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The History of Pastrami (video) - How did the pastrami sandwich become such an icon of American Jewish food? Learn more from The Nosher. ------------------------------------------------...
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When to Say Malei - by R. Gil Student I. Days Without Malei The Mishnah (Mo’ed Katan 27a) discusses when we eulogize someone before burial and when refrain from doing so. On d...6 hours ago
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The Illusion of Perfection - The Torah is written in the language of humans, and storytelling is one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Some parts of the Torah are communicated in the ...12 hours ago
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Over-sized Truck Tumbles Down Embankment - A video went viral of an over-sized semi-truck sliding down an embankment in California, and miraculously, the driver was not injured. It happened on Thurs...
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What’s Not Necessarily in a Name - Unless you happen to live in California’s 50th Congressional district, which encompasses parts of San Diego County and Riverside County in the south of t...1 day ago
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Saying Over What I Said At My Mother A"H's Levaya - This is what I spoke about at my mother a"h's levaya this past Sunday night. Then, it was probably incoherent. I repeated it this afternoon as I was sittin...
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Ritual for orthodox Jewish men may offer cardiovascular health benefits, study suggests - A pilot study led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine suggests Jewish men who practice wearing tefillin, which involves...2 days ago
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Full Of Bull - BULL In the Torah months have no names. They are numbered (1st, 2nd etc.) except for ניסן which is called ...2 days ago
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Believing and not believing – Parshas Noach - By Ben Tzion Shafier “And Noach, his sons, and his wife came with him because of the waters of the flood.” — Bereishis 7:7 HASHEM told Noach that his ent...4 days ago
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Young Rabbis and All About Olives - *Young Rabbis and All About Olives* Marc B. Shapiro I am currently working on a book focused on the thought of R. Kook, in particular his newly released p...
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Agudah launches "The Yom Hashishi Torah Video Series" - When describing Hashem completion of creation, the Torah says, “vayehi erev vayehi boker yom Hashishi - And it was evening and it was morning The sixth d...1 week ago
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Dvar Torah - Bireishis - from Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to begin a new cycle of Torah reading, beginning with the portion of Bireishis. The portion teaches us what was created every d...1 week ago
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Nusach Ashkenaz in the Center of Chasidic Davening: The Interesting Cases of Belz, Sanz, and Berdichev – נוסח אשכנז במרכז תפילות חסידים: נוסחאות בעלזא, צאנז, וברדיטשוב - As is well known, one of the major dividing lines between Chasidim and non-Chasidim, and a source of tension at times, is in the area of נוסח התפילה. While...3 weeks ago
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Knock, knock... - Who's there? *A ditty so pretty it can revive a dead and buried blog! * Ahhhhhh! I'll just leave this here and head back to the different job, differen...
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Signing Off - Taking the advice of my mentors and close friends, I’ve decided to bring this unpopular blog to a close. I can imagine that many people will be very happy ...
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A Cosmic Hatred - Introduction to his month’s Zman magazine A Cosmic Hatred In our cover story, Bassem Eid offers a surprising angle on the Arab-Israeli conflict: “The first...2 years ago
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One Picture + Three Words ... - *... is worth more to Havdala-Qedushah consciousness than 600+ posts.* Priceless, just priceless.
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The Conservative Mangling of the Word "Halachic" - Rabbi Student astutely pointed out that because the meaning of 'halachic' (or 'kosher' or 'rabbi' isn't trademarked, it is wide open to mean anything you ...3 years ago
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Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...6 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...7 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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