![]() | Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples Subjects: Teacher-student relationships in rabbinical literature; Teacher-student relationships -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Eliezer ben Hyrcanus; Jewish learning and scholarship; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Spiritual life -- Judaism; Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and models for reflection on the teacher/student relationship in the Jewish tradition and in contemporary culture with special emphasis on the hevruta mode of Jewish learning, a collaborative process that invites the reader into a dialogue with teachers past and present. Susan Handelman is professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. |
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