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Showing posts with label Oral Torah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oral Torah. Show all posts
Friday, August 16, 2013

Bar Mitzvah – The Celebration of Obligation

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An adult Jew is obligated to obey the mitzvos —the commandments—and is held responsible for his or her actions. A child is not. At what poi...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Fundamental Beliefs of Judaism - The Thirteen Foundations of Maimonides

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About 800 years ago, Rabbi Moses Maimonides saw the need for a formal compilation of the most fundamental Jewish beliefs. The beliefs enum...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Lag BaOmer - What exactly are we celebrating?

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The Talmud ( Yevamos 62b) tells us that Rabbi Akiva had 12,000 pairs of disciples, all of whom passed away during the period from Pesach to ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

The Legitimacy of the Oral Torah

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One of the basic principles of Judaism is that when God gave the written text of the Torah to Moses at Sinai, He also gave over to Moses an ...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

Why Study Jewish History? Part 1 - As an Aid to Torah Study

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This is the first of a series of four posts on why the proper study of Jewish history is a very important part of the development of a true ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Poster of the Mesorah of the Oral Torah

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If you are about my age, this diagram may be familiar to you. It used to be found in many Chabad publications, and I assume that it was orig...