FARBRENGENS

How Chassidus Revolutionizes Education

Five Transformative Principles

1. Empowerment vs information, methodology vs. facts, character development vs. data
2. Big picture informs all the details of Torah
3. Root vs symptoms, preventive vs. remedial
4. Relevance
5. Empathy, emotional intelligence and health

Talk delivered by Rabbi Simon Jacobson to Beth Rivkah Teachers. 24 Teves 5780 / January 21, 2020