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  • Different Folks, Different Strokes... Ma’amer on Shabbat Chazon

    Different Folks, Different Strokes... Ma’amer on Shabbat Chazon
    2019/08/09
    Ma’amer Moment: Shabbat Chazon ~ מאמר ד״ה ציון במשפט תפדה ~ 5742-1982 Different Folks, Different Strokes
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    29 分
  • When Dinner Interrupts...What’s Up with the Last Supper before the Fast of Tisha B’Av?!

    When Dinner Interrupts...What’s Up with the Last Supper before the Fast of Tisha B’Av?!
    2019/08/07
    Jewish Custom & Convention! Learning the How and Why of our Cherished Traditions On the 9 Days. Part 2: When Dinner Interrupts... What’s Up with the Last Supper before the Fast of Tisha B’Av?! Observance of Tisha B’av seems to require a proverbial Seuda Hamafseket or “Last Supper” before the fasting commences. But why make hay out of final morsels; after all isn't it about abstention? A quick glance at the Mishna serves to solidify the query. Yet, a careful analysis of early Talmudic sources along with classic medieval commentary reveals tantalizing meaning and deeper purpose. A fresh new understanding of what this final meal represents, with a special emphasis on its hidden flavors can only be fully appreciated in its unusual Shabbat incarnation.
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    1 時間 7 分
  • Vegan Values

    Vegan Values
    2019/07/31
    Jewish Custom & Convention! Learning the How and Why of our Cherished Traditions On the 9 Days. Part 1: Vegan Values Why are Wine Meat Verboten next week? The rhyme and reason behind the well established pre-Tisha B’Av ban on meat and wine is surprisingly vague and inconclusive – especially as Talmudic sources say nothing of the sort, and the tradition doesn't jibe with general mourning and bereavement practices! Tracing the generational evolution of the Halachik documentation provides us subtle hints that can lead us towards a fresh understanding of these dining limitations – allowing us to appreciate the jurisprudence behind the Ashkenazic and Sephardic applications of this kindred prohibition.
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    59 分
  • Talmud on Tisha B'av

    Talmud on Tisha B'av
    2018/07/22
    Part Three: Tractate Gitin — The Sugya of Rav Yochanan: Selections of Talmud on the Churbanot of the Battie Mikdash and Beitar.
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    30 分
  • Talmud on Tisha B'av

    Talmud on Tisha B'av
    2018/07/22
    Part Two: Tractate Gitin — The Sugya of Rav Yochanan: Selections of Talmud on the Churbanot of the Battie Mikdash and Beitar.
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    1 時間 42 分
  • Talmud on Tisha B'av

    Talmud on Tisha B'av
    2017/08/01
    Part One: Talmud class about the Churban from Perek Hanizakin. Talmud Gittin 55b-56a
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    2 時間 23 分
  • Good Mourning

    Good Mourning
    2017/07/11
    “Good Mourning” Why is the saddest period on our calendar labelled by weeks but not days?
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    14 分
  • Perek HaNizakin The Talmud on Days of Destruction & Devastation...

    Perek HaNizakin The Talmud on Days of Destruction & Devastation...
    2016/08/14
    Perek HaNizakin The Talmud on Days of Destruction & Devastation... by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan
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    1 時間 56 分