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What I’m Reading

Did you see that I have a ‘What I’m Reading’ feed for things I read in my google reader but don’t get around to posting it? (It’s on the left [...]

Short Songs for a Wedding Tisch

Short Songs for a Wedding Tisch (58)

Chosen Kallah Mazel Tov
Chosen Kallah Mazel Tov
חתן כלה מזל טוב

Torat Hashem T’mima
Torat Hashem T’mima M’shivat Nafesh
תורת ה’ תמימה משיבת נפש

Kol sasson
Kol Sason v’Kol Simḥa, Kol Ḥaṯan v’Kol Kalah
קוֹל שָׂשׂוֹן וְקוֹל שִׂמְחָה, קוֹל חָתָן וְקוֹל כַּלָּה,

Asher [...]

Ezekiel 3:12 Barukh Berom Bekum

Which is it?

The Hebrew font here is from Lachish 5 (6th century BCE)

See here:  English, Hebrew

In comment to DovBear

Tfilat ha derek l’golshim ba reshet Blessing for the Internet

Tfilat ha derek l’golshim ba reshet Blessing for the Internet.

Fun “blessing” for wayfarers of the intertubes

Israeli Tnuva Cheese Coupon!

Tnuva Sale page. Yummy Cheese.

Bio of Heshy Fried, Frum Satire

In much of the Jewish online world, a blog post about someone enjoying Shabbat services would either be mundane, or, at best, a delight for some parental types. But on Heshy Fried’s blog, such a post attracted 224 comments and counting. Some of them chastise the blogger “Your people contribute to Judaism’s death by assimilation [...]

Mergers. Are They Good For The Jews? – Rabbi Barry Gelman « Morethodoxy: Exploring the Breadth, Depth and Passion of Orthodox Judaism

I think there is a general trend in my generation (I’m 30) to eschew denominational boundaries.

In my experience, the majority of people who go to Conservative synagogues have gone because they are looking for something with Hebrew, a certain prayer service, and egalitarian. They aren’t necessarily familiar with the positive-historical model of JTS scholarship.

Similarly, in [...]

Some Great Jewish Blogs I Read

Some great Jewish blogs I regularly read. (The first two I just discovered recently).

The Tosefta Blog. English Translation and Commentary on the Tosefta by Eli Gurevich
parshablog by Josh Waxman.
Mah Rabu by BZ, Thoughts about Torah, physics, politics, the independent Jewish scene, education, music, New York, and the intersections of all those areas.
DovBear.  DovBear has posted [...]

Some wedding discussion

From Mah Rabu

I think the obvious fully egalitarian approach to kiddushin is a “harei at mekudeshet” and a “harei ata mekudash” or some such.
[[The purpose, as probably everyone reading here knows, is historically the exclusive claiming of the woman while the man can build up his financial resources to take on the burden of marriage [...]

Some posts on Morethedoxy.org

What motivates us?

Posted by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky

Benjamin Fleischer Says:
June 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm Regarding your specific example of Shabbat, the Torah itself gives many reasons:

Exodus 23:12

יב ששת ימים תעשה מעשיך, וביום השביעי תשבת–למען ינוח, שורך וחמרך, וינפש בן-אמתך, והגר.

Six days you shall do your deeds, and on teh seventh you shall cease– in order that [...]