Find your path.

Begin Place our central texts within the story of the Jewish people.

• Our story
• Our books

Begin Distinguish text, translation and commentary; ask a question rooted in the passage.

• Reading a source

Build Prepare, listen, question and review with a chavruta, a study partner.

• Learn with a partner

Build Find your bearings in the Jewish day, week and year; connect learning with community.

• The Jewish day and week
• Months and seasons
• The first month and the new year
• Sukkot: harvest and memory

Begin Decode pointed Hebrew, including final letters and common vowel patterns.

• Your first Hebrew letters
• Read ben and bat
• Read em and im
• Read shem and sham
• Read shalom
• Read Torah
• Read tov
• Read yam and yom
• Read lechem
• Read dag
• Read zahav
• Read kos
• Read am
• Read pe and af
• Tsel and ets
• Read kol
• Read melech
• Read sak
• Hebrew reading quick reference

Build Read short passages accurately, with phrasing and purposeful review.

• Hebrew reading workshop
• Cumulative Hebrew reading workshop
• Hebrew word practice

Build Recognize roots, prefixes, noun forms and basic sentence structure.

• The Hebrew definite article
• A first Hebrew statement: I am Yosef
• A Hebrew description: You are good
• He is a prophet: Follow the pronoun
• A tree of life: Read the description

Build Recognize common verb patterns and follow who is doing what.

• He spoke: Find the verb
• He gave to me: Follow the recipient

Deepen Read narrative, speech and poetry with a dictionary and grammatical tools.

Deepen Read Mishnah and siddur passages; recognize how their language differs.

Deepen Recognize common forms and phrases in Talmudic discussion.

Integrate Read unfamiliar and unpointed passages, justify a translation and identify what still needs checking.

Begin Follow a passage, ask a textual question and work with an attributed commentary.

• Begin with a call
• Read the next passage

Build Trace Torah’s story and study its teachings on covenant, holiness, mitzvot and life in the land.

• God speaks, separates and names
• Lights, creatures and blessing
• In God's image, toward the seventh day
• At the foot of Sinai
• A covenant read and answered

Build Read Israel’s history and prophetic teaching in their literary settings.

• Jonah and the storm
• From the depths
• Nineveh turns
• Should I not care?

Build Explore prayer, wisdom, festival scrolls and the diversity of biblical genres.

• A song for Shabbat
• Planted and flourishing
• Ruth: on the road
• Where you go
• Return at harvest
• In Boaz’s field
• From field to home
• At the threshing floor
• A nearer redeemer
• Witnesses at the gate
• From Ruth to David

Deepen Compare Rashi, Ibn Ezra and Ramban on a question, giving each explanation its due.

Deepen Distinguish a passage’s contextual reading from the questions and methods of midrash.

Integrate Study a book or theme across passages, explain the evidence and present a coherent reading.

Begin Locate a mishnah, identify its teaching and compare a commentator’s explanation.

• Meet the Mishnah
• Your first Mishnah
• Choose your company

Build Separate cases from rulings and identify what the sages agree and disagree about.

• When is the evening Shema?
• When is the morning Shema?
• When you lie down and rise
• Blessings around the Shema
• Remembering the Exodus at night

Build Connect selected tractates to the larger scope of Mishnah and Jewish life.

• What makes a find recognizable?
• The container is part of the case
• When a find was placed
• How a find is announced
• Recognizing the claimant
• Caring for a find
• Keeping a find safe
• Returning property: a source workshop
• A minimum is not the whole measure
• Learning that leads to doing

Build Follow a short sugya, a connected discussion, through questions, answers and evidence.

• Why did the sages say midnight?
• Shema source workshop
• What does “from when” assume?
• When an explanation meets a challenge

Deepen Recognize argument patterns, textual layers and the roles of quoted sources.

• Why use the priests’ time marker?
• One question, another route to an answer

Deepen Compare explanations of a sugya and the difficulties each addresses.

Deepen Study narrative and ethical teaching with attention to literary form and context.

Integrate Prepare a discussion, trace its sources and explain its conclusions and remaining questions.

Begin Understand daily practices, blessings and the questions that arise around them.

• What is a berakhah?
• Blessings before and after
• Food blessings and exceptions
• When a different blessing was said

Build Study preparation, sanctification, rest and the foundations of Shabbat practice.

• Shabbat: remember and keep
• Honor and delight
• Kiddush: sanctifying the day
• Understanding melakhah
• Shabbat and saving life
• Havdalah: marking the distinction
• Prepare Shabbat with your sources

Build Connect each season’s practices with its sources and meaning.

Build Learn food categories, kitchen practice and how to frame a practical question.

Build Study life-cycle practices, family life, communal responsibilities and care for others.

Build Apply careful learning to honesty, property, agreements, speech and responsibility.

Deepen Trace a topic through Rambam, Tur, Shulchan Arukh and later commentary.

Integrate Compare reasoned answers, distinguish law and custom, and prepare a sourced question for a teacher.

Begin Identify daily services and their central landmarks in a siddur.

• Find your way in the siddur

Build Learn short prayers through their Hebrew, meaning and place in the day.

• Open my lips

Build Study their passages, blessings, themes and place in daily prayer.

• The shape of the Amidah
• Hear, O Israel
• With all your heart
• Hear Israel: read the declaration
• Love with all you have
• These words on your heart
• Teach and speak the words
• Signs and doorposts
• Read the first Shema paragraph

Build Follow blessings, psalms, communal responses and Torah reading with understanding.

Deepen Recognize the changes that shape prayer through the week and year.

Deepen Study sources on attentive prayer and compare established forms and customs.

• Hannah’s prayer at Shiloh
• Learning prayer from Hannah
• Before whom you stand

Integrate Prepare a source-based study of a prayer and practice communal participation with a teacher.

Begin Follow the ancestors, Sinai, kingship, prophecy, exile and return.

• A way back to Jerusalem

Build Explore the Temple, Jewish communities and teachers, including Yeshua and the world of the Gospels.

• Altar and foundation
• Torah at the Water Gate

Build Follow the teachers and communities of the Mishnah and the two Talmuds.

• After the Temple
• Teachers at Yavneh
• Gathering the Mishnah
• From Yavneh to Galilee
• Two centers, two Talmuds
• Read a rabbinic history source

Build Explore the Geonim, medieval centers, communities across the diaspora and modern Jewish life.

Deepen Study teachings on God, Torah, Israel, the nations and the hope of redemption.

Deepen Study character, repentance and devotion through ethical and spiritual works.

• Who is wise?
• Returning and repairing

Deepen Read selected passages in their Jewish setting and examine meaningful connections with our literature.

• First be reconciled

Integrate Compare how Jewish thinkers address a question, attending to sources, context and practice.