Volume 29 Issue 19 25 Jun 2020 3 Tammuz 5780

Ma Koreh

Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary

Year 3 has been busy reading, discussing and learning from the foundation Torah stories in the Book of Genesis. Using their textbook, The Explorer’s Bible and the concept of Torah meaning ‘teaching’, the students have focused on the ethics, values and moral lessons contained within the Torah and reflected in the lives of the Biblical personalities. 

In addition to reading the Torah text, they have also been exposed to traditional midrashim and commentaries to deepen their understanding of the characters and the text. Students have also created their own midrashim (explanations and commentaries on the Torah) to answer questions or to further explain the Torah text. 

After reading the first story of Abram in the Torah (Parasha Lech Lecha) the students realised that no reason or explanation is given for why God chose Abram. So, they wrote their own midrashim to explain why God chose Moses.

 

Below are midrashim by Jemima Hockley and Judd Karro