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Guides to Learning Torah & Torah Commentary

a. Four Worlds Torah Study
b. The Hevruta Approach (Partner Study)

Guide to Leading a Meaningful
Torah Service.
Guide to Creating a D'var Torah. 

Example of a New Midrash &
How to Make a Midrash
 
Bereshit           Genesis

1:1-6:8
Bereishit  Bereishis
Rabbi Shohama Wiener
In the Beginning There was Healing
2:9 Bereishit  Bereishis Rabbi Joyce Reinitz Fruit from the Tree of Life: A Visualization
1:1-6:8 Bereishit  Bereishis Chaya Kaplan Eden: A View from a Westward Window
17:15-16
Lech Lecha
 		 Rabbi Goldie Milgram Sacred Names Matter
6:9-11:32 Noah
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold Being Held
12:1-17:27 Lech Lecha
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener Go to Yourself
18:1-22:24 Vayera  Vayeira
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold Stranger Anxiety
18:1-22:24 Vayera  Vayeira Batya Yisraela I Wasn't about to Put a Pillar of Salt on My Bat Mitzvah Invitation
24:61 Chayei Sarah
 		 Rabbi Jill Hammer Maids of Rebecca
28: 8-9 Toldot   Toldos Rabbi Jill Hammer
 		 Machalat bat Ishmael
25:19 - 28:9 Toldot   Toldos Rabbi Alexis Roberts Destiny Rules
28:10-32:3 Vayeitzei Rabbis Goldie Milgram
& Judy Kummer		 Walking Through Biblical Text with Feminist Eyes
Part I A New Midrash
Part II Classical Texts
Part III Study Questions
28:10-32:3 Vayeitzei Rabbi Shohama Wiener How Awesome Is Now
41:4-44:17  Miketz Rabbi Alexis Roberts Worlds Apart at Hanukkah
41:4-44:17  Miketz Rabbi Shefa Gold Power Within
41:53 - 44:17 Miketz Rabbi Shohama Wiener The Hero and the Addict

Shemot            Exodus
 
1:1-6:1 Shemot
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener And These Are the Names
6:2-9:35 Va-Eyra
 		 Rabbi Alexis Roberts Realizing God in Your Life
6:2-9:35 Va-ayra
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener Finding God's Name
13-17:16
 		 Beshallach Gabby Handler Miriam's Song
13:17:16
Beshallach
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold The Personal Wilderness
18:1-20:23 Yitro Yisro
 		 Tzeitl Locher The Cohen of Midian
18:1-20:23 Yitro   Yisro
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold Sanity Practice
18:1-20:23  Yitro   Yisro
 		 Rabbi Joyce Reinitz
 		 Visualizing
18:1-20:23 Yitro   Yisro
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener A Revelation of Love
25:1 - 27:19 Terumah
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener The Stones of Shoham
21-24 Mishpatim
 		 Rabbi Alexis Roberts Law and Love
30:11-34:35 Ki Tissa Rachel Ellis Fried
 		 Inspired to Lead
34-40 Vayakhel Rabbi Shefa Gold A Heart Unconstrained by Fear
35-40 Vayakhel Pikudei
 		 Rabbi Joyce Reinitz Experiencing the Shabbat Moment: A Visualization
35-40 Vayakheyl-Pikudei
 		 Rabbi Alexis Roberts Building with Our Lives
35:1-40:38 Pikudei
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener A Crown of Holiness
35:1-40:38
Pikudei
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold Opening to Mystery

Vayikra              Leviticus
 
9:1-11:47  Shemini
 		 Rabbi Alexis Roberts Strangers
9:1-11:47  Shemini
 		 Ellen Triebwasser Eating as a Spiritual Practice
12:1-15:33 Tazria
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold After Birth: Separation
12:1-15:33 Tazria - Metzora Rabbi Goldie Milgram Parsha Politics:
Why Tza-ra-at is Not Leprosy
12:1-15:33 Tazria
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener Redeeming the Unredeemable
16:1-18:29  Acharei Mot
 		 Barbara Diamond Goldin My Birthday Parsha
 21-24:23 Emor
 		 Rabbi Shohama Wiener Aunt Sadie & the Challah

Bamidbar            Numbers
4:22 -7:89
Naso
 		 Rabbi Shefa Gold Being True to Yourself
8: 23-26 Behaalotecha  Behaalosecha Rabbi Shohama Wiener Torah: The Mirror on the Wall
19:1 - 22:1 Parah Adumah Rabbi Goldie Milgram Finding Meaning in the Reb Heifer Practice
Numbers 19:1 - 19:22 Parah Rabbi Shohama Wiener Turning Muck into Luck

Devarim             Deuteronomy 
 
1:1-3:22 Devarim Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 The Spiral Journey
3:23-7:11 Va'Etchanan  Vaeschanan Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 Endless Love
7:12-11:25 Ekev Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 You Shall Be Satisfied
21:10-25:19 Ki Teitzei    Ki Teisei Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 The Way of Kindness
26:1 - 29:8 Ki Tavo      Ki Savo Rabbi Shohama Wiener My Mother and Father Were Wandering Arameans
Simchat Torah Simchas Torah
Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 Beginnings and Endings
Ruth Shavuot Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 The Torah of Ruth and Naomi
Shir HaShirim Passover and Shabbat Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 Finding and Keeping Love
Lag B'Omer Lag b'Omer Rabbi Shohama Wiener
 		 The Gift of Light
Ufros Aleynu Bat Mitzvah Talk Frances Age 13 The Shelter of Your Peace
Four Mothers Special Dialogue
Ronya Geller and Rabbi Goldie Milgram
 		 No One Remembers Their Names
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