BROOKLYN, NY — Chabad’s new curriculum is on its way to cracking the Talmudic code for yeshiva students and adult learners. This is part three in a Lubavitch.com series on Chabad's new initiatives in education, social and religious outreach to be launched at the International Conference that formally opens today, at Lubavitch Headquarters in NY.
Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum
BROOKLYN, NY — Chabad’s new curriculum is on its way to cracking the Talmudic code for yeshiva students and adult learners. This is part three in a Lubavitch.com series on Chabad’s new initiatives in education, social and religious outreach to be launched at the International Conference that formally opens today, at Lubavitch Headquarters in NY.
Long the shibboleth separating the serious scholar from the also-rans, the skill needed to decipher a page of Talmud are being arranged into a comprehensiv set of step-by-step lessons by a consortium of Chabad representatives educators and curriculum experts.
Once completed, the curriculum will be the only one of its kind, filling a gap in Jewish education that was discussed as far back as sixteenth century, (namely by Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague). Project director Rabbi Yosef Rosenblum, principal of Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh, recalls when the Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke of the need for a systematic approach to building Talmud skills in a talk in 1985.
“Students have said a page of Talmud looks to them like a bunch of black ants crawling on white paper,” said Rabbi Rosenblum. “If we are looking to create independent learners, we have to improve our success rate in teaching this very tough subject in our schools.”
Taking on a monumental task is a team of educational leaders and one exceptional piece of software. Curriculum expert Rabbi Aharon Fried, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology and education at Stern College for Women, is a leading member of the group. Rabbi Fried took the mystery out of evaluating Hebrew reading ability when he developed the Kriyah Scan, a test of reading used by yeshivas and day schools around the world. Rabbi Meir Fachler and Rabbi Zalman Salamander from Gemara Berura are deeply involved with and supportive of the project. Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Chaim Feurman has been a vocal supporter of the curriculum’s aims.
jr student
is this gemora berura?
Stephen Alexson
Indeed it is.
Bochur
about time!!
mendy
Thank you rabbi nochum Kaplan for this great new project.
john
sounds messianic! literally
The real problem
The only way to understand the gimora is to sit and crack your head with or without these helperbooks and programs something which most people dont like to do.
Chavrusechah
"The only way to understand the gimora is to sit and crack your head with or without these helperbooks and programs something which most people dont like to do."
What!
Do you know that historically Gemara was NEVER taught the way it’s been taught in yeshivah over the past sixty years.
Oh! BTW can you make a laining. O.K. maybe you can.
How about your brothers and /or children. How about the other 35% (low ball figure) of yeshivah students.
Right, their all lazy?
So besides for you and the three other talmidim in yeshivah the rest are just not interested.
You need to rethink your position.