Write the Rules

When you were born you were given a name and your parents applied for a social security number for you. Those are the rules!

You probably went to the pediatrician regularly and got your inoculations. It’s the rule you know!

When you reached the mandated age you were enrolled in school. It’s the rule!

When you learn how to drive you’ll need to take a test and get a permit and practice with a licensed driver and drive within the speed limit and on the proper side of the road and take a road test and have your eyes checked and start all over again if you fail. Yes, those are the rules of the road!

There are just a couple of the written rules… but there are also seemingly a zillion more that you don’t read, you just know. Every family, every community, every organization and every nation has those rules. Obey the rules and no one mentions them. Break the rules and you get reminded in all sorts of ways.

Based on the texts that you have read in Working with Texts (Attachment One), what are some of the Jewish “rules of the road”? How are we expected, based on our tradition, to live our lives? Write some of these rules – the ones that are not written- in the form of simple sentences.

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For your family:
Ask your parent(s) to contribute to your list. By what Jewish rules do they live in the world?

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