Sunday, October 31, 2010

"Angels" and "Work"

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Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch has a number of interesting writeups on the relationships between words and their meaning. This shabbos, our ra...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Avrohom in Geror

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A post on mail Jewish asked In Parshat Lech-Lecha, we read about the incident where Avram and Sarai are driven from Cana'an because of ...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Difference between תולדות אדם and תולדות שם

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The list of generations in פרק ה בראשית  for תולדות אדם and the list of generations in פרק יא נח for תולדות שם is that there is an extra פסו...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

How the calendar might look with a Sanhedrin

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It is an interesting exercise to attempt to compare what the Sanhedrin might announce to the calculated calendar that we use While the mol...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

How a Sanhedrin might not change the printed calendar this year

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  The time and date calendar can be used to estimate if the eidim can see the moon after the astronomical molad and allow us to guess if th...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Why four out of five years (5771 - 5775) start on Thursday - Friday

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The Jewish year has three possibilities for the number of days in a regular or leap year. The reason is that the lunar month is approximatel...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Mazal Tov

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Mazal Tov to Mordechai and Shira Hocheimer on the birth on their son and my grandson מיכאל שמואל יעקב (Michoel Shmuel Yaakov) born on the Fo...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

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Calendar for Tzedukim Rabbi Et Shalom in Mikra for Shavuos speaks of the calendar used by the minim to force the chagim (and every day of...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Google bomb needed

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Even though I actually do not post, I should set this up for a bit to help google bomb the haters at jewwatch.com. as a result, I am copying...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Sabba Hillel

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

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