Talmud – Rabbi Micah Streiffer

10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 5)

NOTE: Each day from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur I will be posting an inspiring Jewish text along with a few questions for reflection. Feel free to answer and discuss here, or to use these questions for your own reflection/journaling. These texts are also being posted on my Facebook page TEXT 5: Talmud, Shabbat 153a Rabbi EliezerContinue reading “10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 5)”

10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 4)

NOTE: Each day from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur I will be posting an inspiring Jewish text along with a few questions for reflection. Feel free to answer and discuss here, or to use these questions for your own reflection/journaling. These texts are also being posted on my Facebook page. TEXT 4: Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a Only oneContinue reading “10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 4)”

10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 3)

NOTE: Each day from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur I will be posting an inspiring Jewish text along with a few questions for reflection. Feel free to answer and discuss here, or to use these questions for your own reflection/journaling. These texts are also being posted on my Facebook page. TEXT 3: Pirke Avot 2:4 (Talmudic compilationContinue reading “10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe (Day 3)”

Causeless Hatred and the Jewish State: Have We Learned Our Lesson?

What, I’m not good enough to be blacklisted?? Those were the words with which I jokingly feigned righteous indignation last month when the Israeli rabbinate released its “blacklist” of rabbis from whom they will refuse letters of Jewishness for new immigrants. Others of my colleagues had similar amused responses: congratulating those who did make theContinue reading “Causeless Hatred and the Jewish State: Have We Learned Our Lesson?”