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We posed four questions to students this year and are thrilled to share some of their responses. They are offered not as conclusions, but as invitations. Consider using these questions at your seder table.
Tze ulemad (Go out and learn) is not confined to the beit midrash. It unfolds wherever honest reflection meets shared con...
Tze ulemad, often translated “Go and learn,” is used in the Passover Haggadah to introduce the verses from Deuteronomy 25:5–8 (“My father was a wandering Aramean”) and the lengthy midrashic section that follows. The process this section models is at least as important as the specific content of the texts. It is intended to be illustrative of how we go about read...
These images were selected from The Library of JTS by Rabbi Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Henry R. And Miriam Ripps Schnitzer Librarian for Special Collections of the JTS Library.
In an 18th-century mahzor from Korfu, the ancient sacrifice appears not as memory but as presence.We posed four questions to students this year and are thrilled to share some of their responses. They are offered not as conclusions, but as invitations. Consider using these questions at your seder table.
Tze ulemad (Go out and learn) is not confined to the beit midrash. It unfolds wherever honest reflection meets shared con...
This piece was adapted from a speech given at an azkarah (memorial gathering) for Rabbi Eliezer Diamond (z”l).
This year we lost a beloved teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Diamond (z”l). A longtime member of the JTS Talmud faculty, he taught with equal parts head and heart. For Rabbi Diamond, learning and teaching were devotional ente...