{"id":227,"date":"2004-09-19T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2005-01-31T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T05:05:52","slug":"ideas-for-teaching-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for teaching liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized during Rosh Hashana services last week that Aviad doesn&#8217;t know half as much as I had assumed that he did about the structure of the Mahzor. The middle of the silent Amida wasn&#8217;t a very helpful time to realize this, but I gave him a whispered overview of Malchuyot Zichronot and Shofarot before the repetition while resolving to do the job properly in the time remaining before his Bar Mitzvah.<\/p>\n<p>So &hellip; I have been trying to think up a lesson plan, and had the idea of approaching it as a system of cycles, something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three times a day: the Amidah\n<ul>\n<li>Sources: the patriarchs vs. the Temple services<\/li>\n<li>Structure and content\n<ul>\n<li>First three blessings<\/li>\n<li>Middle thirteen blessings<\/li>\n<li>Last three blessings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Live example: Minha\n<ul>\n<li>Parshat haTamid and Pitum haKetoret<\/li>\n<li>Ashrei<\/li>\n<li>Kaddish as liturgical punctuation<\/li>\n<li>Amida<\/li>\n<li>Tahanun<\/li>\n<li>Alenu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Twice a day: the Shema\n<ul>\n<li>Sources<\/li>\n<li>Structure and content\n   <\/li>\n<li>Live example: Arvit\n<ul>\n<li>Blessings before the Shema<\/li>\n<li>Shema<\/li>\n<li>Blessings after the Shema<\/li>\n<li>Amida<\/li>\n<li>Alenu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Every Monday and Thursday: weekday Torah reading\n<ul>\n<li>Sources<\/li>\n<li>Live example: Shahrit\n<ul>\n<li>Morning blessings and readings<\/li>\n<li>Pesukei deZimra<\/li>\n<li>Blessings before the Shema<\/li>\n<li>Shema<\/li>\n<li>Blessings after the Shema<\/li>\n<li>Amida<\/li>\n<li>Tahanun<\/li>\n<li>Torah reading<\/li>\n<li>Alenu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once a week: Shabbat\n<ul>\n<li>Shabbat forms of the Amida, including Musaf\n<ul>\n<li>First three blessings<\/li>\n<li>Middle blessing<\/li>\n<li>Last three blessings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other extras\n<ul>\n<li>Kabbalat Shabbat<\/li>\n<li>Expanded Pesukei deZimra<\/li>\n<li>Minha Torah reading<\/li>\n<li>Havdala<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once a month: Rosh Hodesh\n<ul>\n<li>Ya&#8217;ale veyavo<\/li>\n<li>Hallel<\/li>\n<li>Torah reading<\/li>\n<li>Musaf<\/li>\n<li>Birkat haLevana and Kiddush Levana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Four times a year: public fast days\n<ul>\n<li>Selihot<\/li>\n<li>Anenu and Nahem<\/li>\n<li>Torah reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Three times a year: Pilgrim Festivals\n<ul>\n<li>Festival forms of the Amida, including Musaf\n<ul>\n<li>First three blessings<\/li>\n<li>Middle blessing<\/li>\n<li>Last three blessings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other extras\n<ul>\n<li>Hallel<\/li>\n<li>Torah reading<\/li>\n<li>Hosha&#8217;anot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Special festival services\n<ul>\n<li>Seder<\/li>\n<li>Tikkun Leil Shavu&#8217;ot<\/li>\n<li>Tikkun Hosha&#8217;ana Rabba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once a year: High Holidays\n<ul>\n<li>Selihot<\/li>\n<li>Shofar<\/li>\n<li>Rosh haShana Musaf<\/li>\n<li>Yom Kippur Amidot<\/li>\n<li>Ne&#8217;ila<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once a year: Minor Festivals\n<ul>\n<li>Purim and Hanukka\n<ul>\n<li>Al haNissim<\/li>\n<li>Hallel<\/li>\n<li>Megillat Esther<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Others\n<ul>\n<li>Tu biShvat<\/li>\n<li>Lag Ba&#8217;omer<\/li>\n<li>Tu beAv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Every now and then: life-cycle events\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this approach would work for everybody, but I&#8217;m sure it would have worked for me when I was a kid, and I suspect it will work for Aviad too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized during Rosh Hashana services last week that Aviad doesn&#8217;t know half as much as I had assumed that he did about the structure of the Mahzor. 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