FYI << Online Rabbinic/Mishnaic Study Group A new online Rabbinic/Mishnaic Hebrew study group is forming that will use An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic...
Dear All, Larry Kobring just forwarded a recent newsletter from Bet Morasha that includes a link to this article, which appears to be an important one for ...
This article appeared in the Jerusalem Post today - http://www.steinsaltz.org/dynamic/essay_details.asp?id=70 and I thought that it might be of interest to...
Thanks! As usual with Rabbi Steinsaltz, an original thought beautifully expressed. May G-d grant him a long, healthy, happy and continuingly productive life. ...
As part of my work at the Mandel Center at Brandeis, I'd like to collect some responses from thoughtful teachers of Jewish texts to the following questions: 1....
This is not specifically in response to the question that Susan raised about pedagogy, although it does raise some interesting issues. An article about the...
Someone recently pointed out to me this article http://masliah.googlepages.com/midrashim.pdf that appeared in a local Jewish newspaper distributed in New York....
Thanks, Shalom, for raising this important issue. Because I must respond only briefly at the moment, I will not relate at length to the issue in your first...
I don't think the issue is one of age. As soon as children are old enough to understand that the bedtime story that you read them didn't really happen, they...
Yoel and Nava Finkelman
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Someone sent this my way - http://www.gemaramarkings.com/ and I was wondering what other people who teach think of it. Kol Tuv, Shalom Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger,...
MessageWhile I was hoping that this article would be about integrating the study of English literature and Talmud, it is, nevertheless an interesting attempt...
Are we really sure that Hevruta is a quintessentially "Jewish" way of learning? For example in Shaul Shtampfer's book on the Lithuanian yeshivot he claims that...
In the Makor Baruch, Rav B. Epstein talks about how the Netziv lauded learning in pairs and attacked individual learning. He felt that a person who learns by...
In the Talmud, the famous words of Rabbi Yochana after his chavrusa (Reish Lakish) passed away. Chavrusa o mitusa. The importance of a chavrusa is also...
Yisroel Frankforter
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Aug 31, 2006 9:15 pm
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The statement 'o chavruta o mituta' that R' Frankforter alludes to is mentioned only with regard to Choni Ha-Me'agel upon his awakening. There, 'chavruta'...
Shalom, all! On the other hand, R. Chaim MiVolozhin, in his commentary Ruach Chaim on Pirkei Avot, points out the following on the mishnah that states: ...
While this does not focus on Hevruta learning specifically, my friend and colleague Levi Cooper had an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post this weekend...
Which mesechtot to study? I recently posted to LookJed some basic criteria for choosing which mesechta would be most appropriate for a school to teach. In...
I would like to first of all thank my friend Yoni Kresst for opening what will hopefully prove to be a very fruitful discussion. To add to the discussion, I...
<http://www.Jelimiami.com/default.asp> Miami Semicha Program and Chabad Activities for French Speaking Jews in Florida Miami Semicha Program - Site pour la...
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I have been fascinated with Dr. Shnayer Leiman's investigative analyses of issues of history and halakha ever since I took his "Lifeboat ethics" course in...
I still remember how, as a high school student studying Massekhet Hullin, I chanced upon a Pnei Yehoshua who quoted the Yerushalmi on the massekhet. I turned...
Shalom, Shalom! Thanks for the reference; indeed a fascinating story. I must comment, though, on R. Bechhofer's observation that there seems to have been a...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Shaqla_VeTarya group. File : /fake...
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I received this today and thought that it might be worth presenting to Shaqla_VeTarya readers. Comments? << From: joseph schwarz <schwarzj2004@...> Sent:...
I do not believe that the situation described in this article is as true in North American Yeshiva High Schools as it is in Israel, nevertheless, it does raise...
Last week I sent out a link to Uri Orbach's lament about the state of Talmud instruction in Israeli boys' high schools today. Some of you might be interested...
I was learning Massechet Sukkah with my son and we came across the sugya of "etrog ha-kushi" (31a), which concludes that whether or not a black etrog is kosher...
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