The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the ... which means ‘Teacher’ in Hebrew. These are the Torah scrolls being read by a boy during his Bar Mitzvah ceremony in a synagogue.

Tammy Jacobowitz is Tanakh department chair at SAR High School and is the founding director of Makom B'Siach at SAR, an immersive adult education program for parents. She is also an adjunct faculty ...