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Welcome to our two new distance learning programs:
1. The Mechinah / Preparatory Distance Learning Program
2. Continuing Education Program for Ohalah Members
and Klei Kodesh
ALL STUDENTS IN BOTH PROGRAMS MUST BE CURRENT MEMBERS OF ALEPH.
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR OUR FALL MECHINAH COURSE
Hebrew I: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
10 Monday evening sessions: Beginning September 27 and ending December 6
This course is designed to teach you basic biblical Hebrew grammar and vocabulary, and give you practice in reading Hebrew out loud. We’ll study noun forms, prepositions, and simple verb conjugations.
To take this course you need to be able to read Hebrew out loud slowly. You will also be required to write Hebrew, script or block, either by hand or with a computer. If you think you would like to take the course, but don't know if you are either not advanced enough or too advanced, please call me.
TEACHER: RABBI BOB FREEDMAN
609-921-1562 (New Jersey)
The Mechinah / Preparatory Distance Learning Program
If you–
•have initiated a serious inquiry into an ALEPH Ordination Program;
•might be thinking of initiating a serious inquiry into an ALEPH Ordination Program; and/or
•are looking for a higher level of the study of Torah Lishma, Torah for its own sake;
then this program is for you!
General Introduction to the Mechinah Program
There are diverse areas of learning that are required in preparation for entering our ordination programs. The coursework that we offer in our tele/video-conference courses presumes that you have this background.
However there are often too few opportunities to learn this material. This leaves prospective students with difficulty meeting the entrance requirements.
Therefore, we now are now offering a series of short (six-week) teleconference or videoconference courses to meet this need.
There are seven courses in this program, offered on a two year schedule.
They are:
• Introduction to Jewish Renewal and Reb Zalman's Thought: Next Offered in the Winter of 2010
• An Introduction to Reading the Rabbis: Spring of 2010
• Torah in Hebrew I (focus on language and grammar): Next Offered in the Fall of 2010
• The Annual Cycle of Jewish Practice: Next Offered in the Winter of 2011
• The Annual Cycle of Jewish Prayer: Next Offered in the Spring of 2011
• Torah in Hebrew II (focus on parshanut in the four worlds): Next Offered in the Fall of 2011
• Introduction to Jewish Thought: Next Offered in the Spring of 2012
You can take all, one, or just a few, depending on your level of learning in these areas.
Some cantorial and rabbinic pastor students from our programs will also be in these courses from time to time, as some of them will meet requirements of their core program. These courses will bring you into the circle of our teachers and talmidim / students so that you can begin to participate in our chevra while still being in your process of discernment and/or application to the program.
Reb Daniel Siegel for the ALEPH Bet Midrash
Reb Marcia Prager for the ALEPH Ordination Programs
Continuing Education Program for Ohalah Members and Klei Kodesh
The ALEPH Bet Midrash, with the support, encouragement, and co-operation of the Ohalah board, is happy to announce a program of continuing education for Ohalah members. This is something for which we have long seen the need and the ALEPH and Ohalah boards have agreed to deploy the Bet Midrash and its director to make this an immediate priority. This program will include a series of short courses in areas where we identify a need, as well as the production of resources which would be helpful to our members working in local communities.
1. The longer we are out in our respective fields, the more we need to learn about and share the way we respond to the situations we are called upon to face. Practising life cycle ceremonies in class, while absolutely necessary, cannot fully prepare us for the many unusual circumstances with which people present us. Thus, we are planning on a series of courses designed to help us both share our experiences with one another and to learn from vatikim to expand our repertoires and abilities to respond.
2. We all need and hunger for opportunities to simply learn Torah Lishma. Too often, as Rabbi David Hartman once said to me, rabbis learn only in order to teach. In this series, we will offer opportunities to explore texts for the pure joy of learning in a group of like-minded individuals.
3. We hope that these learning opportunities will also produce requests for resources which ALEPH could prepare. At a session in the Fall of 2008,, participants requested a machzor done as an electronic download and/or dvd which would include both niggunim and nusach, and a prototype is now available in time for the Yamim Nora’im.
4. There are Ohalah members who would like to add a second semicha, from ALEPH, to the one they already have.
REMEMBER THAT ALL STUDENTS MUST BE CURRENT MEMBERS OF ALEPH.
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