847-331-3584 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 847-331-3584 end_of_the_skype_highlighting PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS 1. Complete application form. 2. Purchase books; pay tuition 3. Complete all 16 Sessions · Complete all assigned readings · Watch videos · Complete memory work · Email terms with completed definitions for each session · Study values for each session · Demonstrate familiarity with all assigned materials 4. After completing all sessions write a final essay as assigned. 5. Return completed answers to “100 Questions.”-there are videos to help 6. Each week during your process, find on the Jewish calendar and try and read the weekly Torah reading ( Parsha) and commentary in the provided Etz Chayim Chumash. Optional-Return brief reports to 3 Parshaot over the course of your study process. Watch D’var Torah video for the week’s reading, which you can find at: om/ (It will be the first one there that week). 7. Have conversations with us as needed. 8. Demonstrate a commitment to Jewish living and religious practice as reflected by Declaration of Faith below. 9. Commit to learn basic Hebrew reading. 10. Appear before a Beit Din (rabbinical tribunal) at which time you will be asked the following questions, among others: - Do you choose to enter the eternal covenant between God and the people Israel and to become a Jew of your own free will?
- Do you accept Judaism to the exclusion of all other religious faiths and practices?
- Do you pledge your loyalty to Judaism and to the Jewish people under all circumstances?
- Do you promise to establish a Jewish home, and to participate actively in the synagogue and the Jewish community?
- Do you commit yourself to the pursuit of Torah and Jewish knowledge?
- If you should be blessed with children, do you promise to raise them as Jews?
11. Males will require circumcision. If already circumcised, a ritual circumcision is required. Males and females will require immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath).
12. Read and sign the declaration of Faith. 13. Pick out a Hebrew name. For legal/spiritual purposes your parents will be Abraham and Sarah.
We will send a box of books and a cd, and email the entire program of study. Also: - We’ll send a digital Shabbat morning learner’s prayer book and the videos you need to learn the prayers if you desire. This is related to session 5 of the course but is optional.
- We’ll send a digital series of Passover songs and the video links to learn the songs
- We’ll send video links for the Hebrew alphabet, and some vocabulary to get you started in Hebrew.
With each set of terms returned and defined, please cut and paste this form and send it back once you have completed each step: I have completed all the readings for this session, read over the values, worked on memorization of the requested items, watched all the videos (except for session 5 which are optional except for set a.) Here are the terms defined for the session:
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When you sign up and receive our files by email, this explanation will help:
LDL is Long Distance Learning
LMS is Learner's Minyon Siddur. The digital siddur has page numbers. The videos on that page have LMS with a page number corresponding to the page in the digital siddur to which the video prayers corresponds. This part is optional but helpful for your learning the Shabbat morning prayers. Many of them are used at other times in worship also.
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