admin | August 31, 2020
Adin Steinsaltz was an Israeli rabbi who devoted nearly a half-century to translating the Talmud for modern readers, an epic undertaking that unlocked for millions of people a foundational but often impenetrable Jewish text. He died on 7 August in Jerusalem. He was 83.
admin | August 31, 2020
Among the 40 manuscripts in this display are works spanning the regions of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and China, covering subjects as diverse as science, religion, law, magic and philosophy. They includeone of the first Jewish scientific works written in the Hebrew language,one of the few surviving copies of the Babylonian Talmud, and the First Gaster Bible, which dates to the 10th century.Together, these rarely seen and beautifully illustrated manuscripts shine a light on the exchange of knowledge between Jewish communities across the world, from the Middle Ages to modernity.
admin | August 31, 2020
The German socialist thinker Erich Fromm is an unjustly neglected figure, certainly when compared with his erstwhile Frankfurt School colleagues, such as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Fromms analysis of authoritarian culture offers what is in many ways a more grounded alternative to the influential theories of Horkheimer and Adorno, and reveals a distinctly more optimistic and hopeful engagement with the question of radical social change. Scholarship on the Frankfurt School and critical theory has minimized Fromms contribution, continuing a trend that Max Horkheimer himself inaugurated after Fromms departure from the Frankfurt Institute in 1939.
admin | August 31, 2020
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admin | August 31, 2020
Religious education doesnt have to be put on hold as pandemic protocols continue into autumn school days. This weeks clergy discuss online resources parents can use to tutor kids in their faith, including workbooks, catechisms and colorful cartoon videos
admin | August 31, 2020
August 31, 2020 by Rabbi Raymond Apple Read on for article Ask the rabbi.
admin | August 24, 2020
The Bor Sud Learning Program- A Revolution in Torah Study Undoubtedly, our tendency to forget what we learn is one of the primary obstacles hindering our growth in Torah.
admin | August 24, 2020
Photo Credit: pixabay The ability to detect a pattern and discern a modus operandi has got to be primary in the arsenal of a crime detective.
admin | August 24, 2020
Jewish Belief and Heaven Yes, Jews believe in an afterlife in a world beyond the one youre currently living insometimes referred to as heaven. A rich tradition informs us that there is a sequel to this life that makes sense of everything youre going through in this installment. Jews call this after-life Olam Ha-ba (World to Come) and Gan Eden (Garden of Eden)
admin | August 20, 2020
Recently I did two amazing things; two things that seem to have nothing in common, but are surprisingly intertwined.I finished Masechet Shabbat, the second masechet in the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning Talmud. And I finished the first 100 kilometers of the Israel Trail, a trail that consists of about 1,100 kilometers in total.As I started considering these two accomplishments and thinking about how proud I am of myself and how grateful I am to have the opportunity to reach this moment, I realized just how similar these two activities are.Last year, my family set a goal of walking the Israel Trail together. So far, we have found nine days to put aside for the task, and we broke each day into 10- to 12-kilometer hikes
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