he was particularly moved by the mussar works of Rabbeinu Yonah because aside from being a great ethicist, Rabbeinu Yonah was one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of all time as well as a authority on Jewish law. Rabbi Akiva Eiger viewed Rabbeinu Yonah’s mussar comments as legally binding.
Rabbeinu Yonah on Pirkei Avos, presents this exact blend of his abilities. In contrast to the hundreds of commentaries on Pirkei Avos that use the text of Avos as a springboard for homiletic and ethical preaching, Rabbeinu Yonah explains the simple meaning of each Mishnah. This creates a new possibility for inspiration, where one is struck by the beauty and awesome timelessness of the words of the Sages.
We have a very limited number of copies of Rabbeinu Yonah on Pirkei Avos for sale. I strongly recommend you order yours from Torahlab today.
http://www.torahlab.org/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=601
hi mrs kay
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