richards | April 10, 2014
Sacred-Texts Judaism Buy CD-ROM Buy books about Judaism Translated by Michael L. Rodkinson [1918] Book 1: Tract Sabbath Book 2: Tracts Erubin, Shekalim, Rosh Hashana Book 3: Tracts Pesachim, Yomah and Hagiga Book 4: Tracts Betzh, Succah, Moed Katan, Taanith, Megilla and Ebel Rabbathi or Semahoth Book 5: Tracts Aboth, Derech Eretz-Rabba, Derech Eretz-Zuta, and Baba Kama (First Gate) Book 6: Tract Baba Kama (First Gate), Part II and Tract Baba Metzia (Middle Gate) Book 7: Tract Baba Bathra (Last Gate) Book 8: Tract Sanhedrin: Section Jurisprudence (Damages) Book 9: Tracts Maccoth, Shebuoth, Eduyoth, Abuda Zara, and Horioth Book 10: History of the Talmud A search for Talmud at Google will turn up hundreds of thousands of hits, a depressing number of which are to anti-Semitic sites
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richards | April 10, 2014
Cartoon by Steve Greenberg Each time we hear of yet another heart-wrenching and infuriating agunah story, we tend to point an accusing finger at the Jewish legal system that has created these circumstances, in which spiteful, angry husbands can cynically abuse the divorce laws to extort and torment their wives. And this is not an unreasonable reaction. It is true that within halachah, the husband alone possesses the legal authority to issue the Jewish writ of divorce, a get.
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richards | April 10, 2014
Maybe it is appropriate that books created by the People of the Book are just as complex and varied as the people themselves. Our Torah contains multiple versions of the same stories. In the Talmud, interactive commentaries spiral out from original texts.
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richards | April 10, 2014
Chances are There's Something Jewish About Your Joe Wikimedia Commons Four of Cups: The creator of the Anthora cup was Leslie Buck who was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In the Talmud (Eruvin 65b), Rabbi Ilai cleverly opines: A person is recognized by three things: their cup, their pocket, and their anger.
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richards | April 9, 2014
When Jewish tradition is steeped in gender roles, how does a transgender Jewish person mark their own gender confirmation procedures? A number of years ago a friend asked me to co-write a ritual to mark his gender-transition to manhood.
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richards | April 8, 2014
Displeased With Arrival of April 15? Take It Up With Abraham Getty Images A Land Divided: Abraham and Lot divide the land and, in some way, begin to invent the concept of taxation
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richards | April 7, 2014
Koren Talmud Bavli - A Taste of Passover Get a taste of Passover with the Koren Talmud Bavli with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. Here's a short passage from Tractate Pesahim page 4... By: Koren Publishers
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richards | April 6, 2014
Rabbanit Iris: Tomer Devorah and Talmud Torah Matches Them All HEBREW 2012 Rabbanit Iris Tomer Devorah HEBREW 2012 03 15. By: tomer devorah
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richards | April 6, 2014
The "Other" Talmud The racist author's of the Babylonian Talmud are credited with creating the "Curse of Ham" which we will go into into later.
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richards | April 3, 2014
Darwin 666 talmud agenda 14 By: Mr Universal Metaphisics Unius REI
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