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Immersive Learning - Jewish Calendar

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Subliminal Learning

Since Torah is eternal and we can never span it’s complete depths, there is always an element of subliminal learning. Learning that either is only on a spiritual/ soul level (see Educating Learners) or knowledge that is absorbed consequential to the subject matter, as we find in a metaphor or parable.

The following lesson utilises this phenomenon to teach the Hebrew calendar. Students are primarily learning Rashi on the mabul in Parshas Noach and through their toil in this complex learning, they learn the Torah months thoroughly.

The first set of variables Rashi brings is the two opinions of Rebi Eliezer and Rebi Yehoshua, as to when the world was created and thus, which months the Torah refers to in the count. This already gives students a double exposure to the calendar.

Students create 2 timelines that represent all the dates as follows:

Opinion of Rebi Eliezer who says the world was created in Tishrei:

Tishrei

 
 

Mar Chesvan

 
  • 17 - Flood Begins

  • Rains 40 days and nights

Kislev

 
  • 28 – Rain stops

Teves - Shvat - Adar - Nissan - Iyar

Sivan

 
 
  • 1 – Water Stops

  • 17 – Teivah rests on top of mountain

Tamuz

Av

 
  • 1 – tops of mountains seen

Ellul

 
  • 11 - Noach sends Orev bird

  • 18 - Noach sends dove - dove returns

  • 25 - Noach sends dove– returns with olive branch

Tishrei

 
  • 1 – land dried to clay –

  • 3 – Noach sends dove – doesn’t return

Mar Chesvan

 
  • 27 - Land dries Noach comes out teiva

 

Opinion of Rebi Yehoshua who says the world was created in Tishrei

 

Nissan

 
  • 17 - Flood Begins

  • Rains 40 days and nights

Sivan

 
  • ֿ28 – Rain stops

Tamuz - Av - Elul - Tishrei - Mar Cheshvan

Kislev

 
  • 1 – water stops

  • 17 – teiva rests on mountain

Teives

Shevat

 
  • 1 – tops of mountains seen

Adar

 
  • 11 - Noach sends Orev bird

  • 18 - Noach sends dove - dove returns

  • 25 - Noach sends dove– returns with olive branch

Nisan

 
  • 1 – land dried to clay –

  • 3 – Noach sends dove – doesn’t return

Iyar

 
  • 27 - Land dries Noach comes out teiva

 
 
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