"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 considers how teacher/student relations sustain
and renew the Jewish tradition, especially during troubled times.
As a commentary on historical and contemporary educational
practices, she asks a range of questions about teaching and
learning: What is it that teachers do when they teach? How do
knowledge, spirituality, and education relate? What might Jewish
models of study and commentary say about how we teach and learn
today? Handelman not only presents pedagogical issues that remain
controversial in today's debates on education but she also brings
the stories themselves to life. Through her readings, the stories
beckon us to sit among the sages and be their students.
Susan Handelman is professor of English at Bar-Ilan University,
Israel.
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