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Shutting Up Until Korech
My high school son received a present from his rebbe, namely a Haggadah which the rebbe really liked: Living the Haggadah, by Rabbi Yeshaya Perlow…
Apr 18 • 
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Shutting Up Until Korech
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The Scorpion and the Frog
And the divergence as to just who croaked
Dec 5, 2022 • 
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The Scorpion and the Frog
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Sefaria's New Gender-Sensitive Tanach
About a week ago, I got an email from Sefaria announcing that they had acquired rights to share the new JPS Bible translation, at this point just for…
May 25, 2023 • 
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Pumbedita and the Silk Road
A few thoughts out of many on this extremely rich daf, Kiddushin 7.
Aug 20, 2023 • 
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Pumbedita and the Silk Road
Luminous Stones and Peshat in Midrash
Remaking a Midrash in our Image
Dec 6, 2022 • 
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Luminous Stones and Peshat in Midrash
Rav Ovadia Yosef and Looking at Female Litigants
As we read recently in masechet Shevuot, we need to treat litigants equally.
Jun 10 • 
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Rav Ovadia Yosef and Looking at Female Litigants
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Harmonizing Midrashim
Here’s my article which I intended to put in the Jewish Link for this past Shabbat.
Oct 13, 2024 • 
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Harmonizing Midrashim
"Blunt his teeth" is an idiom
Here is an expression in the Haggadah that we should understand, based on its pattern of usage.
Apr 7 • 
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Rabbi Yehuda the Tailor
The other day, on Bava Batra 164b, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was confounded by a certain get mekushar.
Dec 8, 2024 • 
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Rabbi Yehuda the Tailor
Toledot: The Censored Radak - You're Rubber, I'm Glue
Eliyahu Munk is a prolific translator of rabbinic commentary, and his translations of various meforshim on Chumash appear in Sefaria.
Nov 27, 2024 • 
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Toledot: The Censored Radak - You're Rubber, I'm Glue
Conditional Probability and Jewish Names
Also, Yahoo! Woe!
Jan 19, 2023 • 
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Synesthesia at Har Sinai (article preview)
Here is my Jewish Link article for this coming week, that is also aligned with the sidra. It is mostly behind a paywall here, but you can read it in…
Feb 13 • 
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