![]() The only significant difference between my two study experiences was the study hall in Jerusalem had no heat. Thing like, say, quotation marks and periods!) Now, in case you’d care to read more of the story, I’ll continue …īoth of these study halls where I studied Talmud were always abuzz at certain times each day with the murmuring sounds of students studying in chevruta (pairs of 2, sometimes 3) - as they struggled to merely decipher the byzantine words of a text that is 35 volumes long, 2,000 years old in thought and ideology, and which alternates between Aramaic and rabbinic Hebrew without any warning at all (including punctuation that is surprising helpful. Up until now, it is a practice done faithfully by Orthodox men, and outside of that, largely only by non-Orthodox rabbis, doctoral candidates, or uber-Jews who have a lot more time on their hands than I ever have … If you stick with it, the entire cycle takes 7.5 years. What is “Daf Yomi” you might ask? Why thank you for asking! Daf Yomi is a practice that began, for the first time ever, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah 5684 ( 11 September 1923), when tens of thousands of Jews in Europe, America, and Israel decided they would all study one page of Talmud one day. In other words, the exact opposite way it has pretty much ever been taught!ĭoes such an online learning opportunity exist out there? In English? That is what this blog post is hoping to uncover! I’m looking any online teacher of Daf Yomi who approach it from a modern, progressive, humanist, secular, and scientific, scholarship-based approach. )īut no matter which continent I was on, I found the entire process suffocating.īefore I share my story, I’d like to state my appeal upfront: Especially when it comes to women’s yeshivas, at least at that time …. And it was the ONLY one, first in the world in fact, to be co-ed! (Separate is never equal sorry folks. I had the - let’s say - requirement to study Talmud for two semesters, one at an American rabbinical college and another at an Israeli co-ed yeshiva that was, relative to all the other options in Israel in 1998, about as progressive as a person could hope to get. Like most modern Jews who even know what it is, I have a fairly meh attitude when it comes to the Talmud.* **In red are more extraneous thoughts safe to skip - for those who prefer a shorter read. I can also only offer this for weddings in the Philadelphia area or South Jersey, unless you cover any added travel expenses.Ĭheck out my dozens of reviews on Wedding Wire under “Secular Jewish Irish Intrerfaith weddings.” If you’d like to learn more, contact me through that site or through here. My ceremonies are pretty mutch the antithesis of the classic church service - with two people incidentially getting married in the middle of a lot of God talk … Whatever category they fall under, my overall emphasis in all my ceremonies is on love, your unique love story, and the importance of love, family, and community to make a meangful life. I can offer Jewish, interfaith, or “spiritual but not religious”-type ceremonies. As I typically charge $1200 for a wedding, this is just a modest token to try to help repair a terrible injustice perpetratrated by fellow professionals in my industry. If YOU have been robbed of thousands of dollars from Noahs Event Planning (proof of a deposit and contract will be required) - I am willing to officate your ceremony for free. And because of a close family friend I have who has spent his career as a lawyer specifically fighting consumer fraud exactly like this one - I happen to know that Utah is the state that, per capita, has the largest number of illegal businesses, overall consumer fraud (especially targeting the poor and elderly), and Ponzi schemess, than any state in America. If you wonder why I say “of course!” in relationship to the company’s Utah origins, early reports are saying that the whole place was basicallya Ponzi scheme that benefited a tiny select few. That is a true “nightmare” - in every sense of the word. Some of these couples had ceremonies only a few weeks away, 260 guests who have bought plane tickets, and have no venue! Most couples, Business Insider reports, will never get their deposits back, which often ranged from $7000 to $12000. Today I awoke to the shocking news that Noah’s Event Venue, a bargain-priced wedding and corporate event venue begun in Utah (of course!), has declared bankruptcy. ![]()
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