Monday, June 29, 2009

Biocentric?

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At the moment there are only four explanations for this mystery. The first two give us little to work with from a scientific perspective. On...
Friday, June 26, 2009

The Intersection between Simple Faith and the Path of Reason

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Recently Reb Harry at Emes v'Emunah posted on the issue of Emunah Peshuta in the face of challenges to faith. Insofar as I envisioned ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

אגלי טל Iglei Tal: Table of Contents

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Preface/הקדמה Introduction/פתיחה Sowing/זורע Plowing/חורש Reaping/קוצר Gathering/מעמר Threshing/דש Winnowing/זורה Sorting/בורר Grinding/טוחן...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Stephen Tyrone Johns

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His service and sacrifice is appreciated. May his friends and family find comfort. Photo from CNN.com

Columbus' Prophecy?

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In the new issue of Discovery (July/August 2009) there is an article called 20 Things You Didn't Know About Eclipses by LeeAundra Temes...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

An Academic Look at Oral Transmission

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In response to L's suggestion that I seek out the opinion of Profesor Yaakov Elman on the topic of trimming nails I decided to find out ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Machzikei HaDas more popular than Hirhurim?

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ClustrMaps are great! From Iran I've received as many hits as "On the Main Line" and "Hirhurim" combined! I have als...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Rav Moshe Feinstein zt'l on Davening with a Nusach S'fard Minyan

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In response to our post Rav Chaim Berlin zt'l on Chassidim one of our most prolific commentors, L, suggested that davening with chassidi...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

A Ba'al HaBayis

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Each day a person is obligated to study written Torah, which is the Tanakh, Mishnah, Gemara, and Poskim. And a Ba'al HaBayis, who only s...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Circumcision and Jewish Survival

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Julius Wellhausen, "redactor" of the Document Hypothesis wrote on the closing page of his magnum opus Prolegomena to the History o...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Interesting Article: "Source of Hebrew Month Duration: Babylonian Science or Ancient Tradition" by Morris Engelson

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On the previous post Micha commented: Another example to the one under discussion is the Babylonian calendar. Articles on the Jewish Calenda...

Trimming Nails

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Just an initial reaction, Recently I ran across the following: Further, Rava’s permissive stance…had a Zoroastrian demonological belief at i...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Critique of Rabbi Jeremy Wieder's "When the Torah Doesn't Mean What it Says"

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It is by no means a secret that allegorical interpretation plays a central role in traditional Jewish belief. Nor is it some obscure fact th...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Ferliihcin Prium

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Chvraiem, Rsbaoai, I jsut wnaetd to tkae the tmie to wsih you and yruos a filrichen Pruim and to amdinsoh you to awayls be smaech rsepnislob...
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Stalin and Purim

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(Last year I posted the following comment [which I have edited very little] at Cross-Currents:) Other times, the Adar coincidences are mor...