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Jay Schottenstein, an Ohio business leader and philanthropist, has supported the translation and elucidation of the Talmud Bavli into English, Hebrew and French. The Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud is now utilized by more than 2 million people worldwide. Time.com
“I am bewildered”, says Rav Moshe Shternbuch, “that people are not midakdek to be mikayen the mitzva [of mishloach manos] that is a mitzva from the nevi’im.” Rabbeinu Chananel (Megila 7a) tells a story of Rebbi Yehuda Nesia who sent mishloach manos to Rav Hoshaya. He sent a thigh of veal and a bottle of […]
“The Talmud Berakhot 59b states: “He who sees the sun at its tekufah, the moon in its power, the stars [or planets] in their orbits, and the signs of the zodiac in their orderly progress, should say, ‘Blessed be the Maker of Creation’ .” The Talmud continues: “And when is that? Abbaye said: ‘Every twenty-eight […]
“The world’s first printed edition of the Talmud — nine 16th-century volumes that gather centuries of rabbinic debate on Jewish law — is now on view at Sotheby’s in New York. The so-called Bomberg Talmud — named after its Christian publisher, Daniel Bomberg — was printed in Hebrew and Aramaic […]
Would the current financial crisis have been avoided if traders followed Jewish traditions embodied in the Bible and the Talmud? Two scholars from the Conservative and Orthodox branches of the Judaism are suggesting just that. They also conclude that the tradition prescribes significant regulation to begin to redress the debacle. That may not be so exotic […]
“Since we are discussing the laws of the fast days and the subject of the Torah’s burning, we have written the following to commemorate what occurred in our times because of our many sins: the burning of our G-d’s Torah in the year 5004 [1244]4 of creation, on the sixth day of Parashas Chukkas when […]
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Available for the first time in English, “The Drama of Slavuta” draws on Jewish sources and official Tsarist government archives in providing insight into the shutdown of a major nineteenth-century Jewish printing establishment during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855), when the persecution of Jews and suppression of Jewish culture reached unprecedented heights […]
