Jewish “The tradition of blessing a person to live to 120 years, as a way of wishing someone long life, only began in the last few hundred years” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2020 The tradition of blessing a person to live to 120 years, as a way...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud “A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud “The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
Anti-Semitism “…the most morally instructive thing about studying the Nazis now: we can see how tightly the elimination of the Jews was bound to a hatred of cosmopolitanism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2020 In the nineteenth century, they arrived, before anyone else, at an understanding that, in...
Journalism, Orthodoxy “When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2020 In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
Babylonian Talmud “the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2020 The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
Mishnah, Tannaitic Literature “The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical in hypothetical discourse of the Mishnah” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 February 2020 The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical...
Babylonian Talmud, Haredim/Haredi-ism, Jewish Community The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp...
Halakhah, Jewish, Politics in America “When you vote, you hopefully evaluate the full gamut of issues and discover that on some issues one party’s views are more in accordance with Torah and on others it is the other party’s, and often neither are” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 December 2019 I understand that we have both College Democrats and College Republicans chapters on our...