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Hadran ( Imperial Aramaic: הַדְרָן, lit. 'we returned') is a short prayer recited upon the completion of study of a tractate of the Talmud or a Seder of Mishnah. It is also the name of the scholarly discourse delivered at a siyum masechet, the ceremony celebrating the completion of study of a Talmudic tractate.
Mesillat Yesharim or Mesillas Yeshorim ( Hebrew: מסילת ישרים, lit. "Path of the Upright") is an ethical ( musar) text composed by the influential Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746). It is different from Luzzato's other writings, which are more philosophical . Mesillat Yesharim was written and published in Amsterdam.
Chaim ibn Attar. Chaim ibn Attar or Ḥayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar ( Arabic: حاييم بن موشي بن عطار, Hebrew: חיים בן משה בן עטר; c. 1696 – 7 July 1743) also known as the Or ha-Ḥayyim after his popular commentary on the Torah, was a Talmudist and Kabbalist. He is arguably considered to be one of the most prominent ...
Still assaulting Rafah. It was widely viewed as an unambiguous statement: The top United Nations court ordered Israel to immediately halt its military assault on Rafah — a dramatic intervention ...
Spread the word: Buzzy playwright Daf James' "On the Other Hand, We're Happy" gets a stellar U.S. premiere at L.A.'s Matrix Theatre.
Daf Yomi. Daf Yomi ( Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio ") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara ), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators examining Israeli accusations that 12 staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks have closed one case ...
Sanhedrin ( סנהדרין ) is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin (a section of the Talmud that deals with damages, i.e. civil and criminal proceedings). It originally formed one tractate with Makkot, which also deals with criminal law. The Gemara of the tractate is noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles ...