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The TorahJournal Blog: Why did Bereishis take 6 Days and 10 ma’amaros?
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Sunday, November 11, 2012. Why did Bereishis take 6 Days and 10 ma’amaros? Why did the Torah start with Bereishis? Why did the Torah spell out so much more about history afterwards? But why did it need to go through the 6 days of creation? Why can’t the Torah just say God created the world and move on? Rather to take retribution fr...
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The TorahJournal Blog: Drinking on Purim
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Two years ago, a popular blog wrote. Claiming to be following the rema, “There is no mitzva to get drunk on purim“. This is the actual halacha in the Shulchan Aruch:. חייב אינש לבסומי בפוריא עד דלא ידע בין ארור המן לברוך מרדכי. דאין צריך להשתכר כל כך. 8230; ויש אומרים. Rema – Some say. Drunk A yesh om...
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The TorahJournal Blog: Should A Terrorist Be Released For A Soldier's Remains?
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Thursday, February 19, 2009. Should A Terrorist Be Released For A Soldier's Remains? This was YU's assigned essay choice. Most of the arguments in the essay also apply to the exchange of terrorists for a live soldier. YU Honors Essay A1. Should A Terrorist Be Released For A Soldier's Remains? And certainly not a high ransom. Re...
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The TorahJournal Blog: The Blessing Over Bad
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Saturday, January 31, 2009. The Blessing Over Bad. Based on my YU Honors Essay. The Blessing Over Bad. Monotheism, Providence and the End of Days. If instead, we considers the bad that befalls us as chance, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. "If you go with me randomly I will go with you with the wrath of randomness" When t...
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The TorahJournal Blog: New Talmudica Post
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Monday, May 18, 2009. Because this past week's parsha discussed Jewish slaves, I decided to publish some Talmudica charts on the topic. I also published some selected ha'aros from my old talmudica pages. Just visit Talmudica. The old pages are still at geocities and can also be accessed at theses links: 29-33. This is Joshua from.
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The TorahJournal Blog: Science vs. Scientism
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Science vs. Scientism. In a recent editorial in the. Entitled “ God and Science Don’t Mix. 8221;, the cosmologist Lawrence Krauss argued that science implies atheism, or at least Deism. His argument can be summarized as follows:. Science tries to explain nature without calling on miracles or Divine Providence.
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The TorahJournal Blog: Talmud Torah
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. I am beginning a new blog series which will discuss The Written and Oral Torah, learning Torah, and maybe education. These posts will be based on some notes I’ve had sitting on my C-drive the last couple years. I will start with a few questions:. Why couldn’t the Torah SheBal Peh be written down?
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The TorahJournal Blog: The Pesukim of Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofaros
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Thursday, October 16, 2008. The Pesukim of Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofaros. In the rosh hashana mussaf, we read 10 pesukim from Tanach for each section mentioned above. We read them in the following order: Torah, Kesuvim, then Nevi'im. The question is obvious: Why does Kesuvim come before Nevi'im? The pesukim from navi are primar...
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The TorahJournal Blog: The Ox that Gored
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. The Ox that Gored. And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, so that it dieth; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. He’ll go bankrupt! Since it’s not something he’s fully responsible for anyways, the Torah doesn’t want him to go...An example for ...
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The TorahJournal Blog: The 3 Billionth Sinner (draft)
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Trying to see the forest from the veins of the leaf, and the mountains and the oceans too. A blog about Halacha and Machshava, Torah and Education, Science and Torah and more. Thursday, October 16, 2008. The 3 Billionth Sinner (draft). This post was written after Rosh Hashana, but I only got internet access now.). I used to be bothered by this. What are the chances of everything actually being in a 50-50 balance? What is the point in imagining such a unlikely thing? Yetzer Tov: Wait, Don't sin! Dovid's* ...