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On January 4, the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of Talmud study known as Daf Yomi in which a double sided folio page of Talmud is studied every day will be completed, and huge next-day celebrations will be held in Israel and around the world.This year for the first time, a large-scale, global celebration for some 3,000 women (and some men) from around the world will be held in Jerusalem to celebrate their completion of the daily Talmud study cycle.The massive Siyum Hashas event, as the Daf Yomi end-of-cycle event is known, planned for January 5 in Jerusalems International Convention Center, is designed to inspire those who attend to look toward the future cycle, to go on to more religious study opportunities and to feel like they are part of a bigger movement.The event will boast a wealth of the leading female Talmud experts and educators, and will host women and school girls from around the world including the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, who are flying in to Israel to take part in the celebrations.Although Talmud study was for many years largely restricted to men, over the last few decades the number of educational frameworks providing Talmud study to women, whether in high school, seminaries or beyond, has grown significantly.Despite this, regular and convenient access to Talmud study for women outside of such frameworks had not been particularly available, especially compared to the wealth of Talmud study programs of all kinds for men.It was this vacuum that Michelle Cohen Farber sought to fill when she co-founded the Hadran womens Daf Yomi Talmud study group in 2012. Hadran meaning we will return is part of the blessing said upon completion of a Talmudic tractate.I realized a lot of women in my community didnt have access to Talmud study, but I thought that the way the modern world was going, it was hard to understand how this could be, Cohen Farber told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.She said that most women in the religious-Zionist sector in Israel do not learn Talmud and have never done so, and that most of that community still does not think it particularly important for women to do so.She noted that even today, most girls schools do not have Talmud study as an obligatory or even an optional curriculum subject.There is a big gap between what girls and boys are offered in this regard, something which in our modern age shouldnt be happening
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admin | December 17, 2019
A maggid isa Jewish preacher, a title most commonly held by preacherswho flourished in Poland and Russia during the 17th and 18th centuries, mostnotably the Maggid of Mezrich. A maggidwould usually preach about ethics, morality and religious observance, oftenlinked to the current Torah portion or holiday, with the goal ofencouraging or admonishing the audience
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admin | December 17, 2019
The number 70 is a key number in the Torah and the Tanach. It is spoken about in Daniel as well as Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) in relation to a span of time concerning the first exile.
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admin | December 17, 2019
Alan Stern Published 10:17 a.m. ET Dec. 16, 2019 | Updated 5:00 a.m
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admin | December 17, 2019
A simple pancake made with potatoes, onion, and matzo meal fried in oil is the highlight of many Hanukkah celebrations and a symbol of a miracle from over 2,000 years ago. According to the Talmud, the book of Jewish law, when the Jews rededicated the Temple of Jerusalem after defeating a tyrant king, one days worth of oil provided light for eight nights
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admin | December 17, 2019
It has long been understood, and by cultures too various to list, that salamanders have something of the supernatural about them. Their name is thought to derive from an ancient Persian vocable meaning 'fire within', and for at least 2,000 years they were believed to be impervious to flames, or even capable of extinguishing them on contact. Aristotle recorded this exceptional characteristic, as did Leonardo da Vinci
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admin | December 17, 2019
Photo Credit: Nati Shohat / Flash 90 By Mark Newman Anyone who even casually knows the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) has heard of Shmuel the Prophet. He accomplished many great things of which two were anointing Shaul (Saul) of the tribe of Binyamin (Benjamin) the first king of Israel and later anointing David of the tribe of Yehudah (Judah) the king of Israel. Additionally, Shmuel wrote Sefer Shoftim (the Book of Judges), Sefer Shmuel (the Book of Samuel), and Megillat Rut (the Scroll of Ruth), three of the 24 books in Tanach
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admin | December 17, 2019
(JTA) Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe Tuesdays shooting at a kosher market as a hate crime motivated by anti-Semitism. He did so on Wednesday, a day before the states attorney general did. Had I said that we were unsure of the motives or the reasons or whether it was a hate crime, I feel like it wouldve jeopardized my relationship with the community, the trust Ive built, and at the end of the day we would have looked very foolish, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview Friday
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chassidim have celebrated the 19th of Kislev (Yud Tes Kislev) ever since the Alter Rebbe (1745-1812) author of Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya was released from czarist imprisonment on that date in 1798. It gained even greater significance, however, when 103 years later his great-great-grandson, the Rebbe Rashab (1860-1920), proclaimed it to be the Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus. The Alter Rebbe was imprisoned on charges of treason because, among other reasons, he had annually sent funds to support chassidim in the Holy Land, which was then part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire Russias enemy
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admin | December 9, 2019
(JTA) Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. When my son was born, I said, Good, we had a boy first, itll give the world a little time to catch up for women, Farber said.
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