The six things they ask you after you die
August 14th, 2012
The Gemarra Shabbat reports (somehow) that they ask you six things after you die. What’s surprising is that they are not very religious questions…
Archive for the 'gemarra' Category
Sequence
December 29th, 2011
The rabbis and sadducees argue about there there is sequence to what happens in the Torah, in the talmud, and in our lives. Then Rav Kook brings a fascinating perspective of his own. From berachot 10a.
Two verses next to each other on a bus…
October 24th, 2011
is no coincidence at all. Or so says Rebbe Abahu… And Rav Kook brings a powerful teaching about it.
What good is halacha, anyway?
July 19th, 2011
The gemarra says that, since the Temple was destroyed, Hashem has only the 4 amot of halacha. Rav Kook unravels this mysterious statement.
Throwing heretics into pits – a modern problem
May 30th, 2011
Tosefot wonders about R’ Yehoshua b. Levi’s backing down from cursing his heretically annoying neighbor by accessing the moment (1/58,888 or 1/88,888 or 1/8888/hour) of G-d’s wrath. Why not persist, wonders Tosefot? There is, after all, precedent on gemarra AZ 26b for throwing heretics into pits and leaving them there… All this overlaps quite nicely [...]
