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Showing posts with label Jewish History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish History. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Rise of Heresy - The Hellenistic Jews and the Sadducees

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The following material, which was originally written for a Jewish history class in a yeshiva high school, is basically a direct continuatio...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Shimon HaTzadik

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שמעון הצדיק היה משירי כנסת הגדולה, הוא היה אומר, על שלשה דברים העולם עומד: על התורה ועל העבודה ועל גמילות חסדים. Shimon the Tzadik was ...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Interruption of the Tamid Sacrifice

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One of the tragic events of the 17 th of Tamuz was the interruption of the korban tamid  (the daily offering of two sheep in the Temple)....
Friday, January 4, 2013

On the Popularity of the Mesillas Yesharim

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One of the most influential and popular seforim  (Jewish religious works) ever written is the mussar (ethical) work, Mesillas Yeshar...
Monday, December 10, 2012

On Ambiguities in Jewish History - A Correspondence with a Concerned Reader

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I recently received an e-mail from a reader, Chanie, who was legitimately concerned about an aspect of an earlier post  of mine. With her p...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Shimon HaTzadik's Three Pillars and the Greek Shmad

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There is a famous midrashic passage that discusses the second verse of the Torah: והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על פני תהום ורוח אלקים מרחפת ע...