Answer Key for B'Ḥol Ot

<p>This is the answer key for <em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>B'Ḥol Ot: </em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Introduction to the Shabbat Morning Service.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>B'Ḥol Ot</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> is a liturgical Hebrew curriculum. It honors the diversity of Jewish practice offers gender-expansive language for liturgy and Nonbinary Hebrew adaptations and emphasizes Hebrew as a rich and holy language: the language of the Torah and of most of our blessings and prayers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The liturgical curriculum repeats and expands on concepts from the decoding and reading curriculum. It presents problems in and adaptations to Jewish liturgy inviting students to engage and struggle with core ideas and disagreements from Jewish history and modern Jewish thought. For example students will consider the idea of chosen-ness as it appears in prayer through excerpts from Torah Tanakh and modern thinkers some of whom challenged and some of whom affirmed and others who modified the idea of Jews as a chosen people. Students will consider the questions:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Did God choose the Jewish people or did the Jewish people choose God and Torah?</span></li><li><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Chosen for what</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>? Or what are the special obligations and responsibilities that come with chosen-ness?</span></li></ul><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Students will also consider what it means to pray for a return to or a rebuilding of Jerusalem:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Are we making physical requests or is this request part of a spiritual plea?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>What is the relationship between modern political ideas and ancient spiritual yearnings?</span></li></ul>