Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Picture

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I saw this beautiful picture the other day of an artist illuminating a Megillah. Enjoy
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Jpost: Torah scroll held captive by Iraqi secret police restored for use in Foreign Ministr

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  A Torah scroll written some 150 to 200 years ago in Iraq but which fell captive to the Iraqi secret police has been resto...
Monday, January 19, 2015

70-Year-Old Mezuzah in Perfect Condition Found in Poland

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As part of project to memoralize Jews who disappeared in Holocaust, remarkable discovery made on doorpost in Przemysl. http://www.israel...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Judaica: The World's Most Expensive Aron Kodesh

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Last week,  Christie's sold a famous Rotschild Aron Kodesh  for a whopping U$1,565,000, a record for a Judaica item. While it's a...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Column 3 of 214

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Column 2 of 214

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Time to update and post here my progress. I fixed a mistake in the line that starts with Hashem Elohim - BH the fixing didn't leave mar...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Girsology blog

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I'm a longtime fan of the parshablog , where Rabbi Josh Waxman often writes about mesorah and scribal oddities in the Torah. He stands o...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Chagiga 15b - the shape of the Lamed

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Today's Daf, while discussing the sages of different centuries, says: איה סופר המגדלים שהיו שונים שלוש מאות הלכות במגדל הפורח באויר ...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Tzitzis - wool, cashmere, cotton or silk?

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As I wrote my Sefer Torah, I often look topically in a few commentaries to further understand the text and be more focused. I'm now ...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Amazing Megillot 12: Yonah Weinrib

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Rabbi Yonah Weinrib is a great illuminator and also a very knowledgeble scholar who adds explanations next to his works. My Bar M...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Book Review: Sacred Monsters by N. Slifkin

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As I was writing Parshat Bereishit in my ongoing Sefer Torah project, one theme stood out from the story of creation: the Bnei Elohim. Th...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Hamas in Scripture

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As Israel gets more and more entangled in what looks like a full blown war with Hamas, I got to the pasuk which mentions the very name...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

My progress: Parshat Bereishit is done!

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Today is BH a special day for me as I finished the first Parsha of my Sefer Torah - parshat Bereishit. I never thought I would actuall...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Christie's sells a Chumash from 1400's for record price

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The Chumash was sold for almost 4 million dollars, above the 2 million estimate. It is just like a Torah Scroll, but with vowelization, cant...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Purim Codes from Megillat Esther

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Old Torah Scroll

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Last week I was approached by a Christian Copt, who was offering this Torah Scroll for sale. This Torah was missing one Eitz Chayim and ...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Yoma 70a - the miztva of "showing off" your Torah Scroll

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Here's an interesting anecdote from the Daf Yomi of last month. In Yom Kippur, all (yes, all) the people that were in the temple for the...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Mezuza Case in Ktav Ivri

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This is an interesting Mezuza case - instead of the usual Shin Daled Yud (or in many cases, just the Shin), it has the equivalent letters ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Column 1 of 214

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I will be posting each column here, and I'm happy to hear feedback. In the third day, it's missing a few words, which I will compl...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Judaica

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A childhood friend of mine started this interesting Judaica website featuring Hebrew calligraphy works by his late grandfather. They have ...