JLC Torah Project

JLC Torah project 2016This year has been an unhurried search for wisdom. Each week we read the parashah directly from Etz Chayim and illustrated one aspect of the chapter. Our students feel that Etz Chayim is a beloved friend. They know how to reference the table of contents and check it against the Hebrew calendar to find the current chapter.

We began by counting the chapters in Etz Chayim and organizing the canvass into corresponding boxes of equal size for illustrations. Very quickly, we realized that different students were inspired by different aspects of the reading – some illustrated a visual aspect of the story, others were inspired by a word in Ivrit that jumped out at them, others responded to a color. One student observed that our planned grid would be out of sync because we found at least three visualizations in each chapter. We followed the path as it appeared before us and went with the flow. Some of our illustration boxes became different sizes.

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