Sanhedrin Way: Apply Your Constructive Disagreement Skills

An educator's guide exploring how the ancient Sanhedrin used to cultivate an environment conducive to constructive disagreement.

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Goals:

• Students will learn about four procedures that the ancient Sanhedrin implemented in order to cultivate a mahloket le-shem shamayim environment.
• Students will become ‘members’ of the Sanhedrin who need to apply their constructive disagreement skills in order to arrive at a verdict in the complex case of “Keep or Cancel the Controversial Speaker.”

Accompanying resources:

• ‍Educator’s Guide‍
• Slides‍
• Student Workbook

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These resources are excerpts from a full curriculum called Mahloket Matters Teens: Navigating Inner Challenges and Societal Discord through Jewish Text and Social-Emotional Learning. Please click here for more information about the full curriculum or contact mm@pardes.org.

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