Torah+textbooks


 * Manga Midrash
 * I Can Learn Torah -- series
 * The Shabbat Book: A Weekly Guide for the Whole Family
 * Torah Toons: for middle schoolers, a great resource book for teachers (great commentaries, questions), the older version is better and cleaner to use
 * A Child's Garden of Torah by Joel Lurie Grishaver: (Torah Aura Productions)
 * ages 3-6 +
 * makes Torah come alive
 * children should be able to envision themselves in the story
 * [|A Child's Bible]: lessons form the Torah
 * divided by story, not by parsha
 * after each story: what does it mean? what does it teach?
 * activities, thinking questions
 * a good introduction, but not actual Torah study, skips some parts of the Bible
 * moralistic didactic: here's the lesson to take from this story
 * My Weekly Sidrah
 * [|Sedra Scenes]
 * [|Make a Midrash out of Me]
 * Ve'Zot HaTorah: great resource for teachers
 * The Weekly Daf: an Orthodox production for grades 2 - 5?


 * Sefer Aggadah, Book of Legends

__**Commentaries**__
 * JPS Edition
 * Etz Hayim – Rabbinic Assembly/USCJ
 * The Torah: A Modern Commentary (Plaut) – URJ/UAHC Press
 * The Jewish Study Bible
 * Studies in Bereisheet – Nehama Leibowitz (will need a //Chumash// to accompany)
 * The Five Books of Moses – Everett Fox, Translator (mostly translation with minimal commentary)

__**Resources for Further Reading**__:
 * Holtz, Barry, //Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice//
 * Friedman, Richard Elliot, //Who Wrote the Bible// (Biblical Criticism)
 * Brettler, Marc, //How to Read the Bible//
 * Kugel, James, __//[|How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now]//__
 * Alter, Robert, //The Art of Biblical Narrative// (Bible as Narrative)
 * Green, Arthur (Trans.), //Sefat Emet: The Language of Truth// (Chasidic/Spiritual)
 * Zornberg, Aviva, //Genesis: The Beginning of Desire// (Literary)
 * Cohen, Norman, //Self, Struggle and Change// (Personal)
 * Dockser Marcus, Amy, //The View from Nebo// (Historical)

**__Web Resources:__**
 * [|www.myjewishlearning.org]
 * __[|www.aish.org]__ - Conservative
 * __[|www.urj.org]__ – Reform
 * [|www.hebcal.com]
 * [|www.mechon-mamre.org]

__**Text Resources**__
 * Linear Rashi (5 volume set)
 * Nehama Leibowitz: Studies in…Genesis, Exodus (a 6 or 7 volume set)
 * Sefer HaAgada: The Book of Legends (Braude Tanslation)
 * Sefat Emet: The Language of Truth (Art Green translation) – Hasidic
 * The Five Books of Miriam by Ellen Frankl
 * The Bible As It Was – James Kugel (great for contextual orientation)
 * Mikra’ot G’dolot – English version, contains many commentators and Onkelos (the Greek translation)
 * Torah Gems (3 volume set) – Hasidic
 * The Tur – 4 volume set
 * In the Image of God – Judith Antonelli

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