An innovative approach to religious education.
Torah Godly Play is an innovative approach to religious education that seeks not so much to tell stories of faith in order that we will “know” them, but as spiritual action of finding meaning, identity and God through storytelling and listening. The pedagogical ideal of this approach is that, from the earliest age, children are invited to experience and become increasingly aware of the spiritual call within sacred stories and of their own deep response as something naturally afforded by religious narrative
Watch Hebrew College’s Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire tell the Exodus Story using the Torah Godly Play methodology.
“I have been having the BEST time telling TGP stories each week on Zoom. In our small school we have been gathering as families each Shabbat morning for our usual circle time – a little t’fillah and a little community learning/conversation. I started with the intention of playing with TGP as one of a few storytelling strategies in order to keep it interesting. But the TGP work has gotten such rave reviews from teachers, parents and kids that now I’m committed to making it my primary – if not my only – strategy for our weekly Torah portions. It’s a whole different kind of immersion into text.”