Category: yom yerushalayim
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Can Yerushalayim be saved again?
This is kind of a Yom Yerushalayim post, and kind of because of the chareidi nonsense going on in America today with the ‘internet asifa’ which highlights to me how messed up the whole system is. The Talmud (Gitin 56a-b) speaks about the fall of Yerushalayim in the year 70, and how Rabbi Yochanan came… Read more
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28th Iyar
Not only is today Yom Yerusahalayim and also the yarzheit of Shmuel HaNavi (as per my last blog), but my brother also told me several interesting things about the date.He claims that if you do the maths (and I’m not quite sure how to do it, but it certainly seems approximately correct) this is the… Read more
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28th Iyar – Shmuel HaNavi
Tomorrow is Yom Yerushalayim. No doubt everyone will be blogging about this important and wonderful modern festival.In my day job at Torahlab.org I have just completed (just in the nick of time) a source sheet for students and a teachers’ guide about Yom Yerushalayim. If you are a teacher, Rabbi, student or just plain interested… Read more
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Pizza for 4 with all the toppings – to take away!
Today the BBC reports: A British climber is in the closing stages of an attempt to set a world record for the highest mobile call. Rod Baber is making final preparations to scale Mount Everest and make the call from its north ridge. What I want to know is whether the pizza place will deliver… Read more