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Summing
up the third NGFP online course
In March-April 2006, during the five weeks preceding Passover,
The Passover Haggadah was offered by Prof.
Avigdor Shinan, professor of Midrash at Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. Participants in the online course included Nahum
Goldmann Fellowship alumni, readers of Jewish Heritage Online
Magazine and of several Jewish educational listserves.
Participants were from the US, the UK, Israel, Guatamala,
Australia, Switzerland, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, England,
Canada, Croatia. Thanks to both the active contributors and
the silent auditors. We will incorporate some of the suggestions
we gleaned from your evaluation forms in future courses.
The five-week course was structured around five passages:
Lesson 1: Ha Lachma Anya – This is
the Bread of Affliction: the Aramaic passage that opens the
Haggadah.
Lesson 2: Verses that call for the destruction
of the enemy “Shefoch Hamatcha” – Pour your
Wrath.
Lesson 3: The group of verses were included
from Sefer Devarim, the book of Deuteronomy: Arami Oved Avi
(My father was a wandering Aramean and so forth).
Lesson 4: Ehad mi Yodea? Who Knows One?
Lesson 5: The famous story of the wise sages
gathered in Bnei Brak
On behalf of those of us who organized the course, the Memorial
Foundation staff, and most certainly in the name of all those
who participated, we want to give a heart-felt thanks to Prof.
Shinan for leading such an illuminating course. Based on the
feedback we have received from both active and silent participants,
he succeeded in making the course interesting, enjoyable and
a true educational experience.
Any other comments or suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
The editorial staff at the Nahum
Goldmann Fellowship Alumni Online Magazine
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