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A Personal Testimony: The Light of Jesus Amid Talmudic Darkness

GlobalResearch 01 Jan 2025
There they introduced rabbinical commentaries that I had never heard of ... These are long folio pages with tiny print in the central columns surrounded on all sides by intricate rabbinical commentaries and explication.
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Orthodox Jewish Arizona council member uses family Bible for swearing-in ceremony

The American Israelite 20 Dec 2024
9, 2024 ... Steinsaltz, a chasidic rabbi who died at the age of 83 in August 2020, was one of the most well-known, modern-day commentators on Jewish scripture and rabbinical writings, best known for his Hebrew translation and commentary on the Talmud.
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Will 'AI Jesus' work? | Faith Forum

Reno Gazette Journal 18 Dec 2024
(including controversial topics), and offered responses based on Scripture ... Anthony Shafton, author and atheist thinker ... AI Jesus is at best dim ... The database would include three millennia of rabbinic commentary, responsa, inspiring stories and legends.
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‘Book detectives’ step up hunt for Jewish-owned works looted by the Nazis

CNN 11 Dec 2024
Eventually, six titles – among them religious texts and rabbinical commentaries – were repatriated in a ceremony in May 2022 ... in 1872 and dedicated to Jewish history, culture and rabbinical studies.
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In Dallas, these Jewish teens understand the appeal of gun ownership

Jewish Telegraph Agency 21 Nov 2024
Jewish men often accessorize with yarmulkes; Texan men sometimes accessorize with guns ... “If someone comes to kill you, rise and kill him first,” advises the Talmud (Sanhedrin 72a.4), the set of rabbinic commentaries that form the basis for Jewish law.
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USCCB president calls for ‘fervent prayer’ for peace in Holy Land, says ‘compassion is not ...

Catholic Standard 04 Oct 2024
... The Qur’an, 5.32),’” said Archbishop Broglio, citing similar passages from the Talmud, Judaism’s comprehensive collection of law and rabbinic commentaries; and the Quran, the sacred text of Islam.
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Productivity Is a Drag. Work Is Divine.

The Atlantic 18 Sep 2024
Melakhah connotes creative labor, according to early rabbinic commentaries on the biblical text ... Melakhah is most famous in rabbinic literature as being the overarching category for the 39 types of work that are forbidden on the Jewish Sabbath.
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Opinion: Living in Los Angeles helped me discover what being Jewish meant to me

The Los Angeles Times 13 Sep 2024
Elu v’elu ... But in an un-air-conditioned room of a community center one hot night, I traced my fingers over layers of rabbinic interpretation and the ancient code of Jewish law, each insight built on the other. Elu v’elu, these commentaries, and those ... .
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What is love? - Israel Today

Israel Today 19 Aug 2024
The story is recorded in the book of Judges, chapters 19-21 ... When I read the many rabbinic commentaries, I see the supposed bright spots that the sages found, but it feels to me that they really forced their interpretation on the text ... On the contrary.
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The value of victory

Israel Hayom 08 Aug 2024
1 ... I am currently reading the Midrash Rabbah of the Book of Lamentations, rabbinic commentaries collected around the fifth century CE but which also includes earlier commentaries. 2 ... David, Asa, Yehoshafat, and Hezekiah. David said ... God) said to him ... 3 ... 4.
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Instead of the Ten Commandments, let's teach Hebrew to schoolchildren in Louisiana

Chicago Sun-Times 23 Jun 2024
" />. Children aren't born religious. They have to be taught ... Columnists In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary. The Talmud consists of dozens of books of rabbinic commentary on Jewish law.
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Gerson: Celebrating 50 years as a rabbi and the blessings that came from it

Athens Banner-Herald 01 Jun 2024
I have recently been honored by my national rabbinic organizations and by my synagogue, Congregation Children of Israel, here in Athens ... To pursue this query, I turn to the Talmud, the classic rabbinic commentary from 2,000 years ago.
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‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’

New York Magazine 15 May 2024
It has always been porous, influenced by the world around it, changing according to thousands of years’ worth of commentaries, rabbinical answers to congregants’ queries, exile, disaster, and time.
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Why This Night Is Different From All Other Nights

The American Spectator 22 Apr 2024
... tracing the Biblical narrative, offering some classical rabbinical commentary, reminding us that in every generation there are those who mean to harm us, but G-d ultimately saves us from their hands.
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Gerson: For Passover, celebrate those brave enough to take the first step

Athens Banner-Herald 05 Apr 2024
In two weeks, we Jews welcome one of our truly great holidays, Passover ... It is time to go forward, into the water." ... The Midrash, the Rabbinic commentary, relates that this man, Nachshon, of the tribe of Judah, takes the first step into the water.

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