Dear All, There has been discussion recently on Lookjed about Dr. Pinchas Hayman's "Revadim" method of teaching Gemara that is being used in a number of ...
Dear All, Once again, with the arrival of Purim, someone has written to Lookjed asking why our students are taught things like "to fulfill the Mitzva of ...
Dear All, I trust that your Pesach was Kasher VeSameach. I received this today, and thought that the site might be of interest to you. Kol Tuv, Shalom...
Can you get this site to work? ... From: "Shalom Berger" <lookjed@...> To: <Shaqla_veTarya@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:51 AM ...
Stuart Zweiter
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Apr 29, 2003 11:56 am
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Tryt using Netscape browser. The site works better w Netscape . For some reason it crashes Iexplorer Moshe Yeres ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...
Dear All, It will be a few days until this gets posted on Lookjed, so I thought that I would give the Gemara list first shot at it. Hag Sameach, Shalom ... ...
A good place to look at is the introduction of the Pre Megodim on the Halochos of Bosor Becholov. Also the Enciclopedia hatalmudit on Bosor Becholov is very...
Yisroel Frankforter
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Jun 4, 2003 8:47 pm
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Dear All, I received this Lookjed query today, and thought that some of you might have insight before it goes out to the list (with Tisha B'Av in Thursday, I...
Regading dropping the Mishna for more gemara: Most of my experience in teaching is at a high school level and I can say that, from my experience I have gleened...
Benjy Kramer
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Aug 4, 2003 6:28 pm
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Dear All, Here is another query that came in, but will not get posted until late next week. Any suggestions in the meanwhile? Kol Tuv, Shalom ... Date: Tue, 5...
At Flatbush, we have a hilchot tefillah curriculum for our freshmen and a small part of that is an inroduction to berachot. If you call our office, they can...
Benjy Kramer
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Aug 6, 2003 3:16 pm
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Dear All, Last December the Lookstein Center launched a website directed at Russian speaking Jewish educators - http://www.lookstein.org/russian/ Among its...
There is a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l on this idea. It can be found in Likutei Sichos vol. 15 p. 125. The point of the explanation is that R"E, saw...
Yisroel Frankforter
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Sep 17, 2003 6:35 pm
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I actually heard an excellent shiur by eliezer (lazer) Kwass this summer on that very agadeta. Its simplicity was its beauty. I gave the same shiur later in...
Benjy Kramer
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Sep 18, 2003 1:29 am
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... Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. If you like someone you are unlikely to think of them as ugly. Even if you do you don't dwell on it, let alone...
Shalom Carmy
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Sep 18, 2003 1:12 pm
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Just a thought. In the ancient world, there was an assumed correlation between physical beauty and wisdom (I came across this most recently in Louis Feldman's...
... Two notes: 1. Among the philosophers the lack of correlation is not unknown. Plato makes a great deal of Socrates being ugly yet fascinating. 2. The ugly...
Shalom Carmy
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Sep 21, 2003 3:33 pm
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... Can you blame him? Is there a possibility that REBS was reffering to the ugly man when he deduces from this experience "le'olam yehe adam rach kakaneh?" ...
Benjy Kramer
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Sep 21, 2003 3:57 pm
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Dear All, This in from my Russian colleague - Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 23:17:23 +0200 From: anna fein <feinan@...> To: Shalom Berger...
Rambam in his Hakdamah l'Mishneh Torah states as follows: Rabbbeinu HaKadosh (Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi) [received the teachings] from Rabbi Shimon his father; ...
Moshe Miller
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Oct 27, 2003 12:19 am
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Dear All, Another post that will not appear on Lookjed for a while (I am backlogged with queries right now). Any suggestions? Shalom ... Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003...
Dear All, I try not to repost from other lists, but this was too good to pass up. As an old fan of Jastrow, I found both of these posts (they appeared on the...
To Whom It May Concern, Shalom. My neighbor, Rabbi Yitzhak Zilber, wrote an article that might be of interest: "B'Inyan Mispar HaP'sukim, HaTevoth v'HaOthioth...
Marcia Frank
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Nov 16, 2003 9:43 pm
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Dear All, The Rabbi Zilber to whom Rabbi Frank referred is the same one who I mentioned in my Lookjed post ...
Dear All, Here is another question that has come in. Any suggestions? Shalom << Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:50:15 -0500 From: Shalvanathan@... Subject:...
The definitive scholarly edition on Masechet Kallah was published by Dr. Michael Higger in 1936, by Moinester Publishingh Co Brooklyn NY.(He published many of...
Dear All, My thanks for your help on these matters. This question came in, again, from our Russion desk. I assume that Shaul Stampfer has written on the ...
Dear All, Can anyone make suggestions for this query? Thanks, Shalom ... Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:01:38 -0500 From: Yakov Travis <yakovt@...> To: lookjed...
Dear All, Any suggestions on this one? Thanks, Shalom Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D. The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora Bar Ilan...
As I am not sure when this will make the Lookjed list, I thought that some of you might share your insights. Shabbat Shalom, Shalom Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger,...