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It Takes a Holy Imagination

It Takes a Holy Imagination

There’s no time like Rosh Hashanah to think about the big picture. God created the world with great potential and only the creation of humans on the sixth day enabled that potential to be realized. A midrash in Chullin 60b reveals to us that while the earth brought forth grasses on the third day of creation, they grew underground, unable to sprout above soil until the needs and will of a human being to pray for rain brought vegetation to fruition. All of creation hovered in potential until Adam was created and developed a relationship with the Creator.

And so we carry that legacy now thousands of years later. We carry the responsibility to bring forth potential from our world. From the most mundane material object to a divinely created soul we are blessed to care for, we are tasked with developing the potential of each in its fullest form.


Mayberg Foundation Trustees, Staff and Grantee Clients Participate in ZoomOut Summit on Jewish Education

Mayberg Foundation Trustee, Manette Mayberg, in addition to Foundation staff and grantee clients had the honor to participate in three sessions at the ZoomOut Summit on July 13-14, 2020, to discuss and envision the future of Jewish education. The conference, facilitated by The Israeli American Council and Tel Aviv University Online Innovative Learning Center, prompted meaningful exploration about how to reimagine the classroom.

All three sessions—highlighted below—offered insight and wisdom that can have a positive impact on shaping Jewish education.

Manette Mayberg's Op-Ed Connecting Revelation at Sinai to the Charge of Jewish Education Featured in EJewish Philanthropy

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EJewish Philanthropy featured an op-ed authored by Manette Mayberg, Trustee of the Mayberg Foundation, on Thursday, May 28, 2020.

Her article entitled, "Na’aseh! Taking Action to Preserve the Holiness of Jewish Education,” connects the holiday of Shavuot and lessons learned from the Torah’s explanation of Revelation at Sinai to the essential charge to all Jewish educators. She emphasizes the importance of collective effort across the field to continue experimenting with personalized learning methodologies to ensure Jewish day schools achieve their mandate of optimizing student internalization of Jewish wisdom, identity and decision making.