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Rabbi Sedley: Near Miss Phew! That was a close thing! Cyber pirates tried to hack into an Israeli website, but accidentally hijached the website of a stately home in Israel, according to the Daily Telegraph. I hope this is another encouraging sign for the peace process. If the ...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 4:16am -07:00T (233 words)
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Rabbi Sedley: Avodah Zara 10a and Jesus This week in Daf Yomi we learned a lot about Romans. One of the things that Rashi cites on daf 10a is that the Romans have no language or script of their own. For anyone, like me, who spent years studying Latin and learning Virgil, Cattallus, or any of th...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 4:16am -07:00T (142 words)
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Rabbi Sedley: We are worthy! Remember that classic line from Wayne's World - "We are not worthy"? Well sometimes I also feel like that.I was reading Shivchei HaBesht and came across this quote, which I found very powerful. If you have ever been depressed and wondered whether G-d want...
Dateline: 2010-08-07 11:46pm -07:00T (283 words)
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Rabbi Sedley: Kosher music I know that this is not new news, but I actually just saw this hechsher today.It seems that the main source for his opinions is not the Talmud or Shulchan Aruch, but American Preachers. (Though I can't even find a source for his claim that the saxophone w...
Dateline: 2010-07-25 1:01am -07:00T (263 words)
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Rabbi Sedley: Where was everyone when they were banning alcohol? According to the Jerusalem Post the Knesset has unanimously passed a law banning the sale of alcohol at night.By a unanimous vote of 38- 0, MKs outlawed the sale of alcohol at stores between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.Restaurants and pubs are not cove...
Dateline: 2010-07-24 11:46pm -07:00T (304 words)
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Rabbi Sedley: Shani's bat mitzvah Here is the video of Shani's bat mitzvah. She looked great, and is great (actually, wonderful)Here is the text of her d'var Torah - it is a little bit difficult to hear her:Good evening everybody. Thank you all so much for coming.For the past several mont...
Dateline: 2010-07-18 3:33am -07:00T (1745 words)
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