Tzipora’s Tumor Fund
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"When can I go back already"? My heart breaks every time she pleads with
me, her face upturned and eyes hopeful. Her place is not on a hospital
bed, tube...
Finding Sanctity
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by R. Gidon Rothstein Parshat Emor Three of the four comments I found for
this time address how we bring kedushah into the world. While we usually
translat...
Surrounding Independence Day
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Surrounding Independence Day by Aaron Ahrend Dr. Aaron Ahrend, a senior
lecturer in the Department of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, has published
many stu...
Kedoshim – Looking Out for #1… and #2… and #3…
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“Love your fellow like yourself” (Vayikra 19:18) cannot be meant literally.
Ultimate concern for oneself is ingrained in our essences. There is a
strikin...
Pesach – Leaving the Imprisonment of Materialism
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Rav Itamar Schwartz, the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh Download a
number of Drashos on Pesach On Pesach, when we left Egypt, we left in
haste, and ...
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Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or
revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one
else h...
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1925-26 broadside from European and EY rabbis, including the (late) Chafetz
Chaim, Rav Kook, Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer, and others, against mechitzaless
sh...
Petition to relaunch the blog
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Adar 2 - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin
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As we have already begun the second month of Adar, and we all know that in
this month we are to increase joy and happiness, I’d like to share with you
a t...
Signing Off
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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...
The Conservative Mangling of the Word "Halachic"
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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 ...
Signing Off
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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...
This Blog Has Moved
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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 ...
And it worked too!
ReplyDeleteDid the Jewish owner also pray or was it only the gentile jockey?
ReplyDeletethere was once a thoroughbred racehorse named Sanhedrin
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Thanks all for the comments. I have no horse sense though, to reply intelligently to any of them.
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