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This Week's Torah Portion: Shmini

Mentioning the names of those burying Aharon’s sons is a deviation from the normal way deaths are presented in the Torah. Tamar Green Eisenstat explains the middot which they represent, from humility to menschlichkeit.

Tamar Green Eisenstat

On Sefirat HaOmer

Counting Our Days: The Journey In Creating A Relationship With God

What is the purpose of verbally counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot? Why does Shavuot lack any specific mitzvot (unlike Sukkot, Pesach or Rosh HaShana)? Thoughts on Sefirat HaOmer and the journey by which we mark our relationship with God.

Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander

On Talmud

Halachic Perspectives on "Shaming" and Social Media

This sheet explores halachic principles on balancing criticism and avoiding shaming, focusing on tochecha (rebuke), halbanat panim (humiliation), and lashon hara (gossip), with applications for healthy social media use today.

Karen Miller Jackson

מתן השרון - Matan HaSharon

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Patriarchs (source sheet experiment)

Focused Explanation on the first blessing of the Amidah, Patriarchs.

Nathan Harris

• 11h

????? "in the beginning"...

-The letter that is a square closed on every side but the way creation flowS- Though it is true that no one can surf the surface of surfaces to see before creation - yet perhaps there are deeper allusions among the dangers of causing damage to the text to project your own illusion upon it. this is a thought experiment just to help guide you through some of the features of sefaria. there is no pressure to rush any of it, for the nature of the torah, the words of our sages of blessed memory, those who still may live for 120 or even 180, may the supernal will it; that a single word can provide a lifetime of every kind of jewel and every kind of wonder. too much sweetness makes one sick. it is better to study and delight at the most leisurely place and know each thing you encounter than to act with too much hunger to regurgitate that there was no chance for rumination and all the produce has been stripped from the stalks in plague. i am in the process presently of preventing my eyes from widening and trying to hitch my lips to a post. i am also in the process of learning how to use sefaria's sheets and trying to find a way to get further from moron and closer to moreh

Kelev Bar-Qymeinu

• 16h

Parashat Shmini 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת שְּׁמִינִי

Parashat Shmini / פָּרָשַׁת שְּׁמִינִי 00 Triennial Year 3

Rabbi Daniel Aronson

• 1d

What Did Nadav and Avihu Do Wrong?

Reasons for Nadav and Avihu's Deaths, Shmini

Sharon Ballan

• 1d

Shemini: Purity Test

Benjamin Adler

Adath Israel Congregation

• 1d

Parshas Shemini

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• 2d

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929/Daniel: Prayer & Mystery

Daniel and Mysticism

Israel Friedman

• 2d

פרשת שמיני - הבדלת ישראל כדי להצילם

למה גזר הקב"ה על עם ישראל את המצוות?

Yishai Klein

• 2d

Raising A Jewish Child During Difficult Times

This sheet is intended for small cohort of parents who are raising Jewish children ages 1-7 and have questions about raising children during difficult times.

Rabbi Hindy Finman she/her

JCCPGH

• 2d

Intention, kavvanah.

• 2d

tehilim

• 2d

Money Perspectives

• 2d

Crossing the Narrow Bridge - Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav 7 - Tale: The Lost Princess

An encounter with perhaps the most well-known of Rabbi Nachman's tales.

David M. Rosenberg

Jewish Child & Family Services, Chicago

• 2d

Dahlia Matanky's Senior Mishmar

Examining Judaic representations of sexual pleasure, desire, and agency.

Dahlia Matanky

• 2d

«Дни и Недели» Шмини (Омер) 5785

Personal growth: day by day from the Torah. Week by week from the Sages

Asher Altshul

Cong. Beth Shalom of Kingsbay

• 2d

Young Avraham Aveinu

Why is Avram called by God? The Torah doesn't say, but others do! Comparing stories of Avram and Terach from Rabbinic Midrash, Josephus, Jubilees, and the Koran

Dan Selsberg

• 2d

Interpreting the Prohibited Animals in Sh'mini and the Role of Blood in the Sacrificial System

This Sheet considers the relationship between those animals listed as consumable, the role of blood in sacrifices and its prohibition as a consumable. Why was Noah allowed to eat meat? Is there a connection between these laws/concepts, and the concept of God in Humash?

Charles Sheer

• 3d

A Strange Silence

A look at the death of Nadav and Avihu. What did they do (wrong)? What was Moshe's message to Aaron afterwards? What was Aaron's response

Rabbi Allan Berkowitz

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