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A Torah '.'_:, Perspective/.• i"O:l • s& uali Fit for a Welcome to the world of Royal, where the consumer is king. Royal Kosher Poultry is under Star-K Certifi­ cation. For taste and tenderness, and the toughest levels of kashrus inspection in the industry, Royal is the one. Under Star-K Kosher Certification-Rabbi Moshe Heinemann, Rabbinic Administrator WISH BSE R THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN) 0021-6615 is published monthly except July and August by the Agudath Israel of America, 84 William Street, New York, N.Y. 10038. Second class postage paid in New York, N.Y. Subscription $22.00 per year; two years, $36.00; three years, $48.00. Outside of the United States (US funds drawn on a US bank only) $12.00 surcharge per year. Single copy $3.00; foreign 5 $4.00. Send address changes to: The Jewish Family Values: A Torah Perspective, Observer, 84 William Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10038. Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller Tel: (212) 797-9000. 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N.Y.C public schools, I knew many though it failed miserably at the polls, In fact, this topic deserves serious people, both Jews and non-Jews, but it set off a great deal of serious discus­ discussion even (or perhaps more so) I did not know of one divorced fam­ 2 sion in some unexpected quarters • in our circles. We sometimes make ily-not among the Jews and not In the words of Albert Shanker, the mistake of thinking that we are among the non-Jews. Today. I know president of the American Federation immune to the ills of contemporary quite a few-even among "unzere of Teachers, in an ad in the New Re­ Yidden_" In addition, there are many public (Nov. 30, '92): 1 As the reader will remember, former Vice-Presi­ other problems that 1 never heard "When the Republicans began dent Dan Quayle canied the bannerofFamilyVal~ about when I went to public high­ stressing traditional family values in ues in his campaign. school. which I hear about now-not the recent presidential campaign, they 2 Editor's note: A wide-ranging article on the dain­ only among the general populace, but go( a lot offlnk. Nevertheless, they were aging effects that single-parent upbringing can have on children and on society in general was fea­ amongftwnJews. Rabbi Keller, Rosh Hayeshiva ofTelshe-Chicago. tured in Atlantic Monthly. Aplil '9~3: "Dan Quayle It is obviously true that, Baruch is a frequent contributor to The Jewish Obsemer. Was Right,~ by Barbara Dufoe Whitehead. Hashem, there ts a great gulf between TheJewtshObseroer, May 1993 5 "us" and "them."The New York Times They come from the spiritual waste­ reported (October 20, "92): land outside, into homes where there 'The traditional American Family is respect and communication be­ has declined so fw- in New York City. tween husband and wife and between that married couples with their own parents and children. They see fami­ children now constitute only one sixth lies sitting about the table on ofhouseholds. Thetrendisneithernew nor peculiar to New York. Bui a new Shnbbos enjoying each other's com­ cmalysis ofthe 1990 census hasfowul pany, and speaking of higher things that the typical family has been radi· in life. When people searching for cally redefmed. The share of manied some meaning to life are exposed to a couples living with their own children in .family, let alone a family in the con­ the city declined from 19.2% of all text of Shnbbos, they become aware households in 1980 to less than 17% in of a whole, new, and beautiful world. 1990. Among the nation's mqjorcities. it appears that the percentage qf so­ And this has brought them closer to called 'traditionalfwnil.ies' was lower Torah. It hasn't been lectures on phi­ only in San Francisco." losophy or religion, in many cases, This is what is happening out but the vel)' fact that they saw that there. ll'j7'm:t1Vi"lr.l1l'"WN, How fortu· there is a different dimension to fam­ nate we are that, indeed, for the most ily life, that there is a zevach part, we do have families, and what We sometimes make the mishpachn. that has changed their beautiful families! We do have chil­ lives. We dare not confuse the world's dren, and our children live normal mistake of thinking that definition of family with ours and be lives: they get married and generally satisfied with their definition.
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    CONTENTS 4 | ELEVATING EISAV D’var Malchus / Sichos in English 10 | IN THE Z’CHUS OF SPREADING YIDDISHKAIT Letters of the Rebbe MH”M U.S.A 12 | BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME 744 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409 19 Kislev / Rabbi Chaim Ashkenazi Tel: (718) 778-8000 Fax: (718) 778-0800 [email protected] 18 | SHLUCHIM IN ACADEMIA www.beismoshiach.org Shlichus / Shai Gefen ERETZ HA’KODESH 72915 s cj rpf 102 /s/, 26 | ‘NO MORE WILL LIONS ROAR’ (03) 9607-290 :iupky Insight / Shai Gefen (03) 9607-289 :xep EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: 31 | THE REBBE’S DIRECT INVOLVEMENT M.M. Hendel Story / Nosson Avrohom ENGLISH EDITOR: Boruch Merkur 33 | THE GAON & TZADDIK: RABBI ELIYAHU [email protected] ELIEZER DESSLER ZATZAL Feature / Rabbi Shalom Ber Wolpo Beis Moshiach (USPS 012-542) ISSN 1082-0272 is published weekly, 36 | HIS FIRST PRAYER: SAVE ME FROM THESE ANGRY except Jewish holidays (only once in April and October) for $130.00 in MONKEYS! Crown Heights, $140.00 in the USA Profile / Nosson Avrohom & Canada, all others for $150.00 per year (45 issues), by Beis Moshiach, 40 | WE STILL HAVE OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US 744 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Shleimus HaAretz / Shai Gefen 11213-3409. Periodicals postage paid at Brooklyn, NY and additional offices. 43 | A STORY UNEARTHED Postmaster: send address changes to Story / Chana Katz Beis Moshiach 744 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213-3409. Beis Moshiach is not responsible for the content of the advertisements. © Copyright 2004 by Beis Moshiach, Inc D’VAR MALCHUS ELEVATING EISAV SICHOS IN ENGLISH SHABBOS PARSHAS Yisroel and the events which and are necessary to appreciate by VAYISHLACH; 14TH DAY OF transpired afterwards with what way of contrast the chronicles of KISLEV, 5751 appears to be a totally tangential Yaakov.
  • The Babylonian Talmud

    The Babylonian Talmud

    The Babylonian Talmud translated by MICHAEL L. RODKINSON Book 10 (Vols. I and II) [1918] The History of the Talmud Volume I. Volume II. Volume I: History of the Talmud Title Page Preface Contents of Volume I. Introduction Chapter I: Origin of the Talmud Chapter II: Development of the Talmud in the First Century Chapter III: Persecution of the Talmud from the destruction of the Temple to the Third Century Chapter IV: Development of the Talmud in the Third Century Chapter V: The Two Talmuds Chapter IV: The Sixth Century: Persian and Byzantine Persecution of the Talmud Chapter VII: The Eight Century: the Persecution of the Talmud by the Karaites Chapter VIII: Islam and Its Influence on the Talmud Chapter IX: The Period of Greatest Diffusion of Talmudic Study Chapter X: The Spanish Writers on the Talmud Chapter XI: Talmudic Scholars of Germany and Northern France Chapter XII: The Doctors of France; Authors of the Tosphoth Chapter XIII: Religious Disputes of All Periods Chapter XIV: The Talmud in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Chapter XV. Polemics with Muslims and Frankists Chapter XVI: Persecution during the Seventeenth Century Chapter XVII: Attacks on the Talmud in the Nineteenth Century Chapter XVIII. The Affair of Rohling-Bloch Chapter XIX: Exilarchs, Talmud at the Stake and Its Development at the Present Time Appendix A. Appendix B Volume II: Historical and Literary Introduction to the New Edition of the Talmud Contents of Volume II Part I: Chapter I: The Combination of the Gemara, The Sophrim and the Eshcalath Chapter II: The Generations of the Tanaim Chapter III: The Amoraim or Expounders of the Mishna Chapter IV: The Classification of Halakha and Hagada in the Contents of the Gemara.