Vehicles
Learning Vehicles
The two practices through which all of the writing was learned. Not content, but method. Each vehicle cross-cuts every content branch — they are where the questions were tested, not where they were answered.
Psychoanalytic Groups
Eighteen years of training in group psychoanalytic process — with Louis Ormont, PhD; Michael Brook, PhD; and Sean Grover, MSW. T-group methodology in the Carl Rogers tradition. The group as the primary learning technology: not the content, not the platform, but the quality of attention between people.
The group reveals what no individual can see alone — how authority distributes without being spoken, how language operates between people in real time, how a group prevents itself from learning what it does not yet know. The source sheets on Pirkei Avot and Mishneh Torah emerged from this practice. The facilitation guides and the cohort-based learning model are its direct application.
Essay
A Brief History of T-Groups
The historical trajectory of T-groups and social learning — from Kurt Lewin's National Training Laboratories through the encounter group movement to contemporary applications.
Essay
The Human Equation: A Relational Approach to Learning
Learning is fundamentally relational. What happens when a group becomes the primary learning technology — not the content, but the quality of attention between people.
Essay
The Conditions for Learning — Pirkei Avot Reframe
The core methodology essay: "the curriculum is the group itself." What Pirkei Avot reveals about the conditions under which learning becomes possible.
Source Sheets
Teacher and Student — Mishneh Torah, Torah Study 4:2
What the relationship between teacher and student requires — and what it must not become. Lo Habayashan Lameid — the shy do not learn; the strict do not teach. Pirkei Avot 1:2 — love peace and rodef peace.
Silent Sitting
The practice of pausing before what appears. Not meditation, not mindfulness, not a promise of calm or spiritual outcome. A real interval in which there is nothing to accomplish.
The practice arises from the Talmudic instruction to linger for an hour before prayer. The hour is not a performance test. It is the space where what appears before explanation — sounds, sensations, thoughts, impulses, moods, even blankness — can be noticed before it is named. This is where the questions about "self," "soul," and "names" were not theorized about but encountered directly.
The practice has its own site at yishhe.org.
Book · Manuscript
שעה אחת קודם — The Quiet Before
The book on the hour before prayer — the silent-sitting vehicle in full manuscript form.
Essay
Eyelids Open and Eyelids Closed: The Phenomenology of Seeing and Knowing
Appearances do not stop when eyes close; they change mode. The essay that grounds the practice's core insight: what shows up in experience before we decide what it is.
Manuscript
Combined Grammar Book
Verbs, agents, and the illusion of a doer. The grammar book as the silent-sitting vehicle's philosophical expression — what "self" means when the noun is allowed to melt back into the verb.