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QUAESTIONES QUAEDAM PHILOSOPHIAE (I)

Originally posted on WE THE ECOUMENISTS exontes zilon FOR AN OECOUMENIC POLIS:
(CYNECHIZETAI) This is a notebook Newton acquired while he was an undergraduate at Trinity College and used from about 1661 to 1665 .It includes many notes from his studies and, increasingly, his own explorations into mathematics, physics and metaphysics. It was judged ‘Not…

Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim / פרשת אחרי

ACHAREY AND the Lord spake with Mosheh after the two sons of Aharon were dead, who offered the strange fire before the Lord, and died; and the Lord said unto Mosheh, Speak with Aharon thy brother, that he may not enter at any time into the Holy Place within the veil before the mercy‑seat which…

Parshios Tazria & Metzorah

D’var Torah Parshios Tazria & Metzorah 100% By Rabbi Label Lam And the person with “Tzaraas” in whom there is the affliction- his garments shall be torn, the hair of his head shall be shaved, and he should cover himself up to his lips; he is to call out, “Tame’!-Tame’!”(Contaminated! Contaminated!) All the days that…

The first Netzarim community of Jerusalem

Act 2:36 “Let all the house of Yisroel therefore know certainly that Allaha has made him both MarYah and Meshikha, this Eashoa whom you crucified.” Act 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Kipha and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” Act 2:38…

Parshas Tazria-Metzorah

Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: The laws of purity and impurity as they pertain to child-birth are discussed. The basic laws of…

Pirkei Avos

Is Torah a Burden? Part II Chapter 6, Mishna 2(b) By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “Rabbi Yehoshua ben (son of) Levi said, on every day a heavenly voice emanates from Mount Horeb, announcing: ‘Woe to them, the people, because of the affront to the Torah.’ For anyone who does not study is called ‘rebuked,’ as the…

Be Cautious of the Burning Coals of the Sages

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
Today, Yom Ha’Atzma’ut (Israeli Independence Day) is celebrated. According to Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l, although we must certainly offer much praise and thanks to Hashem for removing the rule of the British Mandate and allowing for the establishment of the State of Israel, since our Sages have not…

Entire Chapter 5 “Judaism: Ezra to the Bar Kochba Revolt”

Any Assembly Which Is For the Sake of Heaven Shall Last

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
When Hagaon Harav Yisrael Meir Ha’Kohen of Radin, the saintly author of such works as “Chafetz Chaim” and “Mishnah Berura”, was about ninety years old, he called for a gathering of all rabbis and Roshei Yeshiva in the vicinity of Vilna, Grodno, and Sobalk on the third of Sivan,…

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Korbanos A question of approach

Rambam, Moreh Nevuchim (Guide for the Perplexed) 3:32The Torah’s sacrifices replaced the idolatrous practices of the ancients in which Jewish people had been steeped But the well-known custom which was common then, and the general mode of worship in which the Israelites were brought up consisted of sacrificing animals…It was in accordance with the wisdom…

Judging People Favorably

Originally posted on Sefardi Beit Sefer:
Since it is customary this time of year during the Omer counting period to publicly expound the teachings of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) as was indeed the custom of Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l, let us discuss some ideas mentioned in Pirkei Avot. Pirkei Avot states (Chapter…