Sophia: Who is the midrash talking about?
Eli: (Reads the text): "Chavurah U-mishpacha, friends and family."
Sophia: Friends and family. (They both write.) Wait, do you think it's the rocks too? Should we write down the rocks?
Eli: Then there wouldn't be room for friends…According to the midrash, what is a group of people and family like?
Sophia: Umm. Like a group of people…Do you have an idea?
Eli: I think a group of people and a family are like stones because it says there's a pile of stones. It represents a pile of stones.
Sophia: So represents a pile of stones, that’s according to the midrash.
(They both write down their responses.)
Sophia: (Reading havruta guided question sheet): “What happens to a pile of stones when you take one out?”
Eli: When you take one out of a pile of stones, it all starts to totter.
Sophia: So totter. So it starts to totter. (They both write.) According to the midrash, what would happen to a group of people if you take one out?
Eli: If you take one out it would all start to go out--
Sophia: --and it would affect the group of people.
Eli: If you take one out it would affect the whole group, not just one of the people.
Sophia: Yah, and it would change how they felt about the group. (They both write.) So, it would affect a lot
Eli: The whole family.
Sophia: It would affect the whole group of people. Do you think we could do better on either one?