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new “soulful” approach to
Jewish text study is helping
Hillel Day School students
develop strategies for mindfulness
at just the right time, as the world
continues to move at a fast pace and
mental health challenges are on the
rise among youth nationwide.
“We know that social-emotional
health informs general health and
that it relates to one’s ability to learn,”
said Hillel Rabbi David Fain. “Now
more than ever, kids need to learn
how to be more mindful, how to
balance the mind and the soul. We
spend a lot of our day focused on the
mind, but we get more bang for that
buck when we balance it with the
soul.”
The approach, developed by
Ayeka’s Soulful Education program
for Judaic Studies, puts prayer into
a larger context, giving students the
opportunity, for example, to cre-
ate an interactive siddur with their
own commentary, or to reflect on
the Amidah and what it means to
them or, when they study forefathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and fore-
mothers Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and
Rachel, to consider which three and
four people in their own lives they
would choose as influential figures.
It even figures into homeroom
activities in the morning, such as
when students toss around a koosh
ball. “The person who holds the ball
talks about how they’re feeling,” said
sixth-grader Ezra Lupovitch. “It’s a
way to check in with yourself for the
day.”
Today’s students want tradition and
spirituality to relate to their world.
“Ayeka helps to make tefillah per-
sonal,” Fain said. “Each day, students
check in with their own spirituality,
asking themselves the same question
God asks of us, ‘Where are you?’
Understanding what’s going on inter-
nally can help a student set him or
herself up for success for the day.”
Founded in 2006 in Israel, Ayeka:
Center for Soulful Education gives
teachers the pedagogical tools to
engage students’ deeper Jewish and
spiritual identities while teaching
Torah of all forms. Its mission is
to provide teachers and individual
learners with tools to breathe life
into Jewish text study and enable a
personally relevant, meaningful and
life-impacting experience.
Clara Gaba, a veteran Judaic stud-
ies teacher at Hillel who is helping
to lead efforts to infuse Ayeka into
the curriculum, particularly loves the
way its approach affords today’s busy
students the opportunity to “privately
analyze the words and ideas of these
3,000-year-old holy texts and connect
to our tradition. As Rabbi Aryeh Ben
David, the founder of Ayeka says, ‘If
you haven’t reflected on your learn-
ing, you haven’t studied.’”
The Ayeka methodology is the next
step in Hillel’s evolution to incor-
porate best aspects of modern edu-
cational thought and practice, said
Saul A. Rube, dean of Judaic studies,
and is “potentially transformative for
today’s students so that it makes a
positive difference in their lives.” ■