Original aqueduct which Herod began to build in the year 22 BCE to bring mountain
water to the beach city of Caesarea from the springs of Mt. Carmel, 10 miles away.
water to the beach city of Caesarea from the springs of Mt. Carmel, 10 miles away.
Day 4 started with a study tour in the ancient city of Caesarea. Since our purpose and primary objective on this retreat is to study communities (with our ultimate objective and mission of building Communities of Practice - CoPs - for our respective areas of Jewish educational expertise) today's theme was "Insiders & Outsiders".
After spending an amazing 6 hours walking the city, studying, the sights, and discussing the complex relationship of the Jewish community living under Roman rule we returned to Bar Ilan University for our closing processing session of the day with Rabbi/Dr. Jeffrey Woolf, senior lecturer in the Department of Talmud at Bar Ilan University.
Dr. Woolf shared with us a few texts and discussed the rise of the first Jewish school's to not only teach Jewish themes, concepts, and religious texts, but which also educated the children in Latin, "Christian scripts", and other secular studies so as to provide them with the opportunity to pursue all business and finance opportunities in the greater community.
It was an intense day with many ramifications for how we will develop our own CoPs in the future, the real influence of these lessons learned however, will be on how we view our current environments of Jewish education.
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