This is the Blog for Rabbi Boiangiu's classes at Columbus Torah Academy.
Monday, November 22, 2010
7th Grade Chumash- Monday, Nov. 22nd
Pesukim: Perek 8 Pesukim 1-4
Rashis: Rashi 'Behaalotecha #1' (pasuk 2)
Worksheets: Pages: 3-4
Homework: Due Tuesday, Nov. 23rd: Please complete Worksheet Page 5.
7th Grade Chumash Resources!!
It was a real pleasure to meet with almost all of you last week at parent teachers conferences. After getting feedback from students and parents in the class, I would like to provide both students and parents with tools to review materials from class on a more regular basis, and allow parents to have a better sense of what is being taught in class, and what skills are being developed.
I have prepared the following explanation of how students need to review and be prepared for class:
How To Review Your Class Work On Daily Basis
1. Every day students are required to review all of the material that we learned during class at home. This should take about 15-30 minutes, everyday.
a. Every day IN CLASS you will write down in your Homework log:
• What פסוקים were learned in class today
• What רש"י’s or other commentaries were learned in class today
• What worksheets from our binder we filled out
• What is for homework, and when it is due.
b. Every day AT HOME, you will:
• Practice reading each פסוק properly
• Practice translating each פסוק as we did in class
• Practice reading each רש"י properly, from the רש"י script
• Practice translating each רש"י as we did in class
• Review the content from the worksheets that were completed in class
• Finish any homework assignments that are due
• Have your parents sign the Homework Log
c. Homework logs and signatures will be checked daily, and will be counted as part
- Download copies of all the worksheets and handouts that are given out in class
- Download copies of the Homework Log
- Find a link to access the Entire Chumash, with Rashi's commentary, In ENGLISH for free
- I have also uploaded an audio file of myself reading the Pesukim and Rashi's properly, so students can hear it and practice the correct pronunciation at home.
Please feel free to contact me at any time at RabbiB@torahacademy.org or on my cell at (614) 725-9165, please use my cell as opposed to leaving messages for me at school.
Rabbi BoiangiuMonday, November 15, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Assignment for 11th Grade Judaic Studies
Please answer the following questions in essay format. Your assignment should be typed, 1.5 spaced, 12 font Arial, one side of a page with 1 inch margins.
Papers are due Monday, November 15th, either in Hard Copy or emailed by the beginning of class to rabbib@torahacademy.org
1. What does it mean that G-d rested from creating the world? In your answer please make sure to bring a proof from a source from the Tanach that shows that this rest was not a physical rest.
2. How can we emulate G-d’s actions in this way?
3. How does our refraining from Melacha bring us to the idea that G-d created the world?
4. What order exists in the days of creation going from the first to the last. What would we have expected to happen on the 7th day?
5. According to the Medrash, what was created on the 7th day?
6. Why is שבת considered a day of ‘eternity’?
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Article By R' Aryeh Kaplan
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
11th Grade Judaic Studies
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Here are All the Files Complete for the Gemara Test on Thurdsday!
Here is the link to the folder with the following files: HERE
Sugya #2.wma
Sugya #3.wma
Sugya #4.wma
Sugya #5.wma
Good luck!!
39 Melachot Project
Click Here To download the file.
Don't forget, the project is being graded on Content and Creativity, so get your wheat grinding wheels churning, and make it exciting!!
And don't forget, that the Handout component and your presentation are due: Friday, November 5th!!

11th Grade Judaic Studies:
Here is the Calendar for the weekly quiz in Kitzur Shulchan Aruch:
סעיפים | סימן | Set of Laws | Date Due |
א – ד, ו – י"א | ו | קצת דיני ברכות ודיני ברוך הוא וברוך שמו | Wed. Oct. 20th |
א – ח | ז | הלכות ברכות השחר | Wed. Oct. 27th |
א – ו | ח | דברים האסורים משהאיר היום | Wed. Nov. 3rd |
א – ט"ו | י"ב | הכנת הגוף לתפילה | Wed. Nov. 10th |
א – ה | י"ג | דין קדושת בית הכנסת ובית המדרש | Thurs. Nov. 18th |
א – ח | י"ד | דין פסוקי דזמרה | Wed. Nov. 24th |
7th Grade Chumash
7th Grade Chumash Class:
We are about to finish our very first Perek of the year, Sefer Bamidbar Perek Alef (1)!
This past week, we have been working on why the Tribe of Levi gets singled out at the conclusion of Perek 1. Moshe was commanded to count all of the Jewish people, and Levi are singled out to be counted separately. Why?? For this we headed to Rash"i.
Students were given the vocabulary words and challenged to work with their Chavruta, their learning partners, to try to understand and identify two different reasons that Rashi gives to answer this question!
Use the following pictures as a hint to Rashi's two Answers!
Boys & Girls Gemara Classes
I have created a new folder to download all of our Audio files. Click on the following
http://www.box.net/shared/n5kqubfugn
This link will bring you to a website called www.box.net. There, you can download the following Audio Files:
Mishna Case #1.wma
Mishna Case #2.wma
Mishna Case #3.wma
Sugya #2.wma
Welcome Back Everyone!
1) Boys Talmud I
2) Girls Talmud I
3) 7th Grade Chumash
4) 11th Grade Judaic Studies: Hilchot Shabbat
