Week 38 · Kashrut, Home, and Life Cycle
Birth, Covenant, Honor, and Lovingkindness
Questions 640–649
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Objectives
Explain this week’s central concepts accurately, respectfully, and in clear language.
Answer Questions 640–649 in complete sentences and correct them after discussion.
Connect belief and law to observable practice in home, synagogue, and community.
Core content
Brit milah; pidyon haben; tzedakah; chesed; honoring parents; balancing obligations.
Required reading
An approved Jewish life-cycle guide; selected halakhic sources on brit milah, pidyon haben, honoring parents, tzedakah, and chesed, assigned by the rabbi.
Practical observance
Complete one sustained act of chesed through the Orthodox community.
Hebrew strand
Practice 10–15 minutes daily: key home and lifecycle vocabulary. Record one passage that became easier this week.
Homework and reflection
Complete written responses for 640–649; mark every answer that depends on local custom or rabbinic ruling.
Write 150–250 words: “How should this week’s learning change the way I live?”
Record attendance, practice completed, uncertainties, and one question for the sponsoring rabbi.
Rabbinic checkpoint
Show that mitzvah observance deepens, rather than excuses, ethical responsibility.