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Finding Sanctity
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by R. Gidon Rothstein Parshat Emor Three of the four comments I found for
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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
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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.
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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
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1925-26 broadside from European and EY rabbis, including the (late) Chafetz
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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
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Signing Off
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Taking the advice of my mentors and close friends, I’ve decided to bring
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The Conservative Mangling of the Word "Halachic"
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Rabbi Student astutely pointed out that because the meaning of 'halachic'
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Signing Off
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When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there
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The last straw was a recent joint event with a Reform group at which their leaders extolled the importance of accepting intermarried Jews into the community and not judging them harshly.
“There was no precipitating event. This has been mulled by the Moetzes for many months,” Shafran wrote. “I suspect they held off as long as they could in good conscience, in the hope that the new movement might backtrack on some of its positions and statements but finally decided that that simply was not happening.”
only question is what took them this long. Did something happen recently that was the last straw?
ReplyDeleteAny way Eytan Kobre has been doing the grunt work on this, very capably IMO, for years.
...and Avrohom Gorimer, over at cross-currents.com
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DeleteThe last straw was a recent joint event with a Reform group at which their leaders extolled the importance of accepting intermarried Jews into the community and not judging them harshly.
ReplyDeleteHow long ago? Link?
ReplyDelete“There was no precipitating event. This has been mulled by the Moetzes for many months,” Shafran wrote. “I suspect they held off as long as they could in good conscience, in the hope that the new movement might backtrack on some of its positions and statements but finally decided that that simply was not happening.”
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