Bnei Akiva

Goal:

To discuss the founding of Bnei Akiva and define the goals of Bnei Akiva as a movement.

To become familiar with Rabbi Akiva and to understand the reasons that the תנועה is names after him, and to understand the importance of names in general.

Aleph: To learn as to what Bnei Akiva is all about! To learn about the semel and its significance. To understand what exactly is Torah ve’Avodah? Bet: To understand what exactly is Torah ve’Avodah?

Goals:

To learn the Bnei Akiva anthemTo see how many important messages are in the song.To discuss some of the dilemmas that are hidden in the anthem.To play some fun group dynamics games

We talk of counting the omer, but what is the omer? And what is its significance? There are so many questions that we could (and should!) ask, but we are going to focus a few…