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Photo Credit: Maggid Press Title: The Oral Law: The Rabbinic Contribution to Torah sheBeal Peh Publisher: Maggid PressBy Rabbi Chaim H. Schimmel Is there any value in trying to understand the origins and development of the Oral Torah? The Five Books of Moshe were dictated by G-d to Moshe and the remainder of the Bible was written by various prophets under inspiration
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The opening verses of the Book of Exodus are an abridged, shorter repetition of a much more detailed account of the family, which grandfather Jacob brought with him on his journey to Egypt to meet his beloved son Joseph.
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admin | January 15, 2020
courtesy of Yonatan Gray Yonatan Gray poses as Waldo at the Siyum HaShas. The Siyum HaShas a nationwide celebration that ends each cycle of Talmud study occurs only once every seven and a half years. So when Brooklyn accountant Yonatan Gray had a belated idea for how to celebrate it, he had to wait a long time to put it in action.
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On Jan. 5, Jews around the world began a new Daf Yomi cycle, studying a page of the Talmud every day for the next 7 1/2 years
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I didnt start learning the Talmud to take a stand or voice an opinion. When I started learning a page of Talmud per day (Daf Yomi) at age 10, I didnt realize that anyone would even notice
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When the literary critic Adam Kirsch began the regimen of daily Talmud study known as daf yomi (daily page) seven-and-a-half years ago, he did not do so in the spirit of a believer, and he concluded it earlier this month still a confirmed secular Jew.
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It isDay 2,699, with 12 days to go. At 8.15amabout a half-dozen women settlearound the dining table in a suburban home in Raanana, a few miles north of Tel Aviv, and open their Talmudic volumes.
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If youve been to a Jewish wedding, you mayhave witnessed the bride and groom being lifted on chairs (or even on tables)and danced around by joyous well-wishers. Where did this custom come from? Itis considered a great mitzvah to make the bride and groom joyful at theirwedding.
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Sign Up for Our free email newsletters My older brother, Jake, was called to the Torah almost 19 years ago to the day. As he chanted in Hebrew to our congregation, he wore a yarmulke on his head and a tallit around his shoulders, while a photographer snap-snap-snapped photos, which we can no longer find. I still remember the bagels: everything, sesame, pumpernickel, onion, poppy seed but not blueberry, which we didn't believe in piled as high as the clouds
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Watch: Yaakov Schiffman joined his family in an audience with the Rebbe when his father was terminally ill. The Rebbe proceeded to teach him a page of Talmud, and a lesson that changed his life
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