…Gershon Bacon Amazon search for Gershon Bacon The Politics of Tradition: Agudat Yisrael in Poland, 1916-1939 Professor Reuven Kimelman Amazon search for Reuven Kimelman The Mystical Meaning of “Lekhah Dodi”…
…term to mean any form of reproduced sound, including an echo. Indeed, a number of translators render the term as “echo” (see e.g. Soncino Talmud). However, Marcus Danby renders the…
…understanding of the term, as compared to understandings of “protect” or “skip over.” It seems to me that the understandings of “protect” and “to have compassion” are relatively close to…
…(yikahu) a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for each one [kohen] is holy to his God” (Lev. 21:7). The term “take” (kihah) signifies “marriage” (see Kiddushin 2a;…
…was a term used to portray the divine as a Warrior god. This conception of the deity was borrowed from the widespread tribal conception in the Ancient Near East that…
…to impose on itself a stringency; in that case, a person who comes to that town must observe that stringency, even if he intends to return to his home, so…
…halakhah.[5] He noted that while the term certainly has some sense of fixture, the term “boundary” also provided for the possibility of a range of options within those boundaries. I…
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…Coming from “cerebro,” meaning the brain and atmosphere, according to the hilarious “Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook,”[1] this is the politically correct term for an “airhead.” Other entertaining entries…
…as an institution. In fact, as Rabbi Louis Ginzberg points out (Students. Scholars. and Saints, Philadelphia, 1928, p. 123), the modern Hebrew term for adoption (imutz) does not appear in…
…this man, whose son is so learned, whose reputation for greatness so dazzling, and whose voluminous Talmudic research has set the agenda of Talmudic scholarship to this day? Born in…