Praying With Our Feet: Freeing the Slaves
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Grades 6-8 Praying with Our Feet deals with world issues based on Jewish values and helps students find ways to be part of the solution. Each lesson provides an introduction that roots the subject in Jewish values and thought. The lessons goes on to delve into the background of the issue as seen in the world. Students work on their own to research organizations that provide aid and find ways they can create projects that allow them to contribute to the solution. Praying with Our Feet was written to become the perfect vehicle for Jewish service learning and project-based learning.
The Praying With Our Feet series includes the following materials:
- Praying With Our Feet: Clean Water
- Praying With Our Feet: Feeding the Hungry
- Praying With Our Feet: Freeing the Slaves
- Praying With Our Feet: Ending Homelessness
The Praying With Our Feet: Freeing the Slaves lesson offers students an opportunity to delve into the difficult topic of freeing slaves. The Jewish track record on slavery is not perfect. But, even if Judaism doesn’t show a perfect commitment to freeing captives (matir assurim), there is zero question about Judaism’s commitment to ending slavery today. This lesson challenges students to find solutions to slavery.
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Praying With Our Feet: Freeing the Slaves