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Mothers Day
129 Views•May 11, 2024•Mothers Day
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Jewish Sociology Notes: The Consecration of Jewish Identity as Symbolic Construction of the Collective - ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש
570 Views•September 8, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Am Yisrael,Peoplehood,Chosen People,Social Theory,Jewish Studies,Jewish Sociology
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The Cow That Kept Shabbat (Pesikta Rabbati 14:1)
1275 Views•November 26, 2023•5784 Sefaria Collection•Animals of Midrash
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Animals of Midrash 🐒🐈🐄
1891 Views•January 2, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Mussar (מוּסָר ),Animal Cruelty,Midrash,Animals,Nature,Parables,Inspiration,Ecology,Drashah,Talmud
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Respite from Distraction: The Baal Shem Tov on Shabbat
423 Views•December 18, 2024•Baal Shem Tov•Hesech Hadaat,Yaakov Yosef of Polnoye,Chasidism,Distraction,Forgetting,Hasidism,Memory,Shabbat,Baal Shem Tov
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Don't Destroy the World on Account of Fools: The Roman Jewish Community's Policy of Pragmatism
805 Views•February 20, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Pacifism,Resistance,Safety,Communal Needs,Security,Self Defense,Antisemitism,Jew-Hatred,Community,Public Policy
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אישתיק עזה
1799 Views•December 26, 2023•5784 Hostage Crisis•Vespasian,Gaza,Rabbi Akiva,Midrash,Jerusalem
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Four Domains of Shabbat as Competing Models of Political Order
522 Views•June 19, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Sociology,Political Science,Anthropology,Shabbat,Political Thought,Four Domains
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The Fishpond (Taanit 24a)
1254 Views•April 13, 2023•Talmudic Reflexivity•Equality,Sura,Tuition,Miracles,Humility,Taanit,Fasting,Rav,Drought,Social Justice,Teachers,Poverty,A Bride for One Night
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Reflexivity on the Genocide of Amalek in Esther Rabbah
833 Views•November 6, 2022•Talmudic Reflexivity•Purim,Mordechai,Reflexivity,Haman,Esther,Amalek
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The Queen's Ransom
1485 Views•November 2, 2023•A Midrash Theatre Company•Redeeming Captives,Hostages,Rav Yosef,Captivity,Abaye,King Shapur
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Ancient Jewish Theatre Workshop (Limmud Oz - Sydney 2024)
627 Views•June 6, 2024•A Midrash Theatre Company•Midrash Theatre Company,Theaters,Midrash,Limmud,Ancient Jewish Theatre
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דברה תורה כלשון בני אדם
1132 Views•May 17, 2022
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Bat/Bayit (Megillah 13a)
290 Views•June 16, 2024•Mordechai,Chasidut,Kabbalah,Megilat Esther,Ahasuerus and Esther,Chabad
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The Term "Society" in Tanakh
515 Views•May 18, 2024•Society,Jewish Sociology,Translation,Anthropology,Sociology,Jewish Anthropology
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How Do Humans Evolve? (Rashab's Kuntres Umaayon, Maamer 1 / Overcoming Folly, Treatise 1)
804 Views•July 15, 2023•Chasidut,Abraham and Sarah, Hasidism,Lubavitch,Middot,Satan,Chabad,Joel,Acacia,Knowledge of God,Folly
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Notes on Ruth Calderon's "A Bride for One Night"
338 Views•May 1, 2023•Rav Nachman,Rav,Ruth Calderon
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Social Roles in Proverbs - The Mother (Jewish Sociology)
709 Views•April 27, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Jewish Sociology,Sociology,Mother,Jewish Anthropology,Anthropology,Social Roles,Families,Parents,Wisdom,Parenting,Poetic Wisdom,Roles,Honoring Parents
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Cats of Midrash
2015 Views•January 3, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Animals,Midrash,Lions,Cats
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Baal Shem Tov on the Pursuit of Truth and Wisdom
1162 Views•February 4, 2024•Baal Shem Tov•Chasidut,Mashal,Baal Shem Tov,Parables,Knowledge of God,Knowledge,Ignorance,Wisdom, Hasidism
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The Holy Warden & the Saintly Clowns
464 Views•December 7, 2022•Elijah,Unorthodox
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Mr Horrible's Seedy Theatre House (Talmud Yerushalmi, Taanit 1:4)
1041 Views•August 14, 2022•Comedy,Theatre,Pidyon Shevuyim,Rabbi Abbahu,Pantokaka
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The Chasid and the Ghosts (Berakhot 18b with introduction)
1047 Views•September 6, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company
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Purim: A Celebration of Textuality
247 Views•March 6, 2023•Harold Fisch,Megilla,Purim
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A Golden Chicken and a Man Eating Rabbit (Tales of Foolish Authoritarians)
1103 Views•October 25, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Hadrian,Midrash Theatre Company,Nebuchadnezzar,Alexander the Great,Midrash,Authority,Power,Authoritarianism,Zedekiah
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The Bat Kol & Emperor Caligula
1078 Views•March 26, 2022•Shimon HaTzaddik,Talmud,Sadducees,Romans,Caligula
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Pre-Historic Creatures of Midrash
1646 Views•January 3, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Animals
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Fusing Midrash on Purim with a Chasidic Ethos
833 Views•February 23, 2023•Baal Shem Tov•Baal Shem Tov,Midrash,Spirituality,Chasidut
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Rabbis Down Under: Exploring Australian Values Through a Jewish Lens
545 Views•January 24, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Jewish Values,An Australian Midrash,Colonisation,Larrikin,Rabbis Down Under,Colonialization,Terra Nullius,Mateship,Values,Australia,Australian Jews,Larrikinism,Down Under
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7 Accounts of Kidnapping & Hostage Taking in Genesis
953 Views•January 14, 2024•5784 Sefaria Collection•Rebekah,Abimelech and Sarah,Genesis,Pharaoh and Sarah,Sarah,Joseph,Joseph and Benjamin,Joseph in Egypt,Dinah,Yosef,Abraham and Lot,Binyamin,Shimon,Benjamin,Kidnapping (גנבת נפש),Lot,Hostages,Yoseph,Joseph and His Brothers,Rivkah
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Moses vs The Angel of Death
4123 Views•June 13, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Aaron's Death,Angel of Death,Moses and Aaron,Moses,Midrash Theater,Midrash Thatre Company
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The Tree(s) of Life & Knowledge
3876 Views•January 18, 2022•5784 Sefaria Collection•Aggada,Midrash,The Tree of Knowledge,Tree of Life
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Terra Nullius / ארץ לא־איש
831 Views•October 4, 2023•5784 Sefaria Collection•Terra Nullius,Colonisation,No Man's Land,Politics,Australia,Colonization
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Avraham's Friends and Allies: Mamre, Eshkol, & Aner
1571 Views•October 31, 2023•Aner,Mamre,Eshkol,Jewish People,Hostages,Kidnapping,Kidnapping (גנבת נפש),Abraham,Allies,Friendship,Abraham and Lot
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Yalta: The Story Arc of a Rabbinic Woman
2633 Views•December 21, 2022•Talmudic Reflexivity•Literary Devices,Reflexivity,Yalta,Ulla,Narrative Texts,Women Rabbis,Healers,Chasid,Darshan,Feminists,Pious,Rav Amram,Midrash,Aggada,Midrash Theatre Company,Rav Nachman
Save "Sheet 454889"
Joshua ben Hananiah and the Ivory Tower
1311 Views•October 26, 2022•Talmudic Reflexivity•Joshua Ben Hananiah,Criticism,Reflexivity,Self-Critique,Yehoshua Ben Chananya
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Rabbi Yannai and Mr Fancypants
1002 Views•October 26, 2022•Talmudic Reflexivity
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The Demon & the Diplomat (Tales from the Talmudic Underworld) 😈😈😈
763 Views•September 24, 2022•Abaye,Antisemitism,Angels,Rome,Poverty,Ben Temalyon,Reuven Ben Isterobeli,Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai,Demons,Rabbi Elazar Bar Yossi
Save "Sheet 433907"
Peleimu vs Satan (Midrash Theatre Company)
1505 Views•March 29, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Satan,Yom Kippur,Peleimu,Hospitality,Manners,Etiquette
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Elazar ben Shimon and the Ivory Tower
932 Views•October 26, 2022•Talmudic Reflexivity•Reflexivity,Talmudic Reflexivity,Rabbi Elazar Ben Shimon
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The Trial of God and the Execution of Isaiah
1411 Views•April 28, 2022•The Trial of God,Prophets,Isaiah,Prophecy,Ben Azzai,God,Heresy,Theodicy,Elie Wiesel
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Bat Kol: The Voice of Heaven in Rabbinic Literature
3537 Views•December 31, 2021•Divine Voices,Bat Kol,Prophecy
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The "Evil Spirit" in Tanakh / רוח רעה בתנ"ך
1505 Views•November 20, 2023•Evil Spirits,Spirit,Tanakh,Translation,Evil Spirit,Spirits,Evil
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The Midrash and the Moon
1145 Views•June 19, 2023•Creation,Midrash,Reish Lakish,Shimon Ben Pazi,Yehoshua Ben Levi,Shimon Ben Pazzi,Moon,Aggada,Dirshuni
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The Test of the Worthy Disciple (Talmudic Puzzles at Random)
151 Views•November 14, 2022•Tests,Talmudic Puzzles,Literary Devices
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Double those who left Egypt / כפלים כיוצאי מצרים
859 Views•August 23, 2023•Alexandria
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The Satan Clause & Other Angel of Death Tales (Midrash Theatre Company)
1317 Views•February 15, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Gemara,Art,Aggada,Comedy,Chad the Intern,Theaters,Angel of Death,Drama,Beit Midrash,Midrash Theatre Company,Midrash Theater Company,Death,Midrash,Malach Hamavet
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The Rabbis and the Guilds
59 Views•August 19, 2023•Professions,Rome,Vocations,Alexandria,Egypt,Social Stratification,Guilds,History
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Rivka bat Ḥanina (An Experiment in Aggadah)
1110 Views•May 9, 2023•A Midrash Theatre Company•Midrash Theatre Company,Beruriah,Bruriah,Rabbi Meir,Midrash,Aggada
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The Or HaChaim on Girls' Education
478 Views•June 29, 2023•Women and Mitzvot,Hakhel,Education,Daughters,Torah,Chabad,Lubavitch
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The Hungry Dogs of Jerusalem (A Talmudic Play)
1195 Views•August 5, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Angels,Midrash Theatre Company,King David,Midrash,King Solomon,Bathsheba,David and Batsheva,David and the Temple,Theatre
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My Grandmother, the Kabbalist
550 Views•June 3, 2022•Midrash,Midrash Rabbah,Bubby,Astronomy,Cosmology,Alexander the Great,Alexander,Rabbi Yonah,Shtetl,Midrash Theatre Company
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The (mostly) Animal Stages of Life
2238 Views•May 8, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Child Raising,Lifecycle,Childhood,Stages of Life,Midrash,Animals,Animals of Midrash
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The Need for Jewish Reconciliation: The Maharal's Theory of Charity & Redemption
607 Views•February 21, 2023•Jerusalem,Mercy,Exile,Maharal,Redemption,Galus,Aggada,Forgiveness,Tzedakah
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The Baal Shem Tov's Commentary on Talmud: Tractate Megillah
1854 Views•November 22, 2021•Baal Shem Tov•Baal Shem Tov,Megillah,Chabad,Chasidut,Talmud
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Halacha vs Aggadah/Midrash - Abraham Joshua Heschel
1238 Views•September 19, 2022•Abraham Joshua Heschel,Aggada,Halacha,Midrash
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Torah of the Shuk: The Market as a Site for Ethical Learning in Midrash and Aggadah
1128 Views•March 8, 2023•5784 Sefaria Collection•Tavi,Literary Devices,Yom Kippur Eve,Aggada,Tzedakah,Yom Kippur,Marketplace,Miracles,Midrash,Charity,Market,Midrash Theatre Company,Rome,Kiddush Hashem,Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel
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Talmudic Ghost Stories (Berakhot 18b)
1455 Views•August 31, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Ghosts,Midrash Theatre Company
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The Friends We Made Along the Way (Eruvin 53b)
1473 Views•September 28, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Drama,Women,Girls,Boys,Burnt Food,Midrash Theatre Company,Midrash,Yehoshua Ben Chananya,Culinary,Life,Death,Beans,Etiquette,Rabbis,Salty Beans,Aging,Salt,Debates
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Planet of the Apes and Other Jewish Legends
723 Views•October 13, 2022•Apes,Midrash,Monkeys
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The Swooning Souls at Sinai
757 Views•February 17, 2023•A Midrash Theatre Company•Midrash Theatre,Midrash Har Sinai,The Swooning Souls of Sinai,Har Sinai,Joshua Ben Levi,Mount Sinai,Midrash Theatre Company
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Communicators (Avot 5:7)
1216 Views•May 6, 2023•Fools,Wisdom,Hillel,Communication,Hillel and Shammai
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The Inner Drama of Yonah the Prophet
623 Views•October 5, 2022•Neviim,Prophets,Yonah,Prophecy,Teshuvah,Jonah,Tarshish,Navi,Nineveh
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The Two Crowns at Sinai
1293 Views•May 4, 2022•Aggada,Moses and the Torah,Mount Sinai,Sinai,Midrash,Crowns
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Hannah & the Stranger: A Talmudic Tale
302 Views•January 22, 2023•Stories,Literary Devices,Children of Israel
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Joshua ben Levi's Midrash Har Sinai
973 Views•May 16, 2022•Shavuot,Joshua Ben Levi,Mount Sinai,Midrash Theatre Company,Aggada,Angels,Moses,Midrash,Satan,Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi
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The Farmhand from Peki'in (A Talmudic Play)
849 Views•April 24, 2023•A Midrash Theatre Company•Midrash Theatre Company
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Deciphering the Jewish Birth Amulet
5262 Views•November 16, 2021•Demons,Sorcery,Medicine,Chabad,Magic,Childbirth,Birth,Kabbalah,Lilith,Angels
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Philo's Tanakh: The Case of Sarah's Name
367 Views•August 14, 2022•Midrash,Philo,Sarah,Tanakh
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The Raatan Virus (A Talmudic Drama)
1680 Views•July 28, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Talmud Theater,Yehoshua Ben Levi,Joshua Ben Levi,Midrash Theatre Company
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Amram the Pious: Toward an Expanded Profile
2027 Views•January 3, 2023•Talmudic Reflexivity•Rav Amram Chasida,Amram the Pious,Talmudic Reflexivity,Rav Nachman,Yalta,Rabbi Amram,Rav,Rav Amram,History,Reflexivity
Save "Sheet 456695"
Elazar and the Magic Wheatstalk
902 Views•March 8, 2023•Talmudic Reflexivity•Talmudic Reflexivity,Weddings,Wheat,Taanit,Miracles,Charity,Midrash Theatre Company,Magic
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Threat Level Midrash (Esther Rabbah)
972 Views•February 18, 2022•Slaves,Midrash Rabbah,Homiletical Exegesis,Midrash,Danger,Devarim,Risk Management,Destruction,Book of Esther,Romans,Exile,Slavery,Threat Assessment,Genocide,Holocaust,Threat Levels
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Dogs of Midrash
2190 Views•January 3, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Talmud,Animals,Nature,Midrash,Dogs
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The Oven of Akhnai and the Anxiety of Rabbinic Authority
1529 Views•January 14, 2023•Talmudic Reflexivity•Traditions,Academic Talmud,Takkanot,Christine Hayes,Rabbinic Authority,Mesorah,Midrash Halacha,Reflexivity,Oven of Akhnai,Talmudic Reflexivity
Save "Sheet 459635"
The Jewish Temple... in Egypt? 🐪🐪🐪
79 Views•September 22, 2022•History,Shimon HaTzaddik,Temple,Egypt,Rabbi Yehuda,Rabbi Meir
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Giants and the Jews: An Overview
422 Views•September 5, 2022•Bashan,King Og,Giants,Og,Anakim,Abba Shaul
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The Rainmaker Family (Choni HaMe'aggel)
685 Views•August 11, 2022•Miracles,Choni HaMe'aggel,Chasidut,Choni HaMagel,Rain,Onais the Circle Maker,Honi HaMagel,Prayer
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Talmudic Cancel Culture
606 Views•August 4, 2022
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Kahana's Defense League (A Cautionary Tale)
1827 Views•August 21, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Informers (מוֹסֵר ),Rabbi Yochanan,Rabbi Yochanan (Hanapacha) and Rabbi Shimon B. Lakish (Reish Lakish),Murder,Mesira,Theft, Robbery and Murder,Rabbi Kahana
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Caught Between Jewish Mobsters & the Roman Army
488 Views•July 26, 2022•Jerusalem,Politics,Yochanan Ben Zakkai,9th of Av,Yavneh,Extremism
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A Pharisee, a Sadducee and an Essene Walk Into a Bar...
823 Views•July 11, 2022•Humor,Cross Denominational
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Depatriarchalization in the Talmud (Daf Reactions: Yevamot 106)
588 Views•June 22, 2022•Reish Lakish,Yibum,Divorce,Women in Tanakh,Rav Pappa,Daf Reactions,Abaye,Blackmail,Yevama,Rabbi Chiya,Rabbi Chiyya Bar Abba,Rabbi Yochanan,Patriarchy,Depatriarchalization,Women in the Talmud
Save "Sheet 415381"
The Four Small but Wise Creatures (Proverbs 30:24-28)
1758 Views•July 1, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Animals of Midrash,Persia,Four Species,Small Creatures,Rome,Insects,Sukkot,Ahasuerus and Esther,Babylonian Exile,Greece,Animals
Save "Sheet 417158"
More Adventures of Joshua ben Levi (Midrash Theatre Company)
1844 Views•March 17, 2022•A Midrash Theatre Company•Yehoshua Ben Levi,Midrash,Joshua Ben Levi,Aggada
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A Talmud Typology of Torah Teachers
763 Views•April 22, 2022•Leadership,Categories,Lists,Typologies,Talmud,Torah Scholar
Save "Sheet 401043"
Simchat Bat / Zeved Habat Ceremony Guide
3787 Views•December 15, 2021•Simchat Bat,Baby Girl,Baby Naming Ceremony,Zeved Habat
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The Phoenix at Elim
348 Views•April 14, 2022•Phoenix,Animals of Midrash
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Magical Creatures in Midrash
1744 Views•January 3, 2022•Animals of Midrash•Midrash,Dragons,Animals,Phoenix,Magic
Save "Sheet 373342"
Knowledge vs Action / Torah vs Mitzvot
1507 Views•February 2, 2022•Musar,Torah,Pirkei Avot,Tikkun Olam,Mitzvot,Chasidut
Save "Sheet 380852"
The Astrology Sugya (Shabbat 156)
1273 Views•January 18, 2022•Birthday,Horoscopes,Mazal,Astrology
Save "Sheet 376853"
Pathway of the Upstanders (Introduction) - A Guide to the Ramchal's Mesilat Yesharim
544 Views•November 14, 2021•Mussar (מוּסָר ),Ramchal,Jewish Thought,Theory of Judaism,Mesilat Yesharim
Save "Sheet 362361"
Duties of the Hearts by Bakhya ibn Pekudah (Introduction) English translation with comments
1667 Views•September 17, 2021•Avodat Hashem,Tradition,Study Guide,Spirituality,Jewish Thought,Mesorah,Theory of Judaism,History of Rabbinic Writings
Save "Sheet 347806"
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