admin | June 4, 2022
Rebbi Meir said: Whoever occupies himself with the Torah for its own sake merits many things; not only that, but [the creation of] the whole world is worthwhile just for himAnd it magnifies him and exalts him over everything. (Avot 6:1)Whoever regularly occupies himself with the study of Torah is surely exalted. (6:2)Great is Torah for it grants life to those that practice it, in this world, and in the world to come.
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admin | June 2, 2022
By David Etengoff One of the most famous sources in all Rabbinic literature that discusses the relationship between G-d, man, Torah, and truth is found in Talmud Bavli, Baba Metziah 59b: On that day Rabbi Eliezer brought forward every imaginable argument, but they did not accept them. Said he to them: If the halacha agrees with me, let this carob-tree prove it! Thereupon the carob-tree was torn a hundred cubits out of its place. No proof can be brought from a carob-tree, they retorted
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admin | June 2, 2022
To the editor Sincere thanks to the YH-R for courageously editorializing about the dangers of theocracies and then publishing a letter about abortion, noting not all people of faith believe the soul begins at conception. Jewish rabbis disagree with Evangelicals and others who make the poetic praise of Psalm 139 (You knit me together in my mothers womb) into a proof-text for legislating when life begins. Many Jewish scholars understand both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to teach the fetus is part of the mother until birth
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admin | June 2, 2022
PARIS (JTA) In 2019, at a Jewish conference in Troyes, France, Myriam Ackermann-Sommer did something quietly historic: She read from the Torah in an Orthodox prayer group.
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admin | June 2, 2022
On Saturday, May 14, an 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo and opened fire. In a matter of minutes, ten innocent people were dead and three more injured. Eleven of the victims were African American, deliberately targeted because of the colour of their skin.
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admin | June 2, 2022
While we strongly support and applaud the current community-wide efforts to encourage thousands of our co-religionists to sign petitions calling for a reversal of the proposed NYS Department of Education regulations prescribing yeshiva curriculums, we also cannot fail to note with sadness that we have yet to take a page from the very successful advocacy book of some of our fellow minorities. Black Americans have scored big time by coming out en masse in public places urging this or that result. To be sure some of their demonstrations have unfortunately been marked by violence.
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admin | June 2, 2022
They do not merit fame only infamy. Grief, despair, anguish all of these words express, in the limited way words can convey heartbreaking pain, our response to the horror of this past weeks murderous rampage in the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
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admin | June 2, 2022
An inscription from about 1,800 years ago that was recently uncovered in a burial cave in Beit Shearim, northern Israel, reveals the name of the deceased and his identity: Yaakov the Convert. The full inscription and the story of its discovery were presented at a joint conference of the University of Haifa and the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday only days ahead of the holiday of Shavuot which celebrates Ruth the Moabite, the classic convert to Judaism. The inscription is from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period, in which Christianity was becoming powerful, and yet we find evidence that there were still gentiles who chose to join the Jewish people, said Prof.
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admin | June 2, 2022
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg There is no purpose for me to describe what happened in Uvalde last week, nor how I feel about it, because you know that already. We mourn the victims and feel solidarity with their loved ones.
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admin | June 2, 2022
In most communities, the Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot during the Shacharit service, usually after Hallel.1 There are several reasons for this custom. According to one explanation, it is read for the many lessons in character refinement that can be learned from the story.
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