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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: REGEL REDUFIN: TALMUD YERUSHALMI PESACHIM : WOMEN'S RIGHTS 2008-04-04 18:02:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: REGEL REDUFIN: TALMUD YERUSHALMI PESACHIM : WOMEN'S RIGHTS Shalom: I hope everyone is preparing for a sweet and wondrous Passover. Many of us are scattered throughout the globe and cannot be with family, so we develop friends as surrogate family. My lovely bride is preparing dinner with another wonderful gal and 20 people are coming for Seder. Yet all are couples and none are with their children nor grandchildren nor their parents, nor siblings, including us. The Torah speaks to us of having every family having a Passover meal, with the Pascal lamb, for one's family together, and inviting another family to join, if the lamb is too much food for one family to consume. The idea of a Seder (which is Talmudic) or a Pesach meal with
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY, LET THEM ENTER AND EAT :PASSOVER 2008-04-01 14:40:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY, LET THEM ENTER AND EAT : PASSOVER : KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL Dear Editor: Passover begins sundown, April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." [KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL ] The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but of those wanting spiritual and human connection. Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh circa 3500 years ago, is re- told yearly reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only of a menu. None of us are truly free, unless all of us live in Shalom.
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: 'TOPLESS JEWS' 2008-03-31 10:28:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: 'TOPLESS JEWS' Dear Reader: From one of my students, in Brazil : Marco: Shalom:I apologize if my English is not as eloquent as Rabbi Riemer's below post. It is not my first tongue. My rabbi's wife has helped shape this for me.I read the below and many thoughts came to my head from my reading and my studies with my rabbi-teacher Dr Rabbi Arthur Segal this past year.I remember the story in the Talmud of the two young boys asked, to see if they were able to participate in a minyon, where God is.One pointed up to the ceiling, and the other went outside and pointed up to the heavens.Both where considered by the head rabbis to understand the concept of Who we worship and eventually became famous r
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: FRANCKY PEREZ HATIKVA- AM ISRAEL CHAI 2008-03-29 13:46:00 Shabbat Shalom: The below moving video was sent to me by my dear friend in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo. Click here: Video Hatikva - hatikva, israël, francky, perez, rap - Dailymotion Share Your Videos For those not aware, Hatikva is the Israeli national anthem, 'The Hope.' The text of Hatikvah was written by the Galician-Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber in Zolochiv (Ukraine) in 1878 as a nine-stanza poem named Tikvatenu ("Our Hope"). It was supposed to be an expression of his thoughts and feelings following the construction of one of the first Jewish settlements in Israel, Petah Tikvah . Published in Imber's first book, Barkai (Hebrew: ברקאי),(English: Morningstar) the poem was subsequently adopted as the anthem of Hovevei&n
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUDIC DISCOURSE: JEWISH HOLIDAYS OF NICANOR AND PURIM 2008-03-20 18:17:00 Happy Purim!! I am writing this as my fast for the fast of Esther is almost concluded as I will soon break-the-fast and make my way to Synagogue to fulfil one of the five mitzvoth of Purim, to hear the Megillah of Esther being read. We all know of Purim. But do we know of the Holiday of Nicanor, which for a time was more important than Purim to the Jewish people? Read on to learn, please. The fast of Esther is on the 13th of Adar and unlike most of our holidays and holy days, this fast does not start at sundown the evening before the day. It started at dawn today. And it ends at sundown of the day of 13th. Of course, we understand, that when sundown comes on the 13th, the 14th of Adar begins, and hence Purim begins. The Fast of
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:TALMUDIC DISCOURSE:PASSOVER,EXODUS,MOSES' SPIRITUAL AWAKENING 2008-03-06 12:47:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : TALMUDIC DISCOURSE: PASSOVER, EXODUS, MOSES' SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING Shalom Talmudim: It has been posited that the whole of Genesis is to lead our people to commit the sin against their brother Joseph, to eventually get the clan of Israel, into Egypt, and into slavery. This slavery would eventually have them yearn for liberation and acceptance of Torah. Hence Moses, a Levite son of the Israelite clan, with an Egyptian name, grew up in the house of Pharaoh, as a prince of Egypt. The Torah has to have him have an national awakening and identify with his people. Hence the verses of Exodus 2:11-15, has Moses refer to his fellow Israelites as ''brethren'' twice, and for the first time Moses actually sees their burdens and suffering.
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARC BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM 2008-03-03 17:06:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARc BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM It has been jested with the quip by the late and much-lamented Sir Isaiah Berlin ,OBM, that we Jews ''are like any other people, only more so.'' So a Jew murdering another Jew on the Holy Days at a Chabad Shul, no less over a woman (was the mechitzah not thick enough?) comes as a sad news, but as no surprise. In my 56 years I have 'seen' a Rabbi in my South NJ Temple hire a congregant to murder his wife, as a child 'seen' a married Rabbi have an affair with the married president of the sisterhood, actually seen a Rabbi and Cantor duke it out on the bimah, and have seen the worst character assassinations occur in Temples, Synagogues, Shuls and J
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARK BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM 2008-03-03 16:58:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARK BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM It has been jested with the quip by the late and much-lamented Sir Isaiah Berlin ,OBM, that we Jews ''are like any other people, only more so.'' So a Jew murdering another Jew on the Holy Days at a Chabad Shul, no less over a woman (was the mechitzah not thick enough?) comes as a sad news, but as no surprise. In my 56 years I have 'seen' a Rabbi in my South NJ Temple hire a congregant to murder his wife, as a child 'seen' a married Rabbi have an affair with the married president of the sisterhood, actually seen a Rabbi and Cantor duke it out on the bimah, and have seen the worst character assassinations occur in Temples, Synagogues, Shuls and JC
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: SUCCESS OF JEWS IN THE USA AT THE COST OF SPIRITUAL FITNESS: PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE 2008-02-26 16:34:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: SUCCESS OF JEWS IN THE USA AT THE COST OF SPIRITUAL
FITNESS: PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE Shalom: In a recently released Pew Forum report on ''Religion and Public Life'', the statistical conclusions of which are published below, we can see that Jews are fairing well in the USA. We are fairing well by the standards set by our capitalistic secular society. Let us see where we stand. We still, 100 years after the Ellis Island explosion of immigration, still have our mass population in the North East. Approximately a quarter of us live in the West and the South and a sprinkling of us in the Mid West, mostly in the major cities. We are evenly spread out over all age groups with almost as many young Jews and elderly. And we are almost evenly sp
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BERACHA HA GOMEL: JEWISH PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING 2008-02-25 22:49:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BERACHA HA GOMEL: JEWISH PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Monday, February 25, 2008 In Vayikra (Leviticus) 7:11-12 we read "This is the law of the zevach shlamim, peace offering, that one will bring to God when he brings it as a thanksgiving offering." According to Rashi, of circa 1000 years ago, one brings the offering ''regarding a matter of thanksgiving for a miraculous act which occurred to him such as if he returned from a sea voyage, crossed the desert, was healed from an illness or emerged from priso
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TWAS A CHANCE FOR TWO SHEHECHEYANU / LAST BITE OF PASSOVER 2008-02-21 09:28:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TWAS A CHANCE FOR TWO SHEHECHEYANU / LAST BITE OF PASSOVER ''Tonight 2/20/08 is the full lunar eclipse at 9:00 PM. The nextone won't be for two years so don't miss the chance to say a shehecheyanu!'' Shalom: Last night's eclipse was marvelous especially when the moon turned blood red. But while our eclipse will come again in two years, we Jews had another shehecheyanu to say yesterday. Yesterday was the celebration of Purim Katan, as it was Adar One 14. There's a strong connection between Purim and Purim Katan. The Talmud teaches teaches: "There is no difference between the first Adar (Purim) and the second Adar (Purim) , but the reading of the Megillah and the distribution of gifts
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: ON PURIM, LOTS, AND BALLOTS 2008-02-20 22:46:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: ON PURIM, LOTS, AND BALLOTS Dear Editor: The Jewish Holiday, Purim (3/21/07), celebrating victory of Persian Jews against their planned destruction circa 357 BCE, is discussed in the Book of Esther. Their nemesis, Haman, cast lots (purim) to determine the date of the annihilation. Purim also means ''ballots.'' Every four years we are concerned about our democracy. 76 years before Athenian democracy, Babylonian Jews, developed majority rule in their academies and courts. The commandments of working towards justice falls upon Jews each day and not just when voting. "If your brother becomes poor, and his means of support fail, you&n
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TORAH COMPENDIUM: TORAH PORTIONS: PARASHA: JEWISH HOLIDAYS 2008-02-17 12:45:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TORAH COMPENDIUM: TORAH PORTIONS: PARASHA: JEWISH HOLIDAYS A COMPENDIUM TO THE TORAH FROM AN ETHICAL SPRITUAL AND RENEWAL JUDAIC POINT OF VIEW, DRAWING ON TALMUDIC, MIDRASHIC, AND RABBINIC REFERENCES FROM POST TALMUDIC TO MODERN TIMES. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE EVERY PARASHA, [TORAH PORTION] FOR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES [CHUMASH] CLICK ON THE BLUE VERBIAGE FOR THE ONE OF THE FIVE BOOKS YOU WISH,(HINT: THE FIRST LINE OF THE BLUE WORDS ON THE YELLOW BACKGROUND ARE THE LINK, WHILE THE OTHERS WORDS, SEEM TO NOT LINK ONE ANYWHERE), AND A HYPERLINK WILL APPEAR. THEN CLICK ON THAT, AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO CHUMASH CANDESCENCE OF RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL, AND THEN CLICK ON ANY PARASHA YOU WISH TO READ AND STUDY. HINT: CLICK ON THE TOP LINE OF THE BLUE ON
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : TORAH : RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL 2008-02-16 17:28:00 DEAR READER: PLEASE SCROLL THRU THESE GOOGLE HITS TO GET TO THE D'VRAI TORAH ON THE PARASHAT IN CHUMASH CANDESCENCE, AS WELL AS TALMUDIC DISCOURSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS. THIS SEEMED TO NEED TO BE DONE TO ALLOW GOOGLE AND OTHER SEARCH ENGINES TO LET THOSE SEARCHING FOR ESSAYS ON THE TORAH PORTIONS TO COME TO OURS. THANK YOU, SHALOM, RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL. Web Results 1 - 100 of about 893 for "RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL". (0.17 seconds) Rabbi Arthur Segal: RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL Posted by Rabbi Arthur Segal at Friday, February 15, 2008 ... Rabbi Arthur Segal: United States: I am available for Shabbatons,and can speak on various ...rabbiarthursegal.blogspot.com/2008/02/rabbi-arthur-segal.html - 60k - 21 hours ago - Cac
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: A STILL SMALL VOICE: FORWARD 2008-02-16 14:54:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: A STILL SMALL VOICE: FORWARD God speaks to all us all the time with a 'still small voice.' as he did to Elijah. (1 Kings 19: 12). The Hebrew word for Prophet is Nevi, which is derived from the word for 'open.' We need to be an open channel to be able to hear God. If we are blocked with ego, pride, resentments, fears, selfishness, and belligerent denial of God, we will not hear a word from God. God never turns his back on us, but we, with false pride, or 'righteous anger,' turn our faces from Him. When we do so, who are we facing? God took us out of Mitzraim, the land of Egypt, the land of the 'narrow space', because that is exactly what the Hebrew word for Egypt means. Yet how many of us have put ourselves ba
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: SHAVOUT PARASHAT 2008-02-16 13:45:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: SHAVOUT PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCESPECIAL SHAVUOT TORAH READINGSEXODUS 19:01-20:23NUMBERS 28:26-31DEUTERONOMY 14:22-16:17EZEKIEL 1:1-28,3:12HABBAKKUK 2:20-3:19BOOK OF RUTHRABBI ARTHUR SEGAL "Kosher X-Files with Jewish Men in Black""Ezekiel saw da wheel" is how the African American spiritual begins.Moses saw the Burning Bush. The Children of Israel saw Mt. Sinai "smoke"and "shudder" amidst "thunder and lightning" and "powerful shofar blasts"(Deut. 19:16-18). The themes of the above portions of the Tanach (HolyScriptures), which make up this Shavuot's and Shabbat's Torah andHaftorah readings deal with revelation and theophany. Theophany is the appearanceof God to man. Shavuot is the holiday that celebrates God's revealing theTorah
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PESACH PARASHAT 2008-02-16 13:24:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PESACH PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCESPECIAL PARASHA "SEGMENTS" =EXODUS 33:12-34:26 andNUMBERS 28:19-25SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL"Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dried Bones""God ...set me down in the valley, which was full of bones...they werevery abundant... they were very dry...Oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord:I will bring spirit into you and you shall live. I shall put sinews...and flesh...and skin over you. I open your graves and raise you from your graves...and I shall bring you to the Land of Israel." This quotation is from this week's Haftorah found in Ezekiel 37:1-14. It was established as thisSabbath's reading from the Prophets due to its parallel to Passover, our
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: ROSH HASHANAH PARASHAT 2008-02-16 13:06:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: ROSH HASHANAH PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCEROSH HASHANAHSPECIAL READINGS:GENESIS 21:1-341 SAMUEL 1:1-2:10NUMBERS 29:1-6GENESIS 22:1-24JEREMIAH 31:1-19RABBI ARTHUR SEGALHAPPY NEW YEAR !!! LA SHANA TOVA !!!!!"We Can't Return, We Can Only Look, Behind from Where We Came"SYNOPTIC ABSTRACT:On many Jewish holidays there are special sections of parashat read thathelp us to remember themes of the holidays. The theme of God's mercy andkindness is woven throughout these special readings. Genesis 21 tells ofSarah, a 90-year old woman, giving birth to Isaac. It also tells of Hagarand Ishmael being expelled by Abraham at his wife's insistence. Godrescues them in the desert. Genesis 22 tells of the binding of Isaac,Abraham's faith in God, and God'
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL :CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: DEUTERONOMY: DEVARIM :TABLE OF CONTENTS 2008-02-15 17:05:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: DEUTERONOMY: DEVARIM :TABLE OF CONTENTS (PARASHAT) RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA DEVARIM :DEUTERONOMY 1:01-3:22 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA VA'ET-CHANAN:DEUTERONOMY 3:23- 7:11 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA EIKEV: DEUTERONOMY 7:12-11:26 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA RE'EH: DEUTERONOMY 11:26-16:17 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA SHOFTIM: DEUTERONOMY 16:18-21:09 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL :CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA KI TEITZEI: DEUTERONOMY 21:10-25:19 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENSE: PARASHA KI SAVO:DEUTERONOMY 26:01-29:08 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE PA
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL CHAZAK! CHAZAK! VENITCHAZEIK! BE STRONG! BE STRONG! AND MAY WE BE STRENGTHENED! 2008-02-15 16:56:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL :CHAZAK! CHAZAK! VENITCHAZEIK! BE STRONG! BE STRONG! AND MAY WE BE STRENGTHENED! The Conclusion of Deuteronomy - Devarim Dedication This fifth book of five, of the Five Books of Moses, Chumash Candescence, has been seven years in the making. Its long awaited serialization on the Web has finally arrived, with the other one book, G!D willing, to follow. Chumash Candescence is the first full compendium to the Torah studying in detail each Parasha, with references to the Talmud, Midrash, and other Rabbinic sources, from post-Talmudic times to the present, from a Jewish Renewal, Spiritual and Modern point of view. It is part of a greater Text that will be soon published in book form, with profi
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PARASHA VEZOT HA'BERACHAH: DEUTERONOMY 33:01-34:12 2008-02-15 16:52:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : CHUMASH CANDESCENCE : PARASHA VEZOT HA'BERACHAH : DEUTERONOMY 33:01-34:12 Please join together in prayers to God as we end Sukkoth, for Him toshelter all of mankind in His tent of peace. May all of the children ofAbraham, Jews and Arabs, and yes, even Jews with Jews, learn to lovepeace and pursue peace. Amen.CHUMASH CANDESCENCEHOSHANNAH RABBAH(10/20)SHEMINI ATZERET(10/21)SIMCHAT TORAH(10/22)PARASHA VEZOT HA'BERACHAHRABBI ARTHUR SEGAL"Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land"SYNOPTIC ABSTRACT:This is the last portion of the Chumash (the Five Books of Moses). Mosesblesses each of the tribes of Israel individually. But did Moses blessALL twelve? When he is through with his farewell blessings, Mosesascends Mount Nebo, sees the land of Israel from this moun
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER 2008-04-08 07:51:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor No one is truly free until all live in peace Published Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Comment on this | Email it | Print it | Feeds | | | | | | | Passover begins sundown April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but also of those wanting spiritual and human connection. The story of Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh 3,500 years ago, is retold yearly, reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. ''A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only o
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BOB DYLAN + MARLON BRANDO AT PASSOVER SEDER 2008-04-07 10:06:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BOB DYLAN + MARLONBRANDO
AT PASSOVER SEDER This was published last year in the LA Jewish Journal and this year some other papers are running it. It is such a weird juxtaposition of people----Dylan, Brando. Louis Kemp, of Kemp Seafoods, the author, is not lying about being Bob Dylan's childhood friend--he is mentioned in all Dylan bios By Louie Kemp You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most. I got to know Marlon about 30 years ago through a mutual friend. His son, Christian, came to work for me in fisheries I owned in Alaska and Minnesota. Marlon
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: DINA DE MALCHUTA DINA [ THE LAW OF THE LAND IS THE LAW ] OR NASATA VE NATATA BE EMUNAH [ DID YOU CONDUCT BUSINESS HONESTLY ] OR 2008-04-11 16:06:00 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: DINA DE MALCHUTA DINA [ THE LAW OF THE LAND IS THE LAW ] OR NASATA VE NATATA BE EMUNAH [ DID YOU CONDUCT BUSINESS HONESTLY ] OR BOTH? BUYING DISCOUNTED FORECLOSED HOMES. I read recently of a Jewish real estate investor being brought before a Bet Din, a Jewish Court, because he was buying foreclosed homes, at very discounted prices. While this was perfectly legal under his State and Federal law, was it 'kosher' under Jewish ethics? There is an old tradition, when Jews in their own communities inside the greater communities at large, judged themselves. It was considered Chilul ha Shem, (desecration of God's name) for a Jew to bring another Jew into a secular court for adjudication. And so batai din (Jewish courts
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