Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples by Susan Handel

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Considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition

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Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and models for reflection on the teacher/student relationship in the Jewish tradition and in contemporary culture with special emphasis on the hevruta mode of Jewish learning, a collaborative process that invites the reader into a dialogue with teachers past and present.Susan Handelman considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition, especially during troubled times. As a commentary on historical and contemporary educational practices, she asks a range of questions about teaching and learning: What is it that teachers do when they teach? How do knowledge, spirituality, and education relate? What might Jewish models of study and commentary say about how we teach and learn today? Handelman not only presents pedagogical issues that remain controversial in today's debates on education but she also brings the stories themselves to life. Through her readings, the stories beckon us to sit among the sages and be their student

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Considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition

Author Biography

Susan Handelman is professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Table of Contents

PrefaceA Note on Translation and Transliteration of HebrewNotes on NotesIntroduction"I Only Want the Piece Which Is in Your Mouth"1. "Torah of the Belly": Rabbi Eliezer Starves for a Teacher2. "The Gates of Wounded Feelings"" Rabbi Eliezer Is Banned3. "Father! Father! Israel's Chariot and Its Horsemen!": The Passing of Rabbi EliezerEpilogueNotes Selected BibliographyIndex

Review

"The book was written to be accessible and its insights, literary and education, are relevant to the many readers of these rabbinic sources, and to teachers and lecturers seeking insight from Jewish sources." -- Pinchas Roth * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *"Her book wonderfully demonstrates the creative interplay between traditional learning and contemporary intellectual freedom . . . Rabbis, and all of us, would do well to internalize Handelman's call to see teaching as not an add-on but a central category of human experience." -- Yehudah Mirsky * Jewish Ideas Daily *"Handelman's book drew me into a world I knew little about, providing a heretofore neglected, but intriguing space for thinking about the teacher-student relationship. . . . That Handelman wrote this book when bombs were exploding throughout Jerusalem – including at the university where she teaches – demonstrates that the teacher-student relationship lives, and may be even more critical, during crises." -- Mitzi J. Smith * Teaching Theology & Religion *

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Considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition

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"The book was written to be accessible and its insights, literary and education, are relevant to the many readers of these rabbinic sources, and to teachers and lecturers seeking insight from Jewish sources.- Pinchas Roth , Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews , September/October 2012

Details ISBN0295991291 Author Susan Handelman Short Title MAKE YOURSELF A TEACHER Pages 176 Publisher University of Washington Press Language English ISBN-10 0295991291 ISBN-13 9780295991290 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint University of Washington Press Subtitle Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Seattle UK Release Date 2011-12-20 AU Release Date 2011-12-20 NZ Release Date 2011-12-20 US Release Date 2011-12-20 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-12-20 DEWEY 296.68 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9780295801780 Series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies We've got this

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