Analysis
Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Matti Friedman Tablet, May 4, 2022 “So “Lover Lover Lover” is a war song. It’s not clear what “lover” he’s referring to in the chorus, which simply intones that word seven times and implores, “come back to me.” But if we understand the song as a kind of prayer, maybe the word appears […]
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Joanne Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 7, 2022 ““I’ll Have What She’s Having” bears no resemblance whatsoever to the over-stuffed sandwiches that are the deli’s stock in trade. The exhibit is lean and compact, free of kitsch and light on schmaltzy nostalgia.” “Tell me what you eat,” the 18th-century French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously said, […]
Stav Ziv Forward, Dec. 15, 2022 “… whether they’re following their own personal observance or taking those of their audience into account, the groups have religious reasons to limit their membership. Also business reasons.” Plenty has changed about holiday a cappella videos since “Candlelight” exploded on YouTube over a decade ago like a 21st-century Hanukkah […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, October 14th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Are We Celebrating on Simchas Torah?: Rabbi Michael Taubes, Sukkot-to-Go, 5783 — The joyous holiday of Sukkos, and indeed the entire Yomim Noraim season, culminates with our celebrating the completion of our yearly Kerias HaTorah cycle with the reading of Parshas VeZos HaBerachah, the last parshah in the Chumash. ANICENT BOOK: MODERN QUESTIONS WATCH: […]
Sholom Aleichem Tablet, Oct. 9, 2020 “I took stock of all the other flags, then looked back at my own. What a contrast. Theirs weren’t even fit to hold a candle to mine. My flag was the most successful of all, for who had as much wax as me?” When I was a little […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 20, 2018 “But was this an actual Simḥat Torah service? I have my doubts.” “One of the most famous foundational stories in the narrative of Anglo-Jewry,” it was called by Tablet several years ago. The online Jewish magazine was referring to an entry in the diary of the British statesman Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, Oct. 9, 2022 “Is this modern-sounding idea—that life without progress is meaningless—really Kohelet’s worldview?” In 1855, Adolph Jellinek (1821–1893) published a commentary on Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) from a late 13th century manuscript in Codex hebr. 32 (henceforth, “Hamburg 32”). The copyist opens the commentary with the words פי’ של ר’ שמואל […]
Outside Source
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gershon Winkler Isranet.org, Oct. 14, 2022 “But my father, he was unconcerned that he and his sukkah could conceivably – at any moment – break loose and crash down into the alleyway below. After all, he had seven special angels surrounding him.” My memory isn’t as great as it used to be, and quite […]
Tuesday, October 4th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Rabbi Steven Bob TheTorah.com, September 2022 “The whole thing is about Nineveh, which is a non-Israelite nation, and there is no mention of Israel at all. There is nothing like this anywhere in the Prophets!” The biblical prophets generally address Israel and speak to the concerns of Israelites.[1] Even the category of prophecy […]
Joshua Berman Times of Israel, Sept. 12, 2021 “But why do biblical figures seemingly resolve their tensions only non-verbally? Why is there nothing akin to “I’m sorry for what I did,” and “I forgive you”?” It’s that time of year when Jews are called upon to express contrition for wrongs done to another, […]
Friday, September 23rd 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Eyes Open, Eyes Shut: Thoughts for Rosh Hashana: Rabbi Marc D. Angel, The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, September 2022 — Paul Gaugin, the famous 19th century French artist, commented: “When I want to see clearly, I shut my eyes.” He was referring to two different ways of perceiving reality. With our eyes open, […]
Rabbi Shawn Ruby The Torah.com, Sept. 2022 “The term zichron teruah in Leviticus emphasizes how, on this day, Israel wants to make enough noise to get God’s attention, and remind God of the covenant with Israel.” In the Torah, the festival we call Rosh Hashanah (New Year) falls out on the first day of the seventh […]
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