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Over there on the other place I was blocked this week. It's not the first time...won't be the last. This time the person let me know why they were blocking me...why they couldn't stomach my posts...
You see they blocked me because of my posts...
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On Dec.16th, we went to Colorado. While we were there we went snow tubing, ice skating, snowmobiling,and skiing! Every thing was so much fun but my favorite thing was tubing.
The first day in Colorado we stayed the night in Colorado Springs...
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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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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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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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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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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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We have previously discussed the rise of the Lithuanian Yeshivot. The analytic methods of the Tosafot of medieval France and Germany had developed in Lithuania and surrounding areas into a new way of life. Large yeshivot arose in the early...
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It is perhaps one of the great tragedies of Judaism, that in popular consciousness, Purim is seen as a children's holiday. It is in many ways the most profound of our celebrations. The Talmud contains an entire tractate on Purim, besides having...
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Let's put the Purim story into historical context. The Jews had been exiled to Babylon in about 586 BCE. (Rabbinic tradition maintains a later date). The Prophet Jeremiah predicted that the dominion of Babylon would only last another 70 years. In...
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