112: Bringing Out a Child's Innate Wisdom with Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

Rabbi Jonathan Rietti – a descendant of the Sephardic leader the Ben Ish Chai and son of the famous British actor Robert Rietti, known as ‘The Man of a Thousand Voices’ and ‘King of the Dubbers’ – received his rabbinical diploma from Gateshead Talmudical College, England, after which he helped establish the now flourishing Kollel in Gibraltar. Having received a master’s in education, he has practiced for over thirty years as an educational consultant to parents of gifted children and those with ADD. With Montessori training, he has developed a curriculum which dovetails a Torah education with Montessori methodology. He has authored over two hundred lectures on topics including inner growth, health, parenting and Jewish identity, and draws upon his background in the film and advertising industries to entertain the listener while sharing powerful insights on love, happiness and ‘emotional intelligence. Rabbi Rietti founded Breakthrough Chinuch in 2009 with the goal of offering a “hands-on” curriculum to compliment the traditional Chinuch system for teachers, parents, schools, and homeschooling parents. https://www.breakthroughchinuch.com/

Gems:

• It is critical to learn Chumash through the prefixes, suffixes, and shorashim (root) letters.
• Allow ample time for review of what your students are learning.
• If you don’t learn sequentially from beginning to end based on actual skills, then there won’t be a strong chance of covering ground and knowing what you learn. 
• The first thing we as educators have to recognize is that we must observe the child first, and then we can educate according to their strengths. 
• Once a child masters the shorashim, and prefixes, and suffixes commonly found in Tanach, it makes it much easier to learn.
• Children have the ability to figure things out for themselves.
• We are causing the wisdom that’s already within the child to come out.
• The greatest teachers are ones who facilitate learning.
• A Rebbe has to have a lot of ways to reach his students.
• The Torah is written so that we ask questions, and the answers are in the Torah She’Be’al Peh (Oral Torah).
• When you know the Shorashim, prefixes and suffixes, you gain access to most of Bereishit.
• Find the strengths of the child and use that to teach any subject you want to teach.
• There needs to be constant back and forth in the classroom.
• Provide the skills and the connection to Torah.

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