The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli”
The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of knew to expect this—forgive me if what follows sounds hopelessly naïve—but I was struck by how the event had no educational character. If I had been on the planning committee, there would have been all kinds of things that would have […]continued…
“So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter”
So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter. It is so inefficient, so attenuated by the entropy of contemporary society, and still overwhelmed by (post-)Christian assumptions and patterns of thought and behavior that define the West. Rabbi Ethan Tucker, Facebook post (2 January 2020) [https://www.facebook.com/ethan.m.tucker/posts/10156848432465976]continued…