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The American Rabbinic Career of Rabbi Gavriel Zev Margolis By
The American Rabbinic Career of Rabbi Gavriel Zev Margolis i: by Joshua Hoffman In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Modern Jewish History Sponsored by Dr. Jeffrey Gurock Bernard Revel Graduate School Yeshiva University July, 1992 [ rI'. I Table of Contents Introduction. .. .. • .. • . • .. • . .. .• 1 - 2 Chapter One: Rabbi Margolis' Background in Russia, 1847-1907•••••••.••.•••••••••••••.•••.•••.•••..•.• 3 - 18 Chapter Two: Rabbi Margolis' Years in Boston, 1907-1911........................................ 19 - 31 Chapter Three: Rabbi Margolis' Years in New York, 1911-1935••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••..••. 32 - 119 A. Challenging the Kehillah.. ... ..... ....... 32 - 48 B. Confronting the Shochtim and the Agudat Harabbonim.• .. •.. •.. •..•....••... ... .. 49 - 88 c. The Knesset Harabbonim... .... .... .... ... •. 89 - 121 Conclusions. ..................................... 122 - 125 Appendix . ........................................ 126 - 132 Notes....... .. .... .... ....... ... ... .... ..... .... 133 - 155 Bibliography .....•... •.•.... ..... .•.. .... ...... 156 - 159 l Introduction Rabbi Gavriel zev Margolis (1847-1935) is one of the more neglected figures in the study of American Orthodoxy in the early 1900' s. Although his name appears occasionally in studies of the period, he is generally mentioned only briefly, and assigned a minor role in events of the time. A proper understanding of this period, however, requires an extensive study of his American career, because his opposition -
Torah Weekly
בס״ד Torah Defining Work One generations as an everlasting conventional understanding covenant. Between Me and is that we spend six days of Weekly of the most important the children of Israel, it is the week working and practices in Judaism, the forever a sign that [in] six pursuing our physical needs, February 28- March 6, 2021 fourth of the Ten 16-22 Adar, 5781 days the L-rd created the and on the seventh day we Commandments, is to heaven and the earth, and on rest from the pursuit of the First Torah: refrain from work on the Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:11 - 34:35 the seventh day He ceased physical and dedicate a day Second Torah: seventh day, to sanctify it and rested. (Exodus 31:16- to our family, our soul and Parshat Parah: Numbers 19:1-22 and make it holy. Yet, the 17.) our spiritual life. Yet the exact definition of rest and PARSHAT KI TISA From the juxtaposition of Torah is signaling to us that forms of labor prohibited Shabbat and the we should think about labor We have Jewish on Shabbat are not explicitly commandment to build the in the context of the work Calendars. If you stated in the Torah. necessary to construct the would like one, Tabernacle, we derive that The Sages of sanctuary. please send us a the Tabernacle may not be the Talmud explain that the constructed on Shabbat. This Thus, the halachic definition letter and we will Torah alludes to there being send you one, or implies that any labor that of “labor” is derived from 39 categories of prohibited ask the was needed for the the labor used for the Calendars labor. -
Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs by Daniel D
Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs by Daniel D. Stuhlman BHL, BA, MS LS, MHL In support of the Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree Jewish University of America Skokie, IL 2004 Page 1 Abstract Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs By Daniel D. Stuhlman, BA, BHL, MS LS, MHL Because of the differences in alphabets, entering Hebrew names and words in English works has always been a challenge. The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is the source for many names both in American, Jewish and European society. This work examines given names, starting with theophoric names in the Bible, then continues with other names from the Bible and contemporary sources. The list of theophoric names is comprehensive. The other names are chosen from library catalogs and the personal records of the author. Hebrew names present challenges because of the variety of pronunciations. The same name is transliterated differently for a writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, but Yiddish names are not covered in this document. Family names are included only as they relate to the study of given names. One chapter deals with why Jacob and Joseph start with “J.” Transliteration tables from many sources are included for comparison purposes. Because parents may give any name they desire, there can be no absolute rules for using Hebrew names in English (or Latin character) library catalogs. When the cataloger can not find the Latin letter version of a name that the author prefers, the cataloger uses the rules for systematic Romanization. Through the use of rules and the understanding of the history of orthography, a library research can find the materials needed. -
R. Moshe Kasirer Tikkun Leil Shavuot
ב״ה The Lincoln Square Synagogue R. Moshe Kasirer Tikkun Leil Shavuot To-Go | Home Edition חג מתן תורתינו ה׳תש״פ 2 Table of Contents A Shavuot D’var Torah (Community Intern Mindy Schwartz Zolty)...........3 Parent-Child Learning | Lying and White Lies According to Jewish Ethics (Community Intern Mindy Schwartz Zolty)................................................6 Sages Who Stray: Elisha ben Avuyah and R’ Elazar ben Arach (Community Intern Mindy Schwartz Zolty)...................................................................12 The Silent Sound - A D’var Torah for Shavuot (Rabbinic Intern Tzvi Aryeh Benoff).......................................................................................................22 Og’s Tombstone: Redemption of Prayer Beneath Sinai (Rabbinic Intern Tzvi Aryeh Benoff).............................................................................................25 Quarantine & Quackery: Halacha, Danger, and Saving Lives (Senior Rabbi Shaul Robinson)..........................................................................................36 Envisioning Sinai: Artistic Representations of Kabbalat ha-Torah (Assistant Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld)...................................................................................46 The Mountain & The Hair: Receiving and Accepting a Torah Life (Assistant Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld)...................................................................................51 Musical Interlude: Songs of Shavuot (Chazzan Yanky Lemmer)....................57 2 3 A Shavuot -
36 Years One Story
ב"ה 36 YEARS ONE STORY CHABAD OF ROCHESTER GALA DINNER Celebrating 36 Years COMMEMORATIVE JOURNAL GALA COMMITTEE Steven & Francine Barnett Dennis Kessler & Andrea Miller Norman Blaustein Gennadiy & Gitana Mirochnik Bob Cornell Dovid & Chany Mochkin Howard Crane Jessica Nussbaum Bob David Gerri Robbins Michael & Karen Dobkowski Rachel Rosen Lisa Fogel Peter & Sivan Salzman Brian Foont Ed Sassaman Ron Furman Art & Joan Segal Sorina Goldstein Bob & Sherri Simon Nestor Gandelman Barbara Sobel Larry Glass Jeff & Lyn Springut Yitzi & Rishi Hein Chaim Vogel Marvin & Tzippy Kleinberg Moshe & Chayi Vogel Sheila Konar Seth & Heather Weinstein Larry & Paulina Kovalsky Asher & Devorah Leah Yaras Cyril & Shula Meyerowitz Thomas & Netta Zahavi Steven Meyers Ed & Joyce Zinkin CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ROCHESTER 36th “Double-Chai” Anniversary Gala Dinner DAVID & JEANETTE GOLDSTEIN O.B.M. WITH JULIAN & MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN Dor L’Dor Award NEIL & SHARON NORRY O.B.M. WITH LEWIS NORRY Dor L’Dor Award RABBI NECHEMIA & MASHA VOGEL Founders Award RABBI YOSSI JACOBSON Keynote Address RUSSELL ROBERTS Master of Ceremonies WEDNESDAY EVENING 12 CHESHVAN, 5778 - NOVEMBER 1, 2017 THE WINTERGARDEN BAUSCH & LOMB PLACE THIS JOURNAL IS DEDICATED TO THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE, RABBI MENACHEM M. SCHNEERSON OF RIGHTEOUS MEMORY. HIS DEPTH OF WISDOM REMAINS AN ETERNAL SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL SUSTENANCE. HIS BELIEF IN AND COMPASSION FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL ILLUMINATES THE WORLD WITH LOVING KINDNESS. HIS PERSONAL EXAMPLE CONTINUES TO INSPIRE US, HIS WORDS CONTINUE TO RING IN OUR EARS, HIS VISION CONTINUES TO MOVE US FORWARD, AND HIS SMILE CONTINUES TO WARM OUR HEARTS. “THE STREET-LAMP LIGHTER” “... Rabbi Shalom Dovber, of saintly memory, was once asked, `What is a Chabad- Lubavitch chassid?’ He replied, `A chassid is like a street-lamp lighter’. -
Directories Lists Necrology
DIRECTORIES LISTS NECROLOGY • I 1 I I I I I I I I I i! i i i i z I I 'X I I £ BBSSSSWjWffiWyff List of Abbreviations acid. academy gen general act. active Ger. German ADL Anti-Defamation League gov governor, governing admin administrative, administration govt. government adv advisory affll affiliated Heb Hebrew agr agriculture HIAS Hebrew Sheltering and agric. agriculturist, agricultural Immigrant Aid Society Am America, American hist historical, history amb ambassador hon honorary apptd .appointed hosp hospital assoc associate, association HUC Hebrew Union College asst assistant Hung Hungarian atty attorney au author lncl including b .born ind independent bd board lnst. institute Bib Bible lnstn institution bibllog- bibliography, bibliographer instr Instructor Bklyn Brooklyn internal.. International Bur Bureau Ital Italian Can. Canada JDA Joint Defense Appeal CCAR Central Conference of JDC American Jewish Joint American Rabbis Distribution Committee chtnn. .chairman JNF Jewish National Fund CJFWF. Council of Jewish Federations JTS Jewish Theological Seminary and "Welfare Funds of America coll collector, collective, college Jurisp jurisprudence Colo Colorado JWB National Jewish Welfare com committee Board cotnm..... commission J W V Jewish War Veterans of commr commissioner America comp composer lang language cond. conductor leg legal, legislation conf conference cong. congress, congregation lit literature, literary constr.... construction, constructed contrlb.... contributor mag magazine corr. correspondent med medical mem member d. died metrop.. metropolitan dem. democrat mfr manufacture, manufacturer dept department mng managing dlr. director mngr manager dlst. district ms manuscript div division nat national econ. economic, economist NCCJ National Conference of ed. editor Christians and Jews edit. edited NCRAC. National Community Relations edltl editorial educ education Advisory Council educL educational NRA National Recovery Eng English, England Admin lstration estab establish N.T.C New York City exec executive off office, officer fd. -
Download Catalogue
F i n e Ju d a i C a . pr i n t e d bo o K s , ma n u s C r i p t s , au t o g r a p h Le t t e r s , gr a p h i C & Ce r e m o n i a L ar t K e s t e n b a u m & Co m p a n y We d n e s d a y , ma r C h 21s t , 2012 K e s t e n b a u m & Co m p a n y . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art A Lot 275 Catalogue of F i n e Ju d a i C a . PRINTED BOOKS , MANUSCRI P TS , AUTOGRA P H LETTERS , GRA P HIC & CERE M ONIA L ART Featuring: Property from the Library of a New England Scholar ——— To be Offered for Sale by Auction, Wednesday, 21st March, 2012 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand: Sunday, 18th March - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Monday, 19th March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Tuesday, 20th March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm No Viewing on the Day of Sale This Sale may be referred to as: “Maymyo” Sale Number Fifty Four Illustrated Catalogues: $38 (US) * $45 (Overseas) KestenbauM & CoMpAny Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art . 242 West 30th street, 12th Floor, new york, NY 10001 • tel: 212 366-1197 • Fax: 212 366-1368 e-mail: [email protected] • World Wide Web site: www.Kestenbaum.net K e s t e n b a u m & Co m p a n y . -
A Taste of Torah
Lech Lecha 5776 October 23, 2015 This week’s edition is dedicated in memory of Avraham Moshe ben Yehuda Leib, Mr. Bud Glassman a”h, whose 8th yahrtzeit was Tuesday, 7 Cheshvan/October 20th A Taste of Torah Stories For The Soul Spare the Wealth A Cut Above By Rabbi Mordechai Fleisher For more than sixty years, Rabbi Avram has just miraculously defeated live” is a refernce to Avram’s fear that the Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848-1932) served as a mohel. He never refused an four mighty kings. The reason for his going Egyptians would murder him to make his invitation to serve as mohel, and his to war in the first place? No, they weren’t wife available. But what is meant by “go face shone with joy when he had the trying to develop a nuclear weapon, well with me?” Rashi explains that Avram privilege of performing a bris milah on but they had just crushed the armies expected that the Egyptians would offer a Jewish child - “to add another Jew to of five other kings, and, in the process, him gifts to win his “sister’s” hand! How the King’s legions,” he would say. captured Avram’s nephew Lot. Avram felt does this jibe with the Avram who refuses responsible to rescue his nephew, and, with any recompense from the King of Sodom? Once, a huge snowstorm hit Jerusalem, leaving close to three feet of Divine intervention, he won a spectacular One approach to this conundrum may snow on the ground. Walking outside victory. be as follows: Rashi makes it clear that posed a real danger, especially for One of the five kings initially defeated when Avram went down to Egypt, he had someone of Rabbi Sonnenfeld’s age – before Avram appeared on the scene was a shortage of funds, and he incurred debts he was already in his 70’s. -
JO1993-V26-N01.Pdf
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Final Copy of Dissertation
The Talmudic Zohar: Rabbinic Interdisciplinarity in Midrash ha-Ne’lam by Joseph Dov Rosen A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Joint Doctor of Philosophy with Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley in Jewish Studies in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in Charge: Professor Daniel Boyarin, Chair Professor Deena Aranoff Professor Niklaus Largier Summer 2017 © Joseph Dov Rosen All Rights Reserved, 2017 Abstract The Talmudic Zohar: Rabbinic Interdisciplinarity in Midrash ha-Ne’lam By Joseph Dov Rosen Joint Doctor of Philosophy in Jewish Studies with the Graduate Theological Union University of California, Berkeley Professor Daniel Boyarin, Chair This study uncovers the heretofore ignored prominence of talmudic features in Midrash ha-Ne’lam on Genesis, the earliest stratum of the zoharic corpus. It demonstrates that Midrash ha-Ne’lam, more often thought of as a mystical midrash, incorporates both rhetorical components from the Babylonian Talmud and practices of cognitive creativity from the medieval discipline of talmudic study into its esoteric midrash. By mapping these intersections of Midrash, Talmud, and Esotericism, this dissertation introduces a new framework for studying rabbinic interdisciplinarity—the ways that different rabbinic disciplines impact and transform each other. The first half of this dissertation examines medieval and modern attempts to connect or disconnect the disciplines of talmudic study and Jewish esotericism. Spanning from Maimonides’ reliance on Islamic models of Aristotelian dialectic to conjoin Pardes (Jewish esotericism) and talmudic logic, to Gershom Scholem’s juvenile fascination with the Babylonian Talmud, to contemporary endeavours to remedy the disciplinary schisms generated by Scholem’s founding models of Kabbalah (as a form of Judaism that is in tension with “rabbinic Judaism”), these two chapters tell a series of overlapping histories of Jewish inter/disciplinary projects. -
Tetzaveh 5780
בס״ד TETZAVEH | PURIM [email protected] www.torahactionlife.com THE COMMUNITY Parasha Sheet LONDON’S LEADING PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS This week’s Parasha is sponsored Lirfuat Rav Yona Ben Chava Betoch Shaar Cholei Yisrael RABBI JONATHAN TAWIL th that Hashem knows, but they didn’t believe in ADAR 10 5780 Hashgachah Pratit (that Hashem intervenes with SHABBAT BEGINS: 5:35 PM the world). But when Hashem desires an individual SHABBAT ENDS: 6:38 PM DIRECTOR or a community, He changes the rules of nature to perform a miracle for them, and all false theories THE WEEKLY QUOTE TAL are disproven. The miracles proved that the world “It doesn’t matter who you are, has a Creator, He knows and He has Hashgachah where you come from. The ability Pratit over everything... ” The Ramban explains that to triumph begins with you.“ the miracles of Yetziat Mitzrayim (Exodus) were to teach us these fundamentals of Emunah. > MAZAL TOV Purim came to teach us one more essential lesson Mazal Tov to Dudi and Devorah Tangi DON’T BE ANXIOUS- BELIEVE ! in Emunah. Purim tells us that miracles are always for the birth of their daughter Brielle Noa happening with us. Even when everything seems An Iranian group is reportedly threatening to destroy natural, concealed miracles are happening, hidden > UPCOMING EVENTS what local Jews believe to be the ancient burial within the laws of nature. In the story of Purim, 20th Student Friday Night Dinner site of Queen Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan nothing was supernatural. It’s reasonable that 25th March Busy in Brooklyn in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s “Deal Achashverosh would get angry at Vashti when she of the Century” Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. -
Haredi Textbooks in Israel REINFORCING the BARRICADES
Haredi Textbooks in Israel REINFORCING THE BARRICADES Eldad J. Pardo Tehila Gamliel May 2017 Suite 15, Belgium House, Givat Ram Campus, Hebrew University Jerusalem Office/Fax: +972-2-5332497 Website: www.impact-se.org Contents 1 Executive Summary 5 Acknowledgements 6 Preface 9 Introduction 16 Research Corpus 18 Background of Haredi Education in Israel 20 Haredi Schools 28 Attitudes toward the “Other” in Haredi Education 30 Nations of the World 38 Attitude toward Arabs 47 Secularism and Modern Culture 53 Zionism and the State of Israel 61 Racism and Mizrahi Jews 70 Gender and the Status of Women 81 Conclusion and Recommendations 85 Methodology 87 List of Textbooks Executive Summary Textbooks used in the Haredi education system promote a unique and separate cultural identity while generally keeping recognition and contact with mainstream Israeli culture to a minimum. The curricula oppose modernity. Acceptance of Others is limited and unequal, depending on perceived threats to the Haredi community’s identity and its goals. Most study, particularly for boys, is conducted outside the curricula where they learn religious (mostly Torah) studies, the result of a compromise with the State of Israel; that study is generally archaic in style, using expressions and ideas common in the 1950s and 60s; and often features exaggerated, inappropriate language typically absent in newer high-quality textbooks. Anti-Semitism, Peace and Haredi Identity Hatred of the Jewish people by the “nations of the world” is understood to be a permanent historical reality. Paradoxically, this understanding, though seemingly pessimistic, is also expressed as hopeful, focusing on the victory of the spiritual over the material and advocating a mission and meaning for each person’s life.