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Explore new jewish pedagogies

During M² Research Fellowships, each fellow develops a new educational practice that addresses the contemporary challenges in Jewish education. Explore and use them with your learners and colleagues.

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The Language of Intention: A Practical Lexicon of Kabbalistic Prayer

Rav Jeremy Tibbetts

Co-Director and Rabbi
OU-JLIC

To learn the language of intention is to translate mystical Kabbalistic practices into practical, inner-life guidance for your own spiritual experience.

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T’fillah: A Home for the Soul

Rabbi Becca Weintraub

Associate Rabbi
B'nai Jeshurun

To view the siddur as a home for the soul is to use "sticky notes of cleaving" to notice your inner experience and grow through gentle awareness.

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Hitnakdut: A Reflective Practice for Spiritual Preparation Before Leading Prayer

Rory Katz

Children and Family Educator
Chochmat HaLev Synagogue

To use the practice of Hitnakdut is to engage in spiritual preparation that transforms prayer leadership into a shared practice of grounded presence.

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Praying with Playing Cards, Playing with “Praying Cards”

Oren Kaunfer

Madrich Ruchani
JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School

To play with "Praying Cards" is to build a personal, spiritual, and emotional connection to the most essential words in the siddur.

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How to Listen Deeply to the Words of Prayer: אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ

Jessica Kate Meyer

Rosh Tefillah and Artist-in-Residence
Hebrew College

To listen deeply to the words of prayer is to "enter the word" through embodied engagement, making the liturgy a formative spiritual discipline.

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Girsa deYankuta: A Pedagogical Approach to Hazzanut

Isaac Montagu

Freelance educator and hazzan; editor of Sidduré Or

To embrace Girsa deYankuta is to prioritize multivocal listening and group chanting to restore depth and lived continuity to prayer traditions.

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הֲלָכָה חָדְשִׁית:A Pedagogy of Invitation to Playful Praxis

Rabbi Scott Slarskey

Director of Jewish Life
Milton Gottesman Jewish Community School Of The Nation's Capital

To engage in Halakha Chadashit (Monthly Jewish Law) is to accept a playful invitation to physically, intellectually, and emotionally explore embodied prayer practices.

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In Her Image: A Pedagogy for Feminine Prayer and Transforming Community

Rabbi Stacey Blank

Director of Education and Leadership Development
World Union for Progressive Judaism

To incorporate feminine language and theology is to raise awareness of how gender affects our prayer and create more equality in the community.

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T’fillah as a Pedagogy of Embodied Resilience and Sacred Regeneration: Attuning to the Sacred, Life-Giving Rhythm of Expansion and Contraction in Prayer

Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy

Associate Rabbi
Temple Sinai

To attune to the rhythm of expansion and contraction is to cultivate resilience and agency by noticing the living movements within the siddur and yourself.

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