Learn About Tzedakah
for Educators
Moral Development
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Passover: Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat!
Using the introductory quote from the Passover Haggadah, determine what you want students to know and to do, and some ways to begin the process of doing them.
Student Text Study : The Source of Doing TZEDAKAH
A text study for classroom use looking at the source of the Jewish tradition of doing what is just and right.
Teaching the Good People
What do you want your students to know? What do you want your students to know and to do? Here are some models to focus and strengthen tzedakah learning in your class.
Teaching the Good People: WHY?
The power of stories in your classroom and why teaching the stories of the Good People can enhance your student's learning.
Tzedakah and Values - Do Not Put a Stumbling Block Before the Blind
Tzedakah and Values - Do Not Stand Idly By
Tzedakah and Values - Do Not Waste
Tzedakah and Values - Feeding the Hungry
Tzedakah and Values: Honoring the Elderly
This material links a particular Jewish value with the work of various Good People.
Tzedakah and Values: Welcoming the Stranger
This material links a particular Jewish value with the work of various Good People.
Tzedakah: A Habit to Get Into
This material utilizes text about Rabbi Tanchum to teach ways we can incorporate tzedakah into our everyday actions and lives. There are parallel lessons for students and for families.
Tzedakah: Helping to Decide
A tool to help students determine how to distribute funds.
Tzedakah: the Distribution
Ideas for engaging students in distributing their tzedakah funds.
What Would The Rambam Say
How can you and your students plan class celebrations so that they are celebrations of mitzvot, rather than 'celebrations of the belly'? See what the Rambam would say.
