Palestine gaza Su-kam /nafez abunasse – Video
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IPSC ISRAEL 13 3 15 Genigar Idan28 – Video
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Israeli defence against Gaza – Video
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Israeli defence against Gaza This video showing daily activity of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel during 2014. By: Jan Ivar Brekke
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fire from gaza – Video
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judaisme religion de criminels de barbares Talmud une verite demasquee – Video
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The Shul Study Hall – Talmud – March 10, 2015 – Video
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The Shul Study Hall - Talmud - March 10, 2015
Live from the House of Seven Beggars Synagogue. Join us each Tuesday at 8:00 PM as we explore the Jewish texts. Talmud - Mas. Shabbat 2a (page 443 of the pdf...
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The Secret Jewish History of Pi
Posted By richards on March 13, 2015
Examining the Allure of a Magic Number From the Talmud to Maimonides to Mr. Spock
Anya Ulinich
Published March 13, 2015.
In an episode of the original Star Trek, Mr. Spock played by the late, great Jewish actor Leonard Nimoy commands an evil computer that has taken over the life support system of the Starship Enterprise to compute Pi to the last digit. Spock therefore outwitted the murderous cyborg, which wound up self-destructing, because, as Spock explained, the value of Pi is a transcendental figure without resolution. Being totally logical, Spock wasnt suggesting that Pi had some sort of spiritual quality of transcendence. Rather, transcendental is a math term, and Im going to spare you the definition in hopes that you keep reading beyond this paragraph. But in spite of Spock and his logic, Pi just may have a spiritual quality of transcendence.
The circumference of a circle is always 3.14 x its diameter. Except 3.14 what we now call Pi is only an approximation. The decimals actually keep flowing. Pi is not only an irrational number its infinite and ultimately unknowable. Yet while the number itself always evades our grasp, we also know that its always true and always reliable. Pi always expresses the mathematical relationship between the diameter and the circumference of a circle, no matter how small or how large the circle.
And we know this not from computations of the digital age. The ancients were onto this from the beginning. Every major civilization had its theories of Pi and its mathematicians who tried to explain it. Ancient Egypt and Babylon and India. The Greek Archimedes, the Greco-Roman Ptolemy, the ancient Chinese and Indians all figured out this ratio, which exists both on paper and, as if by some sort of divine plan, throughout nature.
The relationship between a circles diameter a line running straight through cutting it into two equal halves and its circumference the distance around the circle was originally mentioned in the Hebrew Book of Kings in reference to a ritual pool in King Solomons Temple. The relevant verse (1 Kings 7:23) states that the diameter of the pool was ten cubits and the circumference 30 cubits. In other words, the Bible rounds off Pi to about three, as if to say thats good enough for horseshoes and swimming pools.
Later on, the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud, who knew that the one-third ratio wasnt completely accurate, had a field day with the Bible having played fast and loose with the facts, arguing in their characteristic manner that of course it depended on whether you measured the pool from the inside or the outside of the vessels wall. They also had fun with some of the Gematria the numerical value of the words in the original passage, which when you play around with them a bit indeed come a lot closer to the value of Pi, spelling it out to several decimal points.
The great Maimonides later chimed in on this discussion with what reads almost like a warning not to dig too deeply into the mystery of Pi. The ratio of the diameter of the circle and its circumference are unknown and can never be discussed with accuracy, he wrote in the 12th century. This is not a lack of knowledge on our part, as the idiots think, but rather it is that by its nature this thing is unknown, and by virtue of its reality cannot be known, and it is not possible to speak of it its actual value cannot be perceived. Inscrutable. Unknowable. Unapproachable. Kind of like God. No man sees my face and lives, as He told Moses.
In his 1998 debut feature, Pi, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky had some fun with all this when he had a group of Hasidim kidnap his protagonist a tormented mathematical genius named Max Cohen in order to help them divine a hidden mathematical code inside the Torah, which they believed would reveal the lost name of God. Instead, Cohen went bonkers and took a power drill to his skull.
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Etan Cohen, director of ‘Get Hard,’ is used to confounding expectations
Posted By richards on March 13, 2015
Imagination might carry us to new worlds, but the people doing the imagining are often exactly as you'd expect.
The executive with the greatest influence on family entertainment is Pixar chief John Lasseter a jovial, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing father of five. The creator behind some of the most notable stoner man-child comedies of recent years is the stoner man-child comedian Seth Rogen.
Etan Cohen has been responsible for some of the more ribald work Hollywood has produced over the last couple of decades. The longtime screenwriter was a protg of Mike Judge and worked on "Beavis & Butt-head"; he also penned the foul-mouthed antics of "Tropic Thunder." And come Monday, Cohen will make his directorial debut when "Get Hard," the prison-prep comedy starring Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, premieres at the SXSW Film Festival ahead of its March 27 release.
Cohen's movie features shots of frontal male nudity, Hart describing in Tennysonian detail the ways in which Ferrell's prison-bound character will soon be sodomized, and material so raunchy that the film was initially given an NC-17 rating (Cohen and Warner Bros. then trimmed it to an R).
Yet Cohen is not at all as you'd expect. He's a strictly observant Jew--a member of the Orthodox synagogue B'nai David who sends his three children to an Orthodox school, an alumnus of a prestigious Jewish day school in Boston and a post-high school yeshiva in Israel, and someone who still studies Torah every week with his rabbi from said yeshiva.
In a Hollywood proud of its rock-ribbed secularism, Cohen and his wife, Emily, abide by a deeply held set of tenets obeying the biblical prohibition against work on Saturday and major holidays (most of "Get Hard" was shot on a Sunday-Thursday schedule), keeping strictly kosher and filtering all choices through the prism of the normative rules of halacha.
Hard-R comedy by day, Talmud study by night can create some uncomfortable internal divisions. It also makes Cohen something of a double outsider. He's an anomaly in modern moviedom, which shies away from overt displays of religion (even the recent wave of evangelical movies tend to be made outside the studio mainstream). Cohen is also an outlier in the religious Jewish world, which--despite Hollywood's high proportion of secular Jews--tends to view the place warily. There are, in fact, a handful of observant creatives in Hollywood, but they tend to be writers, a far more flexible job. And most aren't making full-frontal comedies.
"People in our community ask me when the movie's coming out, and I make it clear I never want anyone in our shul to see it," Cohen said with a small laugh. "Someone was even saying 'You should make an announcement and have a kiddush [post-services reception] and I said, 'Uh, no.'"
Turning more serious, he said, "This has been a tension for me for many years. I always feel like I have a foot in two worlds."
Cohen, 40, is at an upscale kosher restaurant in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood. He is wearing trendy jeans and the Silver Lake-ish newsboy cap he often prefers to a yarmulke. He has a low-key demeanor and brings up religion only when asked about it.
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150225 Morgulas:Leah@Synagogue – Video
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An excerpt from the synagogue scene in Jerrold Morgulas #39;s opera THE DYBUK, part of Lehrman #39;s second of five lectures on Jewish Opera at Community Church of Manhattan, Feb. 25, 2015. Video...
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Cultural history of the Jews of Spain visited in lecture
Posted By richards on March 13, 2015
In almost every educational institution there are Religious Studies that allows students to learn about different religions including Jewish culture, but there isnt a lot of focus on Sephardi Jewish studies in North America.
In fact, very few people are educated in the Sephardic Jewish studies where they can teach its history, according to Director of the Sephardic Education Center, Rabbi Daniel Bouskila- who stopped by CSUN today to talk about the history of this very small, but rich culture.
Bouskila has heard a lot of people complaining about the narrative in American universities being so Ashkenazim and European-based while the focus on the Sephardi side is barely ever touched upon. He said the narrative of any university system comes down to the understanding of investing a lot of money and assigning what person will do research, write books, and where would this research take place.
If a university decided to endow millions of dollars in Sephardic studies and brought many Sephardic professors and students and encouraged twenty people to get PHDs in the next ten years, that university would create a different narrative, said Bouskila.
Most of the educational Sephardic teachers come from Israel and although their religion was not suppressed or discriminated against in anyway in America, it would still make a great impact to have more Sephardic temples and places where Jews can practice . According to Bouskila, Sephardic Jews are considered the minority in the Jewish community because their community has such a small population in America.
During WWII, Jews were being defined by their ethnic bloodlines for the first time ever and began to be separated from one another. According to Bouskila, this had many Jews decide to move to different countries to avoid the Holocaust and while a lot did migrate to America, not many Sephardi Jews did.
Most of the community traveled to other parts of Europe such as Spain, Portugal, and France, They also traveled to Northern African countries such as Morocco and Algeria, which is where Bouskilas parents are from. He learned Jeudo-Arabic from his parents and sang different prayers in the language which was surprising to some attendees.
There were a lot of things that (Bouskila) was saying that I didnt know about, said Michelle Saxe, an Orthodox Jew from Israel. Ive lived (in Los Angeles) for over 15 years and have not learned about the Sephardi side and was excited to learn and go to this lecture when I heard about it. It was very enriching and I was happy to be learning.
Bouskila said his goal is to educate people and to inspire them to learn about the Sephardic culture.
I always tell people The Messiah will come when there will be Sephardic studies courses in universities,' said Bouskila.
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