SARA STAVE is the founder, writer and editor of Sababa Books.
Sara currently teaches in the fifth and sixth grades at the Solomon Schechter Day School in Bergen County, NJ. In addition to teaching humash, mishnah and navi over the past four years, Sara has been responsible for both large and small minyanim and adding iyun tefillah into daily Shacharit services in the middle school. She has also served two summers as Rosh Tefillah at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires in Wingdale, NY. Sara graduated from the Davidson School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary with an MA in Jewish Studies, concentrating in Informal Jewish Education, in 2004. Her Masters Thesis was the creation of a Middle School tefillah curriculum for use in a camp setting.
Siddur Sababa is the result of Sara's research and experiences teaching tefillah since 2002.
Sara currently resides in Manhattan.
SHERYL JAFFE, MAAT, is an art therapist, primarily working with hospitalized adolescents. After earning a BA in psychology, with secondary fields in Public Health and Jewish Studies, Sheryl completed her graduate degree in Art Therapy in 2006, with a vision of pursuing tikkun olam through the creative arts. As a former religious school and Hebrew High teacher, Sheryl's goal was to sustain her students' curiosity--even early on Sunday mornings. Ms. Jaffe is a veteran Ramahnik, who credits her ruach to having spent a combination of sixteen summers at Camp Ramah (Berkshires and Nyack), and her family, who inspire her through their own Jewish/Communal leadership. While Sheryl grew up in northern New Jersey, she currently resides in Washington, DC.
Siddur Sababa has three main goals:
1- Students will learn the meaning of the prayers and the structure of Shacharit
2- Students will be given an outlet for attaching personal meaning to the prayers and expressing amazement at God's hand in the Creation of the world around us.
3- Students will see the connection between Jewish prayer and peoples' role in partnering with God in fixing the world (tikkun olam)
COMING SOON:
- Teachers' Guide
-- Page number charts
-- Laminated art posters
-- Laminated worksheet posters
-- Shabbat Sababa!
The teachers' guide is a collection of diagrams, discussion starters, prompts for writing creative prayers and prompts for creating and analyzing artwork. It will be about 60 pages and available this spring!!!