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People of the Link @ LimmudBayArea 2012
1. People of the Link
Estee Solomon Gray
@estee @PeopleOfTheLink
Asilomar Conference Center
the inaugural :) President’s Weekend 2012
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8. At the center of the Limmud experience
is a key but often overlooked attribute
of Jewish learning: everyone can be a
teacher and everyone must be a learner
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9. At the center of the Limmud experience As much as Limmuds around the
is a key but often overlooked attribute world are connected, they also
of Jewish learning: everyone can be a reflect their own communities.
teacher and everyone must be a learner Hence Limoud, Limmoed, & Limud.
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10. At the center of the Limmud experience As much as Limmuds around the
is a key but often overlooked attribute world are connected, they also
of Jewish learning: everyone can be a reflect their own communities.
teacher and everyone must be a learner Hence Limoud, Limmoed, & Limud.
Every Limmud is literally produced by its participants.
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11. From
the
outset,
Judaism
has
predicated
its
survival
on
education.
Not
education
in
the
narrow,
formal
sense
of
acquisition
of
knowledge,
but
something
altogether
more
vast.
Indeed,
the
word
‘education’
is
altogether
inadequate
to
describe
Judaism’s
culture
of
study
and
debate,
its
absorption
of
texts,
commentaries
and
counter-‐commentaries,
its
devotion
to
literacy
and
lifelong
learning.
Descartes
said:
‘I
think
therefore
I
am.’
A
Jew
would
say,
‘I
learn
therefore
I
am.’
Jonathan Sacks
Chief Rabbi of the UK
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12. in CHEVRUTA, please
using your own life & identity(s) as text,
1. How does one know one is a physicist ?
2. How does one know one is a Jew ?
What does this teach us about learning ?
8-10 mins
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13. Humans are built to learn.
›❯
social animals
learning
Etienne Wenger
http://wenger-trayner.com
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15. Where Learning Happens
COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE
Etienne Wenger
http://wenger-trayner.com
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16. CoP Definition #1 (“In Real Life”)
John Seely Brown
http://www.johnseelybrown.com/
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17. “ .. for the first time, we have the technology
that starts to honor the power and role of
the emergent parts of an organization.”
1995
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18. CoP Definition #2 (“On One Leg”*)
“A social history of learning that
has become a social structure.”
Etienne Wenger
http://wenger-trayner.com
*after Hillel 15
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19. CoP Definition #2 (“On One Leg”*)
“A social history of learning that
has become a social structure.”
Etienne Wenger
http://wenger-trayner.com
*after Hillel 15
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20. Six Degrees of Canadian Cycling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonr/4194608074/
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23. Network of Practice
“An extended social history of learning that
has become an extended social structure.”
*after Hillel 19
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24. prac
How Learning Actually Happens
meaning
practice knowing in action
learning participation reification innovation
identity
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25. To see oneself as a Jew is to see oneself as
part of a conversation.
A conversation that extends over time, space,
media, generations ...
In fact, Judaism IS the conversation.
Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary
speaking to MPJCDS board, c1997
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27. Maya Bernstein
“Hevruta: From Study to Action” summer/fall
2011
‣ cultivation of compassionate listening
‣ responsibility for the other
‣ ideas are multifaceted and complex
‣ movement between intellectual discussion
& personal contemplation
‣ deliberate partnering - paving the way for
critical relationships
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28. Jewish Practice
Christianity puts a premium on belief. Piety is determined by how
committed one is to the belief in God and in Jesus as Savior. Yet, belief, in many
Christian views, is not something that the individual achieves by his/her own
efforts. Rather, belief (or faith) is a gift or grace of God that helps one find Truth and
thus achieve personal salvation.
Judaism puts primacy on action and not belief. It puts supreme
emphasis on imitatio dei. Judaism is a call to turn all actions in the everyday
world into moments that transcend the mundane and find higher meaning and
significance—acts of holiness. The centerpiece of holiness is not prayer to God
or belief in God; rather, it is the performance of mitzvot... the halakhah (literally
“the way”), which is the holy practice that leads to salvation (which though in
Christianity generally means “saving” in Judaism can be more likened to tikkun
olam—or repairing the world).
Josh Plaskoff
LEARN OR DIE:
COVENANTAL COMMUNITIES AS A NEW APPROACH TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT,
PhD dissertation, 2008, School of Education, Indiana University
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29. Yehuda Kertzer
Journal of Jewish Communal Service
Winter/Spring 2011.Volume 86, No. 1/2.
"Renew Our Days as of Old": A Tradition of Innovation
Innovation as a Metric of Jewishness
God innovates in the act of b’reishit bara ... the rabbis interpret this cosmogenic moment as one
of innovation more than creation: God makes new within known frameworks and using
preexisting elements. Human creative acts .... must follow the same rules.
The language of innovation is not merely faddish but instead
is integral to the processes of Jewishness
The halaKhic system at it core entails an innovative process of ‘making new’
ancient ideas by applying them to contemporary circumstances.
.the ability to effectively stand with one’s feet in the past
while seeing beyond it to the present and future .. the taqqanah (fix)
the hiddush (makes new)
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30. Silicon Valley Learning/Practice
a constant re-expressing or re-domaining of
old tasks — accounting, or transportation, or medical
diagnostics — within new worlds of the possible.”
- ... not a magical, linear process marked by a series of “Eureka!” moments. ..
- more like the way a system of legal codes forms: slow, organic, & cumulative.
“combinatorial evolution”
at the interstices between disciplines and sectors
With domains, what comes into being is not a new device or method,
but a new vocabulary for expression -- a new language for ‘programming’
new functionalities in. And this happens by slow emergence.
Technology evolves much as a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms —
it creates itself from itself; and all technologies are descended from earlier technologies
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31. People of the Link
The link, not the book, is
(and always has been)
the core of Judaism.
InterTwined , R. Justin Stewart ( www.rjustin.com )
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32. People of the Link
The link, not the book, is
(and always has been)
the core of Judaism.
co ncept
pr actice
value
me aning
InterTwined , R. Justin Stewart ( www.rjustin.com )
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33. From
covenant & commandment
to
community, commentary
& conversation,
the most basic acts of Jewish life are all
forms of linking.
text
learning
leadership
prayer
practice
peoplehood
.....
Even the Book is Linked.
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34. TIE
LINK
NODE NODE
relationship
connection
activity
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35. covenant
a thick, bidirectional tie
the most profound of relationships
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43. radical thought
Link
(a mutually interactive verb: entailing an interdependency
between two subjects, each being the object for the other. )
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44. The closest we can come to
thinking about God is as a process
rather than a being.
We can think of it as “be-ing,”
as verb, rather than noun ...
We might call It God-ing ...
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45. From
covenant & commandment
to
community, commentary
& conversation,
the most basic acts of Jewish life are all
forms of linking.
text
learning
leadership
prayer
practice
peoplehood
.....
Even the Book is Linked.
38 InterTwined , R. Justin Stewart ( www.rjustin.com )
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47. Three Eras of Jewish History
Three Stages of Covenant Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
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48. Three Eras of Jewish History
Three Stages of Covenant Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
Tuesday, February 21, 12 40
49. [LAY? ]
Three Eras of Jewish History
Three Stages of Covenant Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
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50. Link !
Three Eras of Jewish History
Three Stages of Covenant Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
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51. omg-d moments (Aspen 1996)
‣‘The Jews’ actually skipped the whole pyramid hierarchy thing.
‣ We’ve been living & evolving radically linked architectures for millennia.
‣ (But evidently lost our language for it along the way. )
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52. “Judaism
has
always
been
a
religion
of
grassroots
organizing
and
the
rabbinic
model
of
the
20th
century
synagogue
is
perhaps
the
most
foreign
to
the
traditional
Jewish
heritage.
The
real
question
is
not
how
are
independent
minyanim
new,
but
how
are
suburban
synagogues
-‐
a
product
of
early
to
mid-‐twentieth
century
-‐
a
departure
from
a
Jewish
organizing
heritage
shared
by
...
dozens
of
Jewish
communal
structures
of
years
past.
There
is
no
new
“big
idea”;
there
is
just
investment
in
the
old,
but
in
a
serious,
meaningful,
and
thoughtful
way.”’
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53. New/old language: The Networking of Knowledge
“ We thought that knowledge was scarce, when in fact it was just that our
shelves were too small. Our new knowledge is not even a set of works.
It is an infrastructure of connection.”
“ Traditional knowledge is what you get when
paper is its medium... an accident of paper.”
“Networked knowledge is less certain but more
human. Less settled but more transparent. Less
reliable but more inclusive. Less consistent but
far richer. It feels more natural because the old
ideals of knowledge were never realistic...”
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54. New/old language: The Networking of Knowledge
“ The smartest person in the room is the room itself:
the network that joins the people and ideas in the
room and connects to those outside of it. It’s not that
the network is becoming a conscious super-brain. Rather,
knowledge is becoming inextricable from - literally
unthinkable without - the network that enables it.”
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55. “To think that knowledge itself is shaped like books is to
marvel that a rock fits so well in its hole in the ground.”
David Weinberger , Too Big To Know
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56. “To think that knowledge itself is shaped like books is to
marvel that a rock fits so well in its hole in the ground.”
David Weinberger , Too Big To Know
“To think that Judaism itself is made of its institutions is to ...
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57. (invitation to reconsider )
learning
People of the Link leadership
funding
prayer
practice
peoplehood
.....
46 InterTwined , R. Justin Stewart ( www.rjustin.com )
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58. (LIMMUD = learning) = Link
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59. (LIMMUD = learning) = Link
As Jews, Link is one of our native national languages.
But, as with Hebrew, we need to relearn how to speak it.
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60. (LIMMUD = learning) = Link
As Jews, Link is one of our native national languages.
But, as with Hebrew, we need to relearn how to speak it.
To educate a Jew is to bring him/her into the Jewish community of practice
and to link him/her to the larger network that is the Jewish people.
- Josh Plaskoff, Estee Solomon Gray, NATE conference, Feb 2011
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61. Go Forth
and
Link !
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63. Judaism as CoP/NoP
MEANING IDENTITY
LEARNING
content praxis relationship
reification participation
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64. JUDAISM COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE
■ Learning is the root process ...
■ “I learn therefore I am.”
■ ... out of which emerges community, meaning, identity, practice.
■ and not only individual communities, but whole landscapes, whole peoples
■ The socialness of it all!
■ Both the engine & the output of learning are social.
■ Jews are always negotiating of meaning !
■ The primacy of practice over belief
■ Removing the hyphen in Judaeo-Christian
■ The primacy and extensibility of active link / covenant / commandment / community
■ Distributed authority and multiple global/local forms of power
■ Since the destruction of the Temple, if not before
■ The primacy and extensibility of active link / covenant / commandment
■ People of the Link
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65. CONGRUITY
Estee’s professional/community life
1970-2010
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