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Who Is Chosen? | Adventures in Tefillah
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A Jewish educator's musings on prayer, Torah, Israel, music, teaching, and yoga www.rabbigailnalven.com. About Gail F. Nalven. Cantor Shoshana Goldberg Mysteries. Blogging the Torah, Parashat Balak: Blessings, Not Curses. Really! Shabbat Nachamu: If Only →. July 16, 2015. Gail F. Nalven. I remember reading The Chosen. As a teen and I was hooked. I then went on to The Promise. The sequel and pretty much every other book by Chaim Potok. But The Chosen. And Reuven Malter, the son of an academic and a writer...
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: July 2010
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Sunday, July 11, 2010. Danny Sanderson - HaGalshan. יום בהיר של שמש. It's a clear, sunny day/there are no clouds/me and all my peeps/are going to the beach/we take the car/the girls are already there). From The New York Times, about a women's only park in Afghanistan, particularly the description of how women take off their usual modest clothing once they are away from male gaze. This then leads me to the question of what specifically is drivi...
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: May 2010
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Friday, May 28, 2010. Yesterday was the last day of classes at Pardes - bittersweet, for sure. Now, everyone's caught up in the whirlwind of packing up and saying goodbye. But amidst all that hullabaloo, here's some Torah from my last gemara class.*. The mishnah (Bavli Sotah, 45b) goes on to say:. לא בא לידינו ופטרנוהו, לא ראינוהו והנחנוהו. The gemara (Masechet Sotah 46b) asks the question - how is it that this corpse got there in the first place?
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Airplanes, Taxis, Buses, Boats, Trains...and a Ferris Wheel?!
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Friday, April 22, 2011. Airplanes, Taxis, Buses, Boats, Trains.and a Ferris Wheel? Lida, Belarus, 2nd night of Pesach:. What does the salt water represent? What does maror represent? Jewish pain all through history. With the elderly Jews of Grodno, had a surprise motorboat ride in a lake in Lida with Igor, and watched a cantorial festival, featuring costumes slightly reminiscent of the Sound of Music. We spent hours talking with our translator...
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: For Zion's Sake I Will Not Be Silent
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Wednesday, May 4, 2011. For Zion's Sake I Will Not Be Silent. Please check out the blog post. I wrote for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America in response to the recent articles ( here. By Daniel Gordis about rabbinical students and Israel. And in other, related news, today I bought this poster. At the Israel Museum. Better watch what pictures of it get posted on Facebook.wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong message! View my complete profile.
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: December 2010
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Sunday, December 26, 2010. Overheard at מסרד הפנים - the Ministry of the Interior. Standing in line in a tiny corridor not wide enough for 2 people). Young Haredi man: Is this where you come to make a visa appointment? Older Haredi man: Yes. Young Haredi man: If it's just appointments, why is it taking so long? Older Haredi man: You come here, you come to Africa. Labels: life in Israel. Saturday, December 25, 2010. Monday, December 13, 2010. In Is...
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Rabbi Audrey Pollack: February 2014
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Sunday, February 2, 2014. In the Talmud, tractate Avodah Zarah, “Our Rabbis taught:When Adam, the first human, saw the day getting gradually shorter, he said, 'Woe is me, perhaps because I have sinned, the world around me is being darkened and returning to its state of chaos and confusion; this then is the kind of death to which I have been sentenced from Heaven! Snow Women of the Wall, Jerusalem. We aren’t the only ones experiencing colder than normal winter weather. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Jewi...
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Divine Misconceptions • הַגֹּרֶן: August 2013
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Divine Misconceptions • הַגֹּרֶן. COMPLAINING ABOUT BAD THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS FALLACIES AND MISINFORMATION SINCE 2009. 169; 2012 Aaron Solomon Adelman. 8226; The Breast Cancer Site. 8226; The Child Health Site. 8226; The Literacy Site. 8226; The Rainforest Site. 8226; The Animal Rescue Site. 8226; Save the Net. 8226; American Friends of Magen David Adom. 8226; American Red Cross. 8226; Free Pollard Now. 8226; GIVE VACCINES. Friday, August 9, 2013. Women of the Wall and a Temple Mount protest. The police...
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Leaving Jerusalem
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Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Tuesday, June 7, 2011. I wrote this while flying from Israel to New York a few weeks ago. It will most likely be my last post on this blog, which I started in order to reflect on my own experiences living in Jerusalem for two years, and to share them with all of you. May 20, 2011. El Al #1, TLV-JFK. Somewhere over Newfoundland…. This year we have been studying Masechet Shabbat. At our final meeting as chevruta (for now), we studied a sugya. Centur...
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Rabbi Audrey Pollack: August 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Ayecha - Where Are You? 8221; ( Rabbi Alan Lew, "This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation". Have you thought about how you would like to grow and change in the coming year? Who have you been? Who would you like to be in the coming year? Anat Hoffman sounds the shofar. On Rosh Hodesh Elul in Jerusalem. Who have we been created to be? Are we living each day with mindfulness, with purpose, with awareness? Why I Go To Camp.
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