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Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism Part 11
Thursday December 21 2017, 2:35 PM Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism
Throughout the nineteenth century, he pilpul method of study became more and more refined, with several different schools arising with variations on methodology. But other movements threatened. Hassidism, with its emphasis on spirituality and...
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Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism Part 12
Thursday December 21 2017, 2:35 PM Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism
In my previous post, I outlined the birth of the Musar approach. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter wrote little, but urged the implementation of Musar study by scholars and laymen alike. Musar literature was a vast, largely untapped resource, that needed to...
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Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism Part 13
Thursday December 21 2017, 2:37 PM Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism
The mid to late 1960s, into the mid-1970s, saw the rise of a new movement. It's initial form has all but faded, but its influence is still keenly felt. Perhaps more important is what its implications are for the entire Jewish community, including...
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Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism Part 14
Thursday December 21 2017, 2:37 PM Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism
A hallmark of the Hippie movement was "The Whole Earth Catalog". It showed how to be self-reliant in building your own furniture, home repair, growing crops, etc. It also had lists of places where tools could be bought, and skills learned. The...
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Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism Part 15
Thursday December 21 2017, 2:38 PM Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism
As the idea of the Havurah movement became more mainstream in the mid 1970s, interest in communes was dwindling. Some Havurot became places for prayer and study meetings, with the members living independently. Some were welcomed as separate groups...
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The PreRecorded Rabbi
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:09 PM PreRecorded Rabbi
When I studied European History in college, I was very surprised to learn that in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, a major target of the Catholic Church was, of all things, Bible Societies. In fact, Pope Gregory XVI issued an encyclical in...
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The Yemenites Part 1
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:04 PM Yemenites
There have been many classic (and not so classic) movies about lands forgotten by time. People living in the Stone Age, Vikings whose culture has survived in tact in the Arctic, ancient civilizations long hidden in the Amazon, were all parts of...
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The Yemenites Part 2
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:05 PM Yemenites
A non-Yemenite rabbi whose name will forever be associated with that community is Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), known and beloved by the Jewish world by the acrostic RAMBAM, but by the Yemenites simply as Rabbenu (our rabbi, our teacher). He is...
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The Yemenites Part 3
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:06 PM Yemenites
Maimonides was faced with a difficult choice. Should he risk his position...and his life...in order to respond to the pleas from Yemen? Would his intervention really accomplish anything? He finally decided that he must save a Jewish community from...
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The Yemenites Part 4
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:07 PM Yemenites
For many years after Maimonides, the Yemenite community followed his path both in Halachah (Jewish law), which, as we have seen, was very close to their own ancient practices, and in his philosophical approach to Jewish theology. Beginning in the...
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The Yemenites Part 5
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:07 PM Yemenites
Perhaps the most impressive Yemenite event is a wedding, together with the prenuptial celebrations. About a week before a wedding, the bride and groom attend a "Henna" celebration. This tradition is common in the Middle East among Muslims, and is...
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The Yemenites Part 6
Saturday December 2 2017, 11:08 PM Yemenites
While in Yemen, the Jews kept Talmudic wedding traditions which have long since died out in other communities. However, in Israel, and other lands in which Yemenites have settled, many of these traditions have gone by the wayside, in favor of...
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The Yemenites Part 7
Saturday December 2 2017, 10:55 PM Yemenites
This part is difficult for me to write, and will be difficult for many to hear. If you are offended, I am sorry. These are facts. Israel was founded as a Socialist Paradise, for European, secular Jews. David Ben Gurion, the head of the Jewish...
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The Yemenites Part 8
Saturday December 2 2017, 10:53 PM Yemenites
All in all, some 4,500 Yemenite children "died" in hospitals from the late 1940s until the mid 1950s. Bodies were never returned to families. This also happened to other Mizrahi (Eastern) Jews,. as well as those from the Balkans, albeit on a...
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The Yemenites Part 9
Saturday December 2 2017, 10:52 PM Yemenites
Things have gone much better for the Yemenites after the 1950s. Many have "made it" in Israeli life, becoming businessmen, merchants, writers, even politicians. Ironically, although Yemenites and other Mizrahi Jews have political views that are...
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