Talmud Haftorah Assignment – Video
Posted By richards on September 24, 2014
Talmud Haftorah Assignment
This is a project for my Talmud Class. Mr. Goldstein Honors Talmud Gittin.
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Talmud Beach – Pyramid Boogie @Tusovka Fish Fabrique 20.9.2014 – Video
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Talmud Beach - Pyramid Boogie @Tusovka Fish Fabrique 20.9.2014
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Talmud Tutor – Sources – Pasukim – Video
Posted By richards on September 24, 2014
Talmud Tutor - Sources - Pasukim
Video that explains how to deal with pasukim from Tanach that are being quoted in the Gemara. Link to example Gemara: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=1 daf=2 format=text.
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Hearing a Mother’s Pain on Rosh Hashanah
Posted By richards on September 24, 2014
Biblical Sound a Fitting End to Year of Anguish
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Published September 24, 2014.
An almost impossibly difficult year is about to be over, and a new one, filled with new hope and new possibility, will be upon us. As we do each year on Rosh Hashanah, we will stand together and listen to the piercing cries of the shofar. This year more than ever, its important that we stop and consider just what the sounds of the shofar signify.
The Torah refers to Rosh Hashanah as Yom Teruah, a day of teruah. In attempting to explain just what teruah means, the Talmud translates it as yevava, crying. The proof text from which this explanation is derived is fascinating one might even say shocking: the Talmud derives the idea that teruah means crying from the tears shed by Siseras mother as she agonizes over the fate of her son.
Sisera was the commander of the Canaanite army and a reviled enemy of the Israelites. Yael eventually kills him by driving a tent peg through his head. There was never any love lost between the Israelites and this military figure, and the Bible never doubts that Yaels killing him was just. And yet, his mothers anguish registers so deeply that we hear her sobs year after year after year, every time we hear the shofar blast.
A midrash offers another basis for associating the cries of the shofar with the cries of a frightened mother. When Isaac returns home after the Akedah, we learn, he tells his mother what his father had done to him. She asks, Were it not for the angels intervention, would you have been slaughtered? and he answers simply, Yes. At that moment, the midrash says, she lets out six cries and then dies and those cries are the basis of our shofar blasts today. Here again, the blowing of the shofar conjures the experience of a mother terrified for the well-being of the child she loves.
In another version of the story, an angel approaches Sarah as Isaac is bound upon the altar and tells her what is about to happen, adding that Isaac is currently weeping and screaming. Sarah cries and those cries, we are told, are the basis of our shofar blasts. Note the subtle difference between the two stories: In the first one, Sarah sees Isaac and knows that he has been saved; in the second, she has every reason to assume he is about to die. She cries from the utter horror that perhaps his life is ebbing away even as she and the angel speak.
The cries of the shofar correspond to the sobs of a frightened, grieving mother whether Isaacs or Siseras. A chasm divides Isaac and Sisera: Isaac is one of the patriarchs of the Jewish people a bit hapless perhaps, but remembered as fundamentally good and righteous; Sisera, on the other hand, is an enemy and an oppressor of the Jewish people. And yet Jews come together each year to listen to the cries of both mothers, Isaacs and Siseras. As the late Rabbi Yehuda Amital wrote, There are countless differences between Sarah our matriarch and Siseras mother. Yet despite the worlds that divide them, there is one thing they have in common the natural terror a mother feels for her son.
Holding these two mothers together in memory is crucial, because at this late date, when so much blood has been shed and so many dreams shattered, perhaps the anguished cries of parents afraid of losing their children is the only thing that can actually bring people together.
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Poem of the Week / Again You give us a new year
Posted By richards on September 24, 2014
A Slender Promise
Esther Ettinger
Again You give us a year anew with the scents of honey, cinnamon, cloves and a few yellowing leaves on a silvery poplar.
Again You give us a year anew. Hands we knew this past year how weary their expression now and only a slender promise is kept in fingers of poplar or pine.
Again You give us. a new year. What is forgiven, what is shriven the pain in its rocking cradle on the wings of a poplar and a new, fragrant rejoicing.
The scents of honey and cinnamon the beating of wings and delight and a slender promise. How many hues between green and green You bring us anew in leaves of poplar or pine.
From Yarok Efshari (Possible Green, M. Neumann, Tcherikover, 1981). This translation from Hebrew by Vivian Eden was first published in Print in Haaretz Books Supplement for September, 2010.
Reviewing the past year and looking ahead with mixed weariness and hope, this poem develops around perceptions of time. The first stanza relates to the constant and the cyclical in the culinary year and in nature, the second seems to look at the past of an aging individual approaching death, the third, in forgiven, shriven, pain and birth, offers a complex sense of the possibly better future that follows suffering and the fourth is once again cyclical in a nuanced acceptance How many hues between green and green -- of the slender, variegated and resigned hope for a better year, every year, again.
Writing (in Hebrew) in Poetryplace, poet and Talmud scholar Admiel Kosman commented on this poem from the first of the five volumes of poetry Esther Ettinger has published: It is in fact a prayer. Such a limpid prayer that if the generation were worthy it would certainly have added it into the old High Holiday prayer book And in the manner of true prayers the speaker has a specific countenance, so much so that even on the first reading of the poem it is immediately evident that we have here a very feminine work.
"The speaker addresses God but she does not speak of huge things, nor does she pester the Creator with the burning political questions on the agenda; rather she addresses Him with images taken from everyday domestic life: the scents of cinnamon and cloves, hands whose touch becomes weary, a rocking cradle, the fragrance of honey.
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President Jonathan Visits Collapsed Building Site In Synagogue – Video
Posted By richards on September 24, 2014
President Jonathan Visits Collapsed Building Site In Synagogue
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to investigate the cause of the collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations six-storey building. The President w...
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Survivor Narrates Experience As Visitors Throng Synagogue Church – Video
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Survivor Narrates Experience As Visitors Throng Synagogue Church
Few days after rescue efforts at the site of the collapsed guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos ended, a survivor said everything happ...
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Watch How T.B. Joshua's Church-The Synagogue Church Of All Nations Collapsed – Video
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Watch How T.B. Joshua #39;s Church-The Synagogue Church Of All Nations Collapsed
The Synagogue Church Of All Nations Collapse, captured on security camera.
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Jewish Synagogue In Kochi : ithalukal -Varu – Video
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Jewish Synagogue In Kochi : ithalukal -Varu
Jewish Synagogue In Kochi : ithalukal -Varu.
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25 Synagogue Church of All Nations survivors back in S.A – Video
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25 Synagogue Church of All Nations survivors back in S.A
22 September - Government says it has accounted for all of the South Africans involved in the Nigerian building collapse. This morning 25 survivors arrived b...
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