by danya | Jul 25, 2007 | Blog
Just on the other side of Tisha B’Av, this is too good not to repost. This recent-ish story in the Washington Post is, as Kol Ra’ash Gadol points out, the perfect antidote to the Kamtza/Bar Kamtza story about why the Temple was destroyed. (It’s...
by danya | Jul 20, 2007 | Blog
The good Dr. Aryeh Cohen has some worthwhile commentary on the Iraq war and Tisha b’Av over on the Jews Against the War site. It begins: When we are lucky we get a second chance. Tragedy often results from blowing the second chance. Two stories bring this...
by danya | Jul 18, 2007 | Blog
My world is pretty small these days. Most of my days are occupied with various iterations of scheduling with my 3 hevrutot–L. on Monday morning, J. on Monday afternoon, S. on Tuesday morning, J. on Tuesday afternoon, etc. Periodically I study the dappim (2-sided...
by danya | Jul 15, 2007 | Blog
Worth watching on several counts….
by danya | Jul 9, 2007 | Blog
So evidently a lot of folks are getting here today because someone name-checked me in a Dutch blog–thanks to whoever did that, but what on Earth were you guys talking about? I tried translating via Babelfish and the results were pretty unintentionally...
by danya | Jul 5, 2007 | Blog
I contributed a little drash-let to Jewess this week on the daughters of Tzelophchad. Here’s the beginning part: The story of the daughters of Tzelophechad is a favorite among Jewish feminists. One can see why: five women come before Moshe and the other (male)...
by danya | Jul 4, 2007 | Blog
A lot of why I haven’t been posting much lately is that, unlike in days of yore, I haven’t had much access to computers in my day-to-day routine this summer. I wake up, rush off to a hevruta session, go from there to another one, have perhaps a work...
by danya | Jun 24, 2007 | Blog
So I’m finally doing Phase Two of settling into my apartment–finding places for all the bits and bobs that’ve been lurking in the corners. This requires going into the cabinets in which I crammed all my stuff and taking things out, so that I can make...
by danya | Jun 21, 2007 | Blog
When I first got to Israel, I was involved in several confusing moments because I reverted to Talmudic Aramaic when I should have been using Modern Hebrew (most amusing: not long after getting to Jerusalem three years ago, flustered because I had just realized that I...
by danya | Jun 15, 2007 | Blog
Oddly, the 50 dappim (2-sided pages) I’m learning this summer for my test are chock-full of demon stories. Some of them I’ve met in the past, some are new. Here’s some wacky stuff from Brachot 6a about how to enlighten oneself about the presence of...
