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All of our classes are guided by a set of Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings. We are most excited by our Essential Questions that guide and complicate our Torah Learning. 

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Each class series has it's own second set of questions and understandings about the specific texts and goals of that teacher, but these guide all of our educational decisions. 

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The Torah Studio • Essential Questions 

• How does Torah fit into our modern lives?

• How do we build a relationship with Torah through community?

• How do we honor texts we disagree with while still honoring our own values?

• How do we build  modern Jewish community with Torah at it’s core?

 

 

The Torah Studio • Enduring Understandings

• Developing a Torah study practice that is true to their needs and identities fills a spiritual need as well as intellectual. 

• Torah interpretation, rooted in a close personal reading of the text, is open to everyone. 

• Torah is a core part of Judaism that one can feel personal ownership over, regardless of how you feel about individual parts of the text. 

• Community meaning, built through hevruta and group discussion, adds to but does not override our personal interpretations of text.