admin | January 15, 2020
After a barrage of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, January 2020 arrived with a burst of #JewishandProud energy. People gathered at rallies, began to wear their Magen David necklaces and donned their kippot. And there was a swell of interest in Daf Yomi, a daily Talmud study project that takes 7 1/2 years to complete.
admin | January 15, 2020
Photo Credit: Maggid Press Title: The Oral Law: The Rabbinic Contribution to Torah sheBeal Peh Publisher: Maggid PressBy Rabbi Chaim H. Schimmel Is there any value in trying to understand the origins and development of the Oral Torah? The Five Books of Moshe were dictated by G-d to Moshe and the remainder of the Bible was written by various prophets under inspiration
admin | January 15, 2020
The opening verses of the Book of Exodus are an abridged, shorter repetition of a much more detailed account of the family, which grandfather Jacob brought with him on his journey to Egypt to meet his beloved son Joseph.
admin | January 15, 2020
courtesy of Yonatan Gray Yonatan Gray poses as Waldo at the Siyum HaShas. The Siyum HaShas a nationwide celebration that ends each cycle of Talmud study occurs only once every seven and a half years. So when Brooklyn accountant Yonatan Gray had a belated idea for how to celebrate it, he had to wait a long time to put it in action.
admin | January 15, 2020
On Jan. 5, Jews around the world began a new Daf Yomi cycle, studying a page of the Talmud every day for the next 7 1/2 years
admin | January 14, 2020
I didnt start learning the Talmud to take a stand or voice an opinion. When I started learning a page of Talmud per day (Daf Yomi) at age 10, I didnt realize that anyone would even notice
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
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