Maimonides on Life Laws of De’os – Chapter 2, Law 5 Chapter 2, Law 5 The Torah Speaks for Itself Law 5 “A fence for wisdom is silence (Pirkei Avos 3:17 (http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter3-17d.html)). Therefore, one should not hurry to respond and not speak excessively. One should teach his students with composure and calmness, without screaming and…
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MARAN HARAV OVADIA
The Revered Gaon and Posek Who Restored the Crown of Sephardic Jewry He had a mind big enough to master all of Torah. A spirit big enough to lead his people. And a heart big enough to contain all of Klal Yisrael. Maran Harav Ovadia Yosef zt”l was the unique and revered gaon and posek who…
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls Provide the Jewish context of the early Netzari Faith, the sect of the Way. The Early Believers Called: HaDerech (The Way)The Natsari Sect, Netzarim-Natzraya. Almost all the Dead Sea Scrolls were fragmentary; not more than a dozen are intact. One of the fragmentary scrolls Is called 4Q246. If that’s too hard to remember, you can think of it as the Aramaic Apocalypse. 4Q246 or the Aramaic…
New Revelation
Themes of Shavuot (Pentecost)New Revelation One theme of Shavuot (Pentecost) is a new revelation of G-d’s will (Leviticus [Vayikra] 23:15-16,21). Two notable historical events happened on this day. The giving of the Ten Commandments or the Torah.It should be noted here that the Hebrew word Torah, commonly translated as “law” in English, does not mean “law,” but “instruction or teaching”…
Galilean Aramaic
Galilean Aramaic (Only this dialect will be dealt with extensively here.) This is the dialect of the Aramaic parts of the Jerusalem Talmud, of the aggadic Midrashim, the Palestinian deeds, the Aramaic documents of the geonic period (found in the Cairo *Genizah), and synagogue inscriptions discovered in Ereẓ Israel. The Palestinian Targum and the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan…
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments: The Inside Story By Naftali Silberberg The Ten Commandments were engraved on two tablets. The five commandments etched on the first tablet deal with man’s relationship with G‑d; the second tablet contains five commandments which concern man’s relationship with his fellow man. Of the 613 biblical commandments, G‑d selected these ten commandments…
SPRING FESTIVALS
OVERVIEW OF THE SPRING FESTIVALS The four spring festivals are Passover (Pesach), Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah), First Fruits (Bikkurim), and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), or Pentecost. Passover (Pesach) occurs in the first month of the religious calendar (Aviv, also called Nisan), on the fourteenth day, Leviticus (Vayikra) 23:5. Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah) immediately follows…
ERRING QORBANS
CONGREGATIONAL INADVERTENT ERRING QORBANS 13 And if the whole congregation witness of Israel Yisra El sin through ignorance err inadvertently, and the thing word be hid concealed from the eyes of the assembly congregation, and they have done somewhat against any worked unto one of the commandments misvoth of the LORD Yah Veh concerning things…
FLOUR QORBANS
And when any a soul will offer shall oblate a meat offering qorban unto the LORD Yah Veh, his offering qorban shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put give frankincense thereon: 2 And he shall bring it to Aaron’s Aharon’s sons the priests: and he shall take handle…
Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot Pirkei Avot (Literally, “Chapters of the Fathers”, and oftentimes called “Avot”) is a tractate of the Mishna composed of ethical maxims of the Mishnaic period. This little tractate contains five chapters and is often called “Ethics of the Fathers”. The text of this edition of the Avot is a paraphrased translation in idiomatic…
ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AMONG THE JEWS
ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AMONG THE JEWS – JewishEncyclopedia.com. ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AMONG THE JEWS: Table of Contents Considered Foreign by Ancient Hebrews. Aramaic Displaces Hebrew. The Targum, the Aramaic Version of the Scriptures. Language of Amoraim. Arabic Displaces Aramaic. The Zohar. Names and Dialects of Aramaic. Extent of Aramaic Literature. Considered Foreign by Ancient Hebrews. Of all…
The Oldest Reference to Israel
The Oldest Reference to Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society. Why do we have a Bible from ancient Israel and Judah? Could something like it have existed among the Philistines, the Moabites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Persians? If so, why haven’t they been transmitted throughout the ages and been translated into thousands of languages,…
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