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Studying Sefer haHinnuch is a wonderful project. I hope this Study Guide will help make this medieval work available to a wider audience. Sefer haHinnuch is written as an introductory work, and, with a little help with the background, it can be studied from beginning to end by students who do not have the strongest background in Jewish studies. Studying Sefer haHinnuch is particularly appropriate for adults studying together in small groups, or as a bar-mitzvah or bat-mitzvah project, especially when studied with a parent.
There are several ways to participate in this ongoing study of Sefer haHinnuch. If you live in the Detroit metropolitan area, you can attend the class in person. I expect the entire project to take about 3 - 3 1/2 years, with classes meeting weekly. Click here for more details.
If you are attending the class in person but are starting in the middle of the project, you can catch up by following Season One on the web site. If you don't have time to do that, feel free to join the class anyway. You will want to review "How to Read a Mitzvah" and "A Brief History of Halachic Literature" at your earliest convenience.
You can participate in this project over the
internet, starting whenever is convenient for you. Just click on Season One Class #1 to begin, and follow along class by class. On the web page for each class, you will find the reading assignment for you to read before you proceed. Then, you can choose to listen to the audio recording of the class, or read a written version of the study guide for that portion of the work, or both.
If you are studying Sefer haHinnuch by using this web site, please let me know. I would appreciate any suggestions you have that would make the material on the web site more helpful. If you have substantive comments, pass them along and I will post them. See the Contact Me page for email address and other contact information.
Welcome, and thanks for participating.
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