#rabbinic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rabbinic, aggregated by home.social.
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"#EishetChayil: Woman of Valor – Heroines of Our History is a commentary on the 22 verses of #Proverbs 31, based on #midrash, the #Talmud, classic #rabbinic texts, and #ChabadHassidut. It is published by #Kehot, the central publishing house of the #Chabad-#Lubavitch movement.
The #book does not merely explain “Eishet Chayil”; it positions it as a sweeping #theological and historical statement about #Jewish #womanhood and Jewish survival. The tone is set early on, with sentences like, “At every critical juncture of our long and challenging history, you will find the fearless and wise eishet chayil shepherding us toward our destiny.”
One of the book’s central claims is clear and consistent: Jewish #history does not merely include #women; it is propelled by them."
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"#RosenZvi has done a wonderful job, aided by #DanielTabak’s astute #translation, of #writing a work that, while academically rigorous, remains accessible.
While a 10-year-old can start to learn #Mishnah, there’s a complexity, sophistication, and depth of thought that is not readily apparent to a 5th-grader. The truth be told, it’s not readily apparent to a lot of people.
Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a #book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and #Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.
One can’t understand #rabbinic #Judaism by reading these #texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic #Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-how-to-read-the-mishnah-and-midrash/
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"#RosenZvi has done a wonderful job, aided by #DanielTabak’s astute #translation, of #writing a work that, while academically rigorous, remains accessible.
While a 10-year-old can start to learn #Mishnah, there’s a complexity, sophistication, and depth of thought that is not readily apparent to a 5th-grader. The truth be told, it’s not readily apparent to a lot of people.
Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a #book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and #Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.
One can’t understand #rabbinic #Judaism by reading these #texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic #Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-how-to-read-the-mishnah-and-midrash/
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"#RosenZvi has done a wonderful job, aided by #DanielTabak’s astute #translation, of #writing a work that, while academically rigorous, remains accessible.
While a 10-year-old can start to learn #Mishnah, there’s a complexity, sophistication, and depth of thought that is not readily apparent to a 5th-grader. The truth be told, it’s not readily apparent to a lot of people.
Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a #book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and #Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.
One can’t understand #rabbinic #Judaism by reading these #texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic #Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-how-to-read-the-mishnah-and-midrash/
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"#RosenZvi has done a wonderful job, aided by #DanielTabak’s astute #translation, of #writing a work that, while academically rigorous, remains accessible.
While a 10-year-old can start to learn #Mishnah, there’s a complexity, sophistication, and depth of thought that is not readily apparent to a 5th-grader. The truth be told, it’s not readily apparent to a lot of people.
Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a #book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and #Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.
One can’t understand #rabbinic #Judaism by reading these #texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic #Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-how-to-read-the-mishnah-and-midrash/
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"#RosenZvi has done a wonderful job, aided by #DanielTabak’s astute #translation, of #writing a work that, while academically rigorous, remains accessible.
While a 10-year-old can start to learn #Mishnah, there’s a complexity, sophistication, and depth of thought that is not readily apparent to a 5th-grader. The truth be told, it’s not readily apparent to a lot of people.
Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a #book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and #Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.
One can’t understand #rabbinic #Judaism by reading these #texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic #Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-how-to-read-the-mishnah-and-midrash/
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Adar is the month of Jewish Joy!
"In the #Jewish calendar, the month of #Adar, the month of #Purim, marks the transition from the darkness of winter to the spring redemption story that is enacted on the holidays of #Passover and #Shavuot. This is expressed in the four unique #Torah readings of this period, which all address different aspects of preparing for Passover. It may also be behind the well-known #rabbinic teaching (#Taanit 29a) that when Adar begins, we increase our joy.
It is important to notice that this teaching is not descriptive. It is not a comment on the fact that as the air grows warmer, the hours of daylight lengthen and the first spots of green begin to appear on the trees, we might begin to feel some of the heaviness of winter lifting from our souls. Though this is true, the teaching is articulated as an imperative, calling on us to engage actively in creating more joy in our lives during this period."
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Leiden Summer School 2025
The program for this year’s Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is up. Besides the Caucasian, Chinese, Language Description, Language Documentation, Indo-European (I/II), Celtic, Indology, Iranian, Linguistics (I/II), Mediterranean World, and Russian tracks, here’s the line-up for Semitic this year:
- An introduction to Arabic paleography and epigraphy (Ahmad Al-Jallad)
- Comparative Semitics (Marijn van Putten with guest lectures by me and maybe others)
- Rabbinic Hebrew (Martin Baasten)
- Classical Ethiopic (Martin Baasten)
Registration opens soon! The Summer School will run from July 21st through August 1st.
#Arabic #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #news #ProtoSemitic #Rabbinic
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I’m an #ultraOrthodox #Rabbi and I #SpeakUp for #LGBTQ #Jews.
No one should ever have to choose between a #queer #identity and a #religious one. #Rabbinic #voices can even be used to #incite #evil, or it can #inspire #love, #acceptance, and #celebration. That is why I spoke at the #Jerusalem
#PrideMarch earlier this month.#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Israel #Religion #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
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Hadar’s #Rabbinic #Yeshiva Intensive (RYI) aims to refill the spiritual and intellectual wells of #rabbis from across the denominational and geographical spectrum through text study and meaningful conversation.
It offers a remarkable space for rabbis of all backgrounds to come together to learn resonant and relevant Torah in Hadar’s beit midrash.