January 2020 – Excerpted

The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli”

2 January 2020 Drew KaplanBabylonian Talmud

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[…]

“So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter”

2 January 2020 Drew KaplanJewish Community

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[…]

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Month: January 2020

The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli”

“So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter”