Ikkarim Curriculum

Your Ikkarim journey explores four domains of human relationships, each with its own challenges for parents and members of communities.

The Interpersonal Domain

Outward Bound: Ethics Within the Family and Between People

  • Between Parents and Children
  • The Good Marriage: Our Partnerships in Parenting
  • The Ethics of Interpersonal Communication
  • Hesed: Community as Part of Family

The Personal Domain

Inward Bound: The Pursuit of Personal Meaning

  • Finding Our Calling
  • Coping With Suffering and Evil
  • Our Place in the Circle of Life
  • Bringing It All Together: Shabbat as Integration

The Transcendent Domain

Upward Bound: The Quest for Jewish Spirituality

  • Standing With Integrity Before God: Teshuvah 
  • Mitzvah, Morality and Autonomy
  • The Religious Value of Personal Autonomy
  • Jewish Prayer as Spiritual Discipline

The Universal Domain

Homeward Bound: The Search for Jewish Identity

  • The People of Israel and the Land of Israel
  • Chosen People: Jewish Universalism and Particularism
  • Tikkun Olam: Making a Better World and the Boundaries of Responsibility