Rapids Podcast: CCL Fever, Chris Cartlidge Interview – Last Word on Baseball
admin | February 21, 2022
PODCAST Hello Rapids Fans! This week on Holding The High Line, its a new season, new intro, who dis? Rabbi and Red have Rapids CCL Fever
Now Is the Time! ArtScroll’s 30%-Off Talmud and Mishnah Sale – VINnews
admin | February 11, 2022
Are you missing volumes in your Mishnah or Talmud sets and want to fill them in?
Rabbinic Rabies and Rabid Rabbis the ‘Mad Dog’ in Talmudic Texts – The Media Line
admin | February 11, 2022
Wed, 9 Feb 2022 18:00 - 19:00 Greenwich Mean Time (UTC0) Register here. Ancient rabbinic advice about mad dogs About this event This lecture will discuss some significant passages from the early (Mishnah/Tosefta) and late (Palestinian/Babylonian Talmud) rabbinic traditions of late antiquity that deal with so-called mad dogs (kelev shote). The texts introduce different classifications or taxonomies of this condition and elaborate on theoretical and practical knowledge about appropriate cures and remedies.
Opinion | In the Jewish Tradition, the Words We Choose Matter – The New York Times
admin | February 11, 2022
The Torah begins with the world being created by words.
Written in the Book of Life: On Kathryn Schulz’s Lost & Found – lareviewofbooks
admin | February 11, 2022
NINETEENTH-CENTURY RABBI Simcha Bunim of Peshischa told one of his followers to transcribe a quotation from the Talmud The world was created for me onto a slip of paper to keep in his right pocket. Whenever he felt sad or distraught, the man could pull out the words to remind himself that his life was of boundless value. When he was feeling powerful or important, he should instead read the words in his left pocket I am nothing but dust and ashes which would point out the humbleness of his true state.
Why the Torah cares so much about these two little sheep J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | February 11, 2022
TheTorah columnis supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon.TetzavehExodus 27:2030:10 The beginning of this weeks Torah portion deals almost exclusively with the vestments of the Cohen Gadol, or High Priest. We get elaborate descriptions of each article of clothing that was worn during the service in the Temple, as well as the outfits of the other Cohanim (Priests). And the parashah concludes with a description of the golden incense altar that stood just before the screen at the entrance of the Holy of Holies.
True colors | Meirav Kravetz | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
admin | February 11, 2022
We live in a world of colors, even though we know that colors are in fact an illusion. Interestingly, in Hebrew, the word for color is tzeva, which comes from the same root that means hypocrite, or false. In Parshat Tetzaveh, we read about the clothes of the high priest in the Tabernacle, or Miskhan, in detail, including their colors and the materials they were made from
How inclusive are we willing to be? | The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle – thejewishchronicle.net
admin | February 11, 2022
This op-ed was first published on eJewishPhilanthropy.com. Last week, a 26-year-old Jewish educator named Jessie Sander filed a lawsuit against her former employer, a flagship Reform synagogue, claiming she was fired because of her anti-Zionist beliefs, in violation of New York State law. While I cannot speak to the legal claim, I have been thinking about the value of inclusivity which many Jewish organizations espouse
Raunchy, sarcastic TikTok Talmud commentary isn’t profane; it’s Torah – The Times of Israel
admin | January 30, 2022
JTA Is it appropriate to call an ancient rabbi a legendary hottie?
Talmudic Legal Thinking: Author Brings Humor, Sports and Celebrities to this Serious Topic Detroit Jewish News – The Jewish News
admin | January 30, 2022
Yudi Levine, a native Detroiter who now lives in Texas, has written a lively, funny, readable, informative book about what could be a forbidding topic legal thinking in the Talmud.
