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Teaching Tefillah
First Grade
Learning about Hashem’s Wonders
Adon Olam Asher Yatzar
Second Grade
God longs for the prayer of the righteous. (Yevamos 64a) )
Birkas Hashachar
Third GradeMankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G-d. Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that
is so unthinkable.T.R. Grover, The Ancient World
Shema
Fourth Grade“If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that
Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.”
David Gelernter, Yale University Professor
Baruch She’amar
Fifth Grade
A life of seclusion, devoted only to meditation and prayer, is not Judaism.
Samson Raphael Hirsch, Nineteen Letters
Oz YashirYishtabach
Sixth Grade
Birkas Krias Shema
Seventh GradePrayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin
the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to
overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision. Abraham Joshua Heschel, On Prayer
Aleinu
Eighth GradeWords are the shell, meditation the kernel. Words are the body of
the prayer, and meditation its spirit.Hovos HaLevavos
Shemonei Esreh
Ninth Grade
There is a famous story in which the Kaiser asks Bismarck, “Can you prove the existence of God?”
Bismarck replies, “The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”
Shabbos Teffilos
Tenth Grade
A poor man's prayer breaks through all barriers and storms its way
into the presence of the Almighty. Zohar Bereshis
Davening for others
Eleventh & Twelfth Grade
Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.
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Deeper Meforshim