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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: August 2008
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Monday, August 11, 2008. Internship for Year 4. Having not previously noted on my rabbinical student web log, I am hereby noting that my year four internship. Will be with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper. For the Center for Modern Torah Leadership. I had meant to post about my last and ninth visit to my year three internship. Although I never got around to it, nor did I have a wrap-up post about my internship (perhaps I will, we'll see). Posted by Drew Kaplan at 11:36 PM.
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: February 2008
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Monday, February 11, 2008. Difference Between Descriptions and Divrei Torah. Last weekend during my internship. I delivered a devar torah. On the verse, A witch you shall not let live. Although there are a lot of interesting verses in the parshah of Mishpatim. This verse sticks out like a sore thumb. It sparked my interest, so I decided to speak about it. I had also given a presentation on this topic at the end of my mekhinah. Sources for that presentation. Links to this post.
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: May 2007
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Thursday, May 10, 2007. As part of the pastoral counseling curriculum. Mates and I completed a six-week course in chaplaincy this past spring. The course, led by Rabbi Naomi Kalish. Sted over the course of six Mondays, the first and last being from 9-5 and the middle four being several hours in those four afternoons. Unfortunately, I missed the first session since I was at the JFSJ conference [that Monday ( 1. Several blocks away from our school. Links to this post.
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: March 2008
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Monday, March 31, 2008. Today, I went down to the Chelsea neighborhood for a dialogue amongst rabbinical students. This annual event of Clal'. S was my fourth such one, having attended each of the four years I've been at YCT. The topic was "How and When to do What with Whom? However, one thing we did, as part of our conversations, we talked about various scenarios (some of which we had talked about in our Pastoral Counseling. Classes - so yay for YCT's curriculum(! I wanted t...
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Alei Shur v.2 Sha’ar 3 ch. 2 va’adim 1 & 2 | Through the Lens of Torah & Halakhah
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Through the Lens of Torah and Halakhah. Texts and Tradition in Jewish Life. Alei Shur v.2 Sha’ar 3 ch. 2 va’adim 1 & 2. In the first va’ad Rav Wolbe sets up the importance of a moment of silence before prayer. Simply sitting still and focusing on your thoughts for about a minute can truly transform your experience of tefilfa. I know from my own experience how powerful this can be as a tool of meditation. Alei Shur v.2 Sha’ar 3 ch.2 va’ad 1 – Preparations begin at bedtime. He then moves on to the first tw...
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: April 2008
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Visit consisted of, on Friday afternoon, of visiting the Hartford Jewish Federation. And speaking with the staff member in charge of allocations. I hadn’t previously known about how Federations allocated their money, so it was interestingly enlightening (and not so mysterious anymore). I also learned about other elements about federations. After that, we visited a lady in a hospital. That evening, I gave the Friday night devar Torah. Links to this post.
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog: February 2007
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A Rabbinical Student's Blog. Thursday, February 15, 2007. Kehillot Kedoshot (Posting #5): Day 3. The second beit midrash session used the story about the members of the Sanhedrin. And then eventually reinstating him, but with certain limits ( Berakhot 27b. As a jump-off for discussion about leadership models and social organizing. It was interesting, especially since I have read this story before, but now doing so in a new light. Anyways, the conference came to an end shortly after that session. We then ...
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She-lo Asani Isha – Gemara and Rishonim | Through the Lens of Torah & Halakhah
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Through the Lens of Torah and Halakhah. Texts and Tradition in Jewish Life. She-lo Asani Isha – Gemara and Rishonim. טור אורח חיים סימן מו. Tur, Orach Chayyim 46. In the time period immediately preceding hazal and then in the Christian Bible you find the following texts;. Diogenes Laeriut, Thales, I,33. I was grateful to fortune:. 1 That I was born a person and not a beast;. 2 I was born a man and not a woman;. 3 A Greek and not a barbarian. In fact a similar set of berachot was found in the geniza:.
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Dash – Choleiv | Through the Lens of Torah & Halakhah
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Through the Lens of Torah and Halakhah. Texts and Tradition in Jewish Life. Dash – Choleiv. החולב והמחבץ והמגבן כגרוגרת, המכבד, והמרבץ, והרודה חלות דבש. שגג בשבת – חייב חטאת, הזיד ביום טוב – לוקה ארבעים, דברי רבי אליעזר. וחכמים אומרים: אחד זה ואחד זה אינו אלא משום שבות. It is an attempt to understand this berayta and to synthesize it with the limitation of dash to things that grown from the ground that generates the complexity of the sugya of choleiv. That want to at least use this shita as a leniency an...
