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Rav Soloveitchik on the Jewish Family MORE CHOICES F A L L 5 7 7 9 / 2 0 1 8 - 1 9 CONTENTS HOW TO REGISTER .................................................................................................................................... 2 EMUNAH: • Section I: Modern Jewish Thought .............................................................................. 4 • Section II: Classical Jewish Thought ............................................................................. 7 • Section III: Personal Growth ...................................................................................... 11 HISTORY AND SOCIETY ............................................................................................................................ 21 SHANA BET LEADERSHIP PROGRAM .......................................................................................................... 24 TANACH: • Section I: Topics in Tanach ......................................................................................... 25 • Section II: Parshat Ha-Shavu’a ................................................................................... 29 • Section III: Chumash ................................................................................................... 35 • Section IV: Sefarim in Nach ........................................................................................ 37 HALACHAH: • Section I: Contemporary Halachah ............................................................................ 41 • Section II: Classic Topics in Halachah ......................................................................... 44 MIDRASH & TALMUD ............................................................................................................................. 50 BEIT MIDRASH: CHAVRUTOT & CHABUROT ................................................................................................ 52 OUR RAKEZET PROGRAM ......................................................................................................................... 56 MEET OUR ADMINISTRATION & FACULTY .................................................................................................. 57 “MVP”: MORIAH VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 62 HOW TO REGISTER Registration Timeline: new courses. We don’t say “More Choices” for nothing! • Sun Aug 12: we email you a username and password. You log in to make sure they work. • Sun Aug 12: the same day, we also email you this A Little Friendly Advice: semester’s amazing course catalog… which you Carefully read the course descriptions in the are currently reading! catalog; don’t just go by the course names! This • Mon Aug 13: we email you our registration FAQ will save you from signing up for the wrong • Thu Aug 16: we email you the schedule so you can courses just because the names sounded see days & times & plan your schedule interesting. Also, many girls take more than one • Sun Aug 19: registration opens 9:00am Eastern tefilah shiur or more than one parshah shiur, Time: 48 hrs to select your courses & weekly since each one is so different… as the course “Rakezet” meeting descriptions will show you. • Tue Aug 21: registration closes 9:00am Eastern Time Your schedule reflects your unique goals and needs. Make sure to choose what’s right for you. Steps in the Process: Registering along with friends will not produce the right schedule for you and will get in the way On August 12, our registration system emailed you a of your branching out and making new friends... username and password. If you’ve changed your Don’t be the girl who wakes up in December and email address from what you used for your seminary realizes she’s different from her friends and application, please immediately email Ariella at needs her own unique schedule! [email protected] to notify her, since your original email address is where we’ll be sending your After going through the catalog, turn to the username and password. Many of you were using a schedule (we’ll be sending that Thu Aug 16) to school email for college applications and may now be see what day and time each course meets, and using a different email, so please let us know ASAP. If start to make your choices! Remember to check on Sunday Aug 12 you didn’t receive an email with a on the schedule whether your courses meet username and password, please first check your once or twice a week. spam folder; if it’s not there, please email Ariella at [email protected] and she will have one If you’re having trouble deciding between sent to you. conflicting courses, just choose one of them for now and make a note to yourself to remind you Once you receive the email containing your to try the other course too. Once you’ve tried username and password, please immediately test both, you’ll decide which course is best for you. that your login works by going to You’ll have all the way until Mon Oct 8 to make www.midmorechoices.com/students and logging in. switches as often as you like until you get it Please report any difficulties immediately to Ariella perfect. at [email protected]. We’re asking you to test your login info right away so that by the time Make sure to sign up for the number of “CnC” registration officially opens on Aug 19, we will have periods (“Chavrutot & Chaburot,” see the section solved any problems so you can register. (Please in this catalog all about it) that makes sense for bookmark that website on your phone, since you’ll you – enough time to do prep work for your use it to make changes to your schedule once you shiurim, review what you’re learning in your arrive.) While you’re there, please update your courses, do a few “chaburot” with teachers, and personal info. your own independent projects, like parshah. Also on Aug 12, we’ll have emailed you this course And make a plan for what to do in each of your catalog for Fall 5779! Your first step in registering is CnC periods so you don’t just space out… to browse through this amazing catalog, reading the course descriptions, circling everything that looks “Late CnC” at 9:30pm is for the “shtark” and the interesting, being wowed by all of the incredible night owls. If you’re a girl who’s going to step off learning being offered this semester, including many 2 the plane ready to “shteig,” this is where you’ll more than 37 hours, just so you can try out connect with other girls who feel the same! all the courses you’re considering. Then you’ll know which to keep and which to drop. and ,תנ"ך, הלכה Look carefully at your balance of :to see if it’s what you want. • Required courses אמונה o Hilchot Shabbat (with Rav Lerner, Rav Rafi, or At first, you may want to take more than the Rav Eitan) minimum of 37 hours, so you can try out more o Shiur Klali, Monday @ 3pm classes; then, once you’ve decided which courses to keep, you can drop down to fewer hours and Registration Day: schedule some breaks so you don’t burn out. Once registration begins on Sun Aug 19 at 9:00am Eastern Time, you have 48 hours to log in and select Think of your initial schedule as just your “rough your courses. Registration closes Tue Aug 21 at draft” of what to try out first. Naturally, you 9:00am Eastern Time. (Students who are not don’t know the teachers yet, and your goals for financially clear will not be able to register – please the year are still developing. So on Sun Aug 26, contact Ruthie now at [email protected] when courses begin, come with an open mind, to clear up any remaining financial issues.) Log in, ready to make switches. Sometimes girls are just click “Register for Courses,” and select your courses. afraid of changing their schedule, even when they realize it’s not what they want. Make sure When you finish choosing your courses, go back to that doesn’t happen to you! You have until Mon the “Main Page” and click “Reserve Rakezet Slot.” On Oct 8 to switch around freely. that tab, you will see the “Rakezet meeting slots” which are open for you. This is the time you’ll meet We’ll review your registration before you arrive, one-on-one every week with your Rakezet (Faculty and if we really think you’re missing out on Mentor) to learn or schmooze. Each Rakezet will be something, we may recommend you try it out. If making available a number of these time slots, and you try a course we recommend and you don’t the earlier you register, the more choice of slots like it, it’s simple – you just log in and switch. you’ll have. Slots which are already taken by other students will be invisible to you; slots which are still All in all, make sure to put together a schedule open but which conflict with your schedule will which will enable you to achieve the most you appear in grey so that you can decide whether to go can this year. Think frequently about whether to back and change your schedule in order to change your schedule as your goals and learning accommodate a Rakezet slot you prefer. Working level change. your Rakezet meeting into your schedule may mean making some changes to your schedule – yet another This is the year to work on your tefilah and your reason to consider your schedule just a “rough basic knowledge of what’s in the Torah. It’s not draft.” an official “requirement,” but our advice is that everyone should take at least one tefilah class From when you arrive until Mon, Oct 8, you can which helps you understand what you’re saying change your schedule freely as often as you like by and connect with it, and at least one parshah just logging in each night
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