Yudi turns around and makes eye contact with each of them in turn. “Want to be a good teacher? Celebrate each child. Don’t ever think you’re just teaching alef-beis. You’re imprinting each child with the knowledge that he’s as precious as each heilige letter”,Building Blocks,Doesn’t Rabbi Warman see that he’s not just teaching reading? He’s teaching alef-beis
WITNESS TO CREATION He sings it because these are the letters of the creation and when they’ll finally open up the first page of a Chumash and he chants the words Bereishis bara Elokim he’ll pray pray with everything inside him that he too bears witness to a creation
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R abbi Warman hovers at the entrance of Yudi’s classroom and for a moment Yudi’s heart lifts.
“Kinderlach!” Yudi claps his hands together. Moishy stops pulling a Magna-Tile out of Chaim’s hand and looks up. “Kinderlach let’s all stand up for the menahel. That’s the way we show kavod to our special guest.”
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