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As part of my ongoing “Foregoing Fridays” series, I wanted to share some relevant posts I composed on my original blog in this medium: My Jewish Identity: Someone Else Articulates A Similar View [19 August 2013] A Reflection on My Use … Continue reading
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A common occurrence of human life is evaluating that which is around us, whether it be things that happen, people doing things, or other matters. This, amongst other purposes, helps us situate ourselves vis-á-vis the larger world and help us … Continue reading
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As part of my ongoing series, “Foregoing Fridays”, here are posts I’ve written on my original blog concerning Judaism/Jews and exercise: Revisiting Exercise & Judaism [22 February 2009] Preserving One’s Health from the Talmud? [12 May 2008] Jews, Exercise, and … Continue reading
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Continuing on in my Reading & Blogging the Tanya series, chapter 4 is very focussed on the fulfilling of the commandments. I will share three highlights here for me from this chapter: 1) He starts off by writing that the … Continue reading
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There is an interesting phenomenon in the Babylonian Talmud, whereby the phrase הלכך נמרינהו לתרוייהו is used to indicate that a blessing should not just be used to thank God for one thing, but actually should use two pre-existing options … Continue reading
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As part of my ongoing “Foregoing Fridays” series here, I wanted to share some posts of mine I have written on matters pertaining to Orthodoxy from my original blog and Jewlicious: Rabbi Pruzansky, Orthopraxy, and Rabbahs {Jewlicious} [12 March 2010] … Continue reading
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Continuing in my Tanya-reading project, today brings me to chapter 3. In this chapter, Rabbi Shneur Zalman focusses primarily on חכמה, בינה, and דעת, the initials of which form the acronym of חב”ד, the alternative name of Lubavitcher Hassidim. He states … Continue reading
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Not infrequently, I come across articulations in Jewish writings about the need for pluralism in the Jewish world/community and listening to peoples’ views, which is fine. However, unfortunately, the writer/speaker will usually make recourse to referring to how the Academy … Continue reading
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As part of my Foregoing Fridays series, here are posts I have written at my original blog and on the Jewlicious blog that are relevant for this medium, along the lines of matters of interest in the Jewish community: A Chabad … Continue reading
Continuing in my project to read and write about my reading the Tanya/Likkutei Amarim, here are some thoughts of mine on the second chapter. The first thing that is quite different from the first chapter to this chapter is that … Continue reading
