[A glossary and analysis by Hoffman  follows this article]  The Key To Becoming A Talmid Chacham 5Towns Jewish Times | Feb. 19, 2009 Kindly take a moment to study Mishnas Chayim in the merit of Esther Devorah bas Chayim, a’h, a fellow Jew who passed away with no relatives to arrange Torah study ...

So here is a Antisemitic website which tries to prove that the gemara subscribed to the doctrine of Jewish Supremacy. I am sure you have all seen these, there are so many of these on the web. And here is an Orthodox Jewish website trying to reject these accusations and explain the gemara's stat...

 There is a popular argument for the veracity of Judaism and it goes something like this.  The Jews have survived for so long in galus. A small nation, a tiny fraction of the world's population, statistically speaking, the Jews should have long ago been assimilated or destroyed. ...

I made siyum with J yesterday. It was also (I realized) my first gemaranniversary--the first time I opened a gemara and learned, and jumped into the daf yomi cycle. Yevamot it was. Thank you J for your nonstop kvetching and making it happen. Got a generally positive response to my devar Torah, so I ...

COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO - I have now, through God's assistance, completely finished Judaism Discovered, wherein I will present both to your judgment as well as my poor ability and other interloping employments would permit, the unlawfulness, paganism, and anti-gentile and anti-Biblical qualities and ef...

by Michael A. Hoffman II Copyright © 2008www.RevisionistHistory.org We live in an upside-down mirror world where white is called black and black is white and the truth is the least precious of all the commodities marketed in America mystica. On that blasted stage stands John Hagee, the physically a...

 The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) people came out with another class, Ethics of the Talmud.  It is an excellent example of what bothers people most about kiruv & shlichus classes.  Over six weeks, the not-yet-frum Jew, who has never ...

Joe emails: "KBY had to fire a number of their teachers after the Rabin assasination, but still seems to have an unfortunate racist bent. I was stunned to see this up, and on Hirhurim as well." From Rosh Hayeshiva Harav Mordechai Greenberg, shlita, at Kerem B’Yavneh website: The more...

On Berachot 58b: Samuel contrasted two texts. It is written, Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades. And it is written elsewhere, That maketh Pleiades and Orion. How do we reconcile these? Were it not for the heat of Orion the world could not endure the cold of Pleiades; and were it not for th...

The Mishna (Nedarim 90b) stated: At first they said that the following three women must be divorced and they also receive their kesuvah: One (a wife of a Kohen) who declares, “I am defiled to you (I have been violated forcibly by another man),� or “Heaven is between me and you (my husband is i...