The Yemenite Chanukah Party

...the few who didn’t speak Hebrew fluently, so my communication was limited...arrivals from Yemen don’t speak Hebrew either; they speak Arabic. My new...order of business was a devar Torah. It was given over by a...All this went on mostly in Hebrew and even in some Arabic. ...to watch little girls perform about Torah and mitzvos. And then they turned..., and contrary to popular belief, the Torah has room for it....

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December Dilemma, or Our Hanukkah Tradition

... in America to make it "jewish christmas" - both in the positive and negative light. From the Hebrew word for "dedication" or "consecration", Hanukkah marks the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its ... doesn't love it, but takes something interesting out every week we are there, and loves the Torah reading and the sermon. Likewise, with the holidays, he isn't required (obviously) to do ...

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December Dilemma, or Our Hanukkah Tradition

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Nachash - The Advance To The Future

...אֲשֶׁר כָּמֹנִי know ye not that such a person as I will indeed divine? ... Bereshit 44:15 The Hebrew word translated as 'divine' (יְנַחֵשׁ) is derived from the shoresh (three letter root) נחש meaning to 'conjure... trick to this magic and no guessing. There is only the true fact. From last week's Torah commentary on Vayeshev , Between the Pages of Time : I dreamt. I was among a small group...

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Pico and Abulafia (wolfson) stuff didn't fit in below

....), Rivkah Shatz-Uffenheimer Memorial Volume (Hebrew), Jerusalem 1996, volume I, 157-176...Approaches in Understandin the Kabbalistic Symbol" (Hebrew), in: Daat 24 (1990), 5-40...nature of the sefirot and the Hebrew language... "these wondrous topics cannot be...Kabbalah that is based on the Torah (Qabbalah Toriit) as follows: "to ... one possible translation of the Hebrew phrase, which stands, more probably,...

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Pico, Magic, Cabala -- tons of old notes from Copenhaver, Idel, CW, etc.

... of Mithridates are shot through with Hebrew words and phrases and, occasionally, ...is a significant difference between the Hebrew originals and the Latin translations in...Page 20 1988 Abulafia's Sitrei Torah "became one of the cornerstones of..., and remain faithful to the Hebrew sources. Levenson explains one view of... thesis he declares that: "Every Hebrew Cabalist, following the principles and sayings...

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Proofreading, part 1

...why we have a rule that even one mistake in a Torah scroll renders the entire scroll invalid for use until the ... this subject, see for instance Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible ). But the Torah's integrity was, for rabbinic Judaism, a theological principle, and as such...be accepted. So it is that when you write a Torah, you have to proofread it extremely carefully. You have to...

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Brian Copenhaver on Pico + KBL from SEP

.... Cabala, which Pico saw as the holier Hebrew analog of the gentile ‘ancient theology’ revealed by...in Cabala, which he traced to the oral Torah confided to Moses and passed on in secret ... Christian who had the expertise, including a little Hebrew and Aramaic, to back up the astonishing claims ... the Conclusions, especially Pico's speculations about Hebrew words and letters. Language is the gateway to ...

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The story of Chanukah

.... They did, however, practise all those heinous acts forbidden under Antiochus' enlightened pagan rule, namely Torah study, keeping Sabbath holy, keeping a kosher kitchen, circumcision, and so on. They didn’t...celebrate. Jews ever since then have spent 8 days of the year enjoying the miracle. The Hebrew acronym describing the event became the basis of gambling using a spinning top, probably around ...

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Palestinian Zionism

... come when they unite with Israeli Jews to a form a Muslim-Christian-Jewish Hebrew nation-state based on common identification with Israelite tribal history, as recorded in the Torah and as recognized by both Islam and Christianity. True Palestinian nationalism is Hebrew nationalism. A Palestinian in a keffiyah is as incongruous as an Indian in a ...

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