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Discussion Plan: Starting Something and Keeping it Going – PS

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Discussion Plan: Starting Something and Keeping it Going

Is there a difference between these things, if so, what is the difference?

  • Setting a rule that says “do not enter the room without knocking”
  • Remembering to keep the rule that says “do not enter the room without knocking”
  • Starting a friendship
  • Keeping that person as a friend
  • Earning a name for being fair
  • Remembering to always be fair
  • Keeping a name for being fair once you have it

What is the difference between…

  • Putting a sign on the door to show visitors that they shouldn’t enter without knocking.
  • Putting a sign on the door to remind visitors that they shouldn’t enter without knocking.
  • Putting a sign on the door to remind yourself that you shouldn’t let visitors in unless they have knocked on the door first.

Discussion Plan: Running from, Running to – UPS, MS

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Discussion Plan: Running from, Running to

  1. When you run away, do your problems run with you?
  2. Is it possible to run away without leaving home?
  3. Is hiding from someone a kind of ‘running away’?
  4. If people know where you are going, are you still running away?
  5. Do we ever have a duty to run away?
  6. If you are running away from something, are you always running to something else?
  7. If you are running to something, are you always running away from something else?
  8. If you see a friend or child and run toward them, are you running from anything?
  9. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be a sensible thing to do? (if so, what might they be?)
  10. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be a brave thing to do? (if so, when might that be?)
  11. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be the wrong thing to do?
  12. Can someone else decide for you that you should run away, or is it only something you can decide for yourself? Why? Why not?

Discussion Plan: Running from, Running to – HS, A

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Discussion Plan: Running from, Running to

  1. When you run away, do your problems run with you?
  2. Is it possible to run away without leaving home?
  3. Is hiding from someone a kind of ‘running away’?
  4. If people know where you are going, are you still running away?
  5. Do we ever have a duty to run away?
  6. Can you ‘run away’ from where you are without moving at all?
  7. Can you ‘go toward’ something without moving at all?
  8. If you are running away from something, are you always running to something else?
  9. If you are running to something, are you always running away from something else?
  10. If you see a friend and run toward them, are you running from anything?
  11. If a parent sees their child and runs toward him/her, are they running from anything?
  12. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be a sensible thing to do? (if so, what might they be?)
  13. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be a brave thing to do? (if so, when might that be?)
  14. Can you think of some circumstances when running away would be the wrong thing to do?
  15. Can someone else decide for you that you should run away, or is it only something you can decide for yourself? Why? Why not?

Activity: Interview about what we eat – PS

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Activity: Interview about what we eat

Interview two people in your family or community about the following:

  1. Is there any kind of food that you personally choose not to eat? Why not?
  2. Do you think that what you eat affects your health?
  3. Do you think that what you eat affects your mood?
  4. Is there anything you can know about a person from looking at what they eat?
  5. Do you eat meat? Why or why not?

Discussion Plan: The connection between who we are and what we eat – UPS, MS, HS

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Discussion Plan: The connection between who we are and what we eat

  1. If a person likes rare or raw meat, do you think they are likely to be more aggressive than someone who likes their meat well done? Why / Why not?
  2. If a person likes sweet things, do you think they are likely to have a sweet nature? Why / why not?
  3. Is there such a thing as ‘comfort food’? What does this mean?
  4. Is there such a thing as “Junk food”? What does this mean and why do we eat it?
  5. Is there such a thing as “soul food”? What does this mean?
  6. Do you think that what you eat affects your health? If so, give some examples.
  7. Do you think that what you eat affects your mood? If so, give some examples.
  8. If you eat healthy food are you likely to be more healthy? Why / why not?
  9. In what ways is what we eat connected to our culture?
  10. Do you think that someone who eats according to the practices of their culture has a stronger cultural identity than someone who does not? Why/why not?

Discussion Plan: Deciding what we eat – LPS

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Discussion Plan: Deciding what we eat

  1. Is there any kind of food that you personally choose not to eat? Why?
  2. If there are foods you like to eat, why do you like them?
  3. If there are foods you don’t like to eat, why don’t you like them?
  4. Can the look of food make it more desirable or less desirable?
  5. Do you eat the same things now as you did when you were a baby?
  6. Do you think that what you eat affects your health?
  7. Do you think that what you eat affects your mood?
  8. Is there anything you can know about a person from looking at what they eat?
  9. Do you think that what you eat or don’t eat can make you a better person?

Discussion Plan: Deciding what we eat -UPS, MS, HS, A

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Discussion Plan: Deciding what we eat

  1. Is there any kind of food that you personally choose not to eat? Why?
  2. What makes certain foods attractive to you – such that you want to eat them?
  3. What makes certain foods unattractive to you – such that you don’t want to eat them?
  4. Do you eat the same range of food now as you did 5 years ago?
  5. Do you eat the same range of food now as you did when you were a baby?
  6. Can people’s diets change, even when they are adults? Can you give an example?
  7. Can you look at what someone eats and draw any conclusion about their values?
  8. Do you think that what you eat or don’t eat can make you a better person?

Discussion Plan: Deciding what we should eat – UPS, MS, HS

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Discussion Plan: Deciding what we should eat

  1. Do you think parents should control what food their two year old child eats?
  2. Do you think your family should control what kinds of food you eat?
  3. Are there food you can eat too much of?
  4. Are there foods you can eat too little of?
  5. Are their kinds of food that it is hard to stop eating once you start?
  6. Are there animals you don’t think we should eat because it is wrong to kill them?
  7. If you raise an animal and look after it – would it be wrong to eat it? (Would this be the same if you lived on a farm?)
  8. In many ways, animals are like people – is that a reason not to kill them?
  9. Think of eating an animal’s eye – yuk! Why does this sound gross?
  10. Are there foods (like sushi, pizza, falafel, gefilta fish) that you associate with certain countries or cultures?
  11. How much do you think that your own culture decides what it is possible for you to eat?

Secondary Sources: Caring for Animals – PS, MS

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Secondary Source: Caring for Animals

What does the way we care for animals say about us?

Proverbs 12:10  מִשְׁלֵי

יוֹדֵעַ צַדִּיק נֶפֶשׁ בְּהֶמְתּוֹ

A righteous man knows the soul of his animal

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You should not sit down to eat until you have first fed your animals
(Talmud, Berachot. 40a; Gittin, 62a)

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You should not buy an animal unless you can guarantee it will have an adequate food supply
(Jerusalem Talmud, Ketubot, 4:8).

Moses and David are often described in our tradition as devoted shepherds who gave every animal in their flock personal attention. It was this trait of their personalities that made them worthy in God’s eyes of leading the Jewish people.
( Exodus Rabbah 2.2)

Once, while Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, one young sheep ran away. Moses ran after it until the sheep reached a shady place, where he found a pool of water and began to drink. When Moses reached the sheep, he said: ‘I did not know you ran away because you were thirsty. Now, you must be exhausted [from running].’ Moses put the sheep on his shoulders and carried him [back to the herd]. God said, “Because you tend the sheep belonging to human beings with such mercy, you shall be the shepherd of My sheep, Israel.”
( Exodus Rabbah 2:2)