admin | February 28, 2020
As the Jewish world prepares to celebrate Purim on Monday night, March 9, and Tuesday, March 10 (a day later in Jerusalem), a new edition of the Megillah (The Scroll of Esther) offers a comprehensive new look at the Purim story, including fascinating insights in the light of Chassidism. Translated and interpolated by Rabbi Yosef Marcus, with additional material by Rabbi Eli Block, the volume includes a new commentary anthologized from Talmud, Midrash and classic Rabbinic commentators, as well as insights from the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes, and is copiously annotated and with a sweeping bibliography of sources and comprehensive indices.
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admin | February 28, 2020
In this weeks Torah portion, Truma, we are swept into a world that is foreign to modern man, though magical and wondrous.We read detailed instructions for building the mishkan, the Tabernacle the temporary temple that accompanied the Jewish nation until the permanent Temple was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.The instructions included the Tabernacles area, height, what its walls would be made of, how the wooden boards would be connected to one another, what its ceiling would be made of, and how its opening should be closed; which ritual utensils it would contain, what these utensils would be made of, their exact size, what they would be used for and where they would be situated.We cant help but wonder: Why do you we need to know all these details?The sages of the Talmud and midrash dealt with these issues through an ideological-symbolic perspective. In their opinion, every detail represents a specific essence that exists in reality in every generation and in every culture.
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admin | February 28, 2020
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cant sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cant sleep with the window open. George Bernard ShawNow I know many of you, when seeing China in the headline, figured that I would write about coronavirus. Well I did two weeks ago, and my advice hasnt changed
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admin | February 28, 2020
To call Eat Something a cookbook would do it a disservice. It is much more than that. Subtitled A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews and co-written by Wise Sons co-owner Evan Bloom and S.F.-based freelance writer Rachel Levin, the book of course includes recipes from the local favorite Jewish deli, founded as a pop-up in 2010.
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admin | February 26, 2020
Could studying the ink used to pen the Dead Sea Scrolls help scholars shed light on the many mysteries still surrounding them?According to Ira Rabin, senior scientist at the Federal Institute of Material Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin and the Center for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in Hamburg the answer is a resounding yes.Ancient Jewish Sages were very well aware of the importance of ink in Jewish practice.As it was taught Rabbi Meir said: When I was with Rabbi Yishmael, I used to put iron sulfate into the ink [with which I wrote Torah scrolls], and he did not say anything to me. When I came with Rabbi Akiva, he prohibited me so, reads a passage of Talmud in the Tractate of Eruvim (13a, William Edison Edition translation via Sefaria.org).Several passages in the Bible mention the action or the need of writing something down.
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admin | February 26, 2020
This is the first of four special Shabbatot known as Shabbat Shekalim. The portion and the other three upcoming are all tied to Purim or Passover
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admin | February 26, 2020
The Torah has always shown great compassion and mercy for the weak and unfortunate: the orphan, the widow, and the stranger. In the Torah section last week called Parsha Mishpatim, however, Gd takes up the plight of these hapless individuals by declaring that any cruelty shown to them incurs His wrath. In verse 22:22, the repetition of the verbs If you oppress, afflict him [beware,] for if he cries, cries out to Me, I will hear, hearken to his cry, underscore the severity of tormenting these downcast people.
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admin | February 26, 2020
Dear all, If you had the chance to call God for just one moment (after all, the call rates are out of this world), what would you ask? What happens after I die? Why do bad things happen?
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admin | February 26, 2020
A stopped clock hung prominently in the Wrocaw apartment where I was trying to finish translating Olga Tokarczuks monumental latest novel, The Books of Jacob, in time for my 31 December 2019 deadline. It was the studios only artwork. Jet lag and anxiety made it hard for me to sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time and, whenever I opened my eyes, I would see those gargantuan hands and think, How can it already be so late
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admin | February 26, 2020
Editors Note: This is part seven in a series of Religion News Service interviews with experts discussing what the new decade may bring in religion. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin (Courtesy photo) The Talmud says: Ever since the destruction of the Temple, prophecy has been given into the hands of children and fools. I am neither, but let me tell you what I see in the stars for world Jewry in the coming year.
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