What character, story, or value would you take from the Exodus story and apply to your life?

In the course of studying these stories, we delved into the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The purpose of this lesson is to review the main points of the stories and to give the students the opportunity to think about what they perceive as the main messages of the stories, messages that they will take with them. The students will share the process of mapping out the stories with each other and will share the knowledge and values that they will remember.

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The conclusion of the story

Exudos 14-15

This unit serves as a review of what was studied in the context of the Exodus. The main value that we will discuss in this lesson is: “In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as if we left Egypt.” That is to say, we would like every student to feel that the story of the Exodus is their own, personal story and impacts on their behavior and their life. While it is obvious that our students did not physically experience the Exodus, they can still feel part of the story by means of the knowledge and values that they take away from it and apply to their own lives. This feeling of “belonging” happens by means of remembering the story itself and sharing it with future generations, as well as by the application of the values gleaned from the stories in their daily lives.

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Unit Knowledge Goals

Objetivos de conocimiento en la enseñanza de la unidad

Objectifs pédagogiques de cette unité

  1. Review of the plot and details of the Exodus stories.
  2. Familiarity with the expression “In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as if we left Egypt.”

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Résumé de l’unité et valeurs centrales

After we studied the subject of the Israelites’ slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, in this lesson we will try to map the main topics and the values we take with us from our study. The students will be asked to do a project of mapping the story of the Exodus - knowledge and values from the story.

Students will share with each other the knowledge and values that they learned and will work on clarifying the most important lessons that they will take with them and apply to their lives.

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"בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר חַיָּב אָדָם לִרְאוֹת אֶת עַצְמוֹ כְּאִלּוּ הוּא יָצָא מִמִּצְרַיִם"
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“In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as if we left Egypt.”

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Opening Activity

The teacher will remind the students that we began our study of the Exodus with the question “Where does the Exodus story begin?” Now we will ask where that story ends.

  • We can direct the students to the infographic image of the Exodus and ask:
  • according to the image, where does the Exodus story end? Why does it end there?

According to the infographic image, the story seems to end at Mount Sinai, since receiving the Torah and becoming the nation chosen by G-d is the culmination of the process of the Exodus and the end of Egyptian slavery. At the moment when the Israelites received the Torah their servitude to Egypt ended and they became servants of G-d (one could suggest that the pyramids of Egypt express lowliness while the mountain of Mt. Sinai expresses great height). Another approach would be to say that the Splitting of the Red Sea is the end of the Exodus story, since at that time the Israelites were no longer living under the threat of their Egyptian masters.

Yet another possibility might be that the Exodus story ends only when the Israelites enter Canaan - the Land of Israel (noted by an arrow at the end of the map) - as is promised by G-d at the beginning of the process of redemption: “I will free you… and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you… I will take you to be My people…I will bring you into the land.”

Even the Aliyah to the Land of Israel in recent history (which is hinted to in the image with the ship “Exodus” sailing to Israel) expresses the idea that the Exodus story is still taking place and has not come to its final end.

As you know, we learned in the last lessons about the enslavement and the Exodus from Egypt. In each lesson we touched on different characters, different events, and different messages that arise from this study. In this lesson, we will try to map the main knowledge and values that each student may have learned, and what they might apply to their own lives from studying the story of the Exodus. This is how we will apply the sentence: “In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as if we left Egypt.” The story of the Exodus touches each of us personally at every stage of history.

Another possible option to open the lesson would be to present a short overview of the different topics within the larger story that we learned together:

  1. We became a nation of slaves
  2. A leader blossoms out of crisis
  3. Challenges on the way to redemption
  4. Ten Plagues
  5. “…and you shall teach you children…”
  6. The Splitting of the Red Sea

Every pair of students can choose one or two of these topics and carry out a mapping and review assignment, as explained below.

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We will use the mindmapping method to help our students review and summarize what they have learned about the Exodus story (you can learn more about this method by clicking on the link).

You can encourage students to prepare their own mind map to summarize the story of the Exodus from Egypt.

Below is a suggestion for a map that covers the main ideas and themes in the Exodus story. You can also use a blank map in which the teacher and the students will build maps suitable for their class or for the study topics they want to emphasize. The main topic can be one of the stories, or each group will choose a certain topic.

Students can work by themselves or in pairs, aiming to review the ClassE or worksheets that they chose, so that they will remember the details that they learned.
For examples, if a student chooses the first story, their map may look something like this:

Students can share their thinking with their classmates afterwards by hanging all the maps on the classroom walls or with an activity where the students walk around the class, examine each other’s maps and ask questions, like:

  • What did I learn from my classmate’s map? 
  • What questions do I have now that I have seen my friend’s map?
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A closing activity for students 

After the students have prepared their mindmaps that explain their thought process in reviewing the Exodus and deal with many details, it is worthwhile to bring them back to focus on the central message.

 You can ask the students:

  • What single message do you take with you from your study of the Exodus story?
  • What new knowledge did you gain this year by studying the Exodus story?

 Here is a possible writing exercise: 

“In every generation we are obligated to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt.”

Write 2 sentences you would want to share. The sentences should include statements describing a new value, historical understanding or way of reading the biblical story that you came to appreciate or understand in the course of your study. Instead of putting it into writing, you may want to draw something. 

You can create an “active wall” that includes every student’s message on the wall.

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A summary for the teacher

In this lesson we asked where the story of the Exodus ends, and made a number of suggestions:

  • At Matan Torah, (expressing the acceptance of the Kingdom of G-d and the Torah, which is a way of life for the new nation.)
  • At the Splitting of the Sea (when the threat from Egypt had ended)
  • With the conquest of the Land of Israel (which is when the stage of entering the Land according to the promise of redemption was realized.)
  • We are still in the process of leaving Egypt, a process that affects us and is therefore not over yet.

In concluding their study of the Exodus story, the students practiced mind mapping and reviewed the events, the characters and the messages that emerged from the part on which they chose to focus. The main thing that we would like to see the students gain from this lesson is to recognize that the study of the story of the Exodus has something essential to teach them that can affect their own lives.

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