Learning+Targets

**Learning Targets**
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will have:

// Knowledge and simple understanding of:  //
 * the historical context of the Talmud
 * definitions of key terms
 * how key phrases and structures are used within the Talmud
 * how to use Talmudic reference books
 * the basic outline of the page of the Talmud and how to use the resources on the // daf // (page)

Deep Understanding (and Reasoning skill) of:
 * the role which the Talmud plays in our modern Jewish lives
 * specific concepts around the celebration of //Pesach// and other Jewish traditions

// Skills to:  //
 * learn a page of the Talmud
 * use reference material and the resources on the page of the Talmud to help analyze and explain the material in the Talmud

Products (See assessment methods)

// Affective targets:  //
 * Students will value the thought process which exists in the Talmud
 * Students will feel connected to the world of the Talmud
 * Students will feel comfortable talking in the rabbinic parlance
 * Texts: **

Will be provided by the instructor
 * Talmud Pesachim
 * Dictionaries:
 * 1) The Practical Talmudic Dictionary by Frank
 * 2) Dictionary of the Talmud by M. Jastrow
 * 3) // Otzer Rashay Teivot // (dictionary of acronyms)


 * Tanach