admin | January 14, 2020
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.
admin | January 14, 2020
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.
admin | January 14, 2020
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.
admin | January 14, 2020
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
admin | January 14, 2020
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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