New American By Alex Newman April 1, 2016 ORIGINAL Psych meds for kids at gunpoint will no longer be tolerated, at least in one state. A powerful new law to protect children from coercive psychiatric screening and drugging was approved last year by the state of New Mexico. And now, advocates hope to provide similar protections for kids, families and parental rights across the remaining 49 states. As […]
Now consider Tefillin: Judaism by definition is historical. The story begins with Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov and then continues with Yaakov’s children, describing their descent into Egypt. It is not reasonable to think that the Galut, the Diaspora in Egypt would not affect the lives of Yaakov’s descendants in Egypt. It is also apparent that Moshe, Aharon, and the Elders who attended court visits to the Pharaoh saw […]
ישיבת מיר הרב יוסף ד. עפשטיין – ה מ ש ך – הדרך לווילנא לא קלה הייתה. עם זרמי פליטי החרב מחלק הכיבוש הגרמני משובשות היו הדרכים, ובמסילות הברזל נהרו פליטים חוזרי המלחמה של הצבא הפולני שגם בתבוסתם לא שכחו מלהראות את אנטישמיותם. התנועה הופרעה תכופות ונאלצו להתגורר ארוכות על רצפות בתי התחנות. בתוך הקרונות הייתה צפיפות נוראה. ובלב מלא פחד התקרבו לווילנא. בחצי אוקטובר כבר הייתה כל […]
July 18, 2016 by Yael Shahar 0 Comments This essay came out of a discussion on the Online Havruta Talmud Study Group. I would like to thank participants Claire Benneth, Kenneth Chan, Abraham Khan, and Karla Worrell for insights that shaped the discussion. One of the most quoted Talmudic stories is the story of the Tanur shel Akhnai—the “oven of Akhnai”. The story tells of a debate […]
Parkoff Letters Table Of Contents Column 1 Column 2 A Time to Laugh Music and the Brain About Our Logo Musical Interlude Artificial Intelligence Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks COMPLEXITY Rules and Systems Conceptual Systems and Logical Analysis Technology, Science and Psychology Ecology and BioDiversity TED TALKS Economics and Law Tefillin and The Egyptian Experience English The Human Mind and Learning English and American Law The Internet and Linked […]
Take the Two Eyes of Horus…to your forehead “Take the two Eyes of Horus, the black and the white. Take them to your forehead, (so) that they may illuminate your face.” gp: This inscription comes from the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, translated by Breasted, Faulkner, and Gardiner and and other eminent Egyptologists. It is haunting and stunning to those learned in the Torah. Please click on the following […]
Rabbi Hayyim Hirschensohn – The Forgotten Sage Who Was Rediscovered Dr. David Zohar, a clinical psychologist from Tel Aviv, Israel, founded a project to republish an updated version of Rabbi Hayyim Hirschensohn’s writings. The objective is to bring these works to the public’s knowledge, as they can offer a modern religious Jew ways in which one can combine modern values together with Jewish Values. This new version […]
Judaism is unique in its teaching that study is not merely a means but an end, not merely an end among ends, but the highest and noblest of human aspirations. Study of torah for its own sake is a sacramental act, the great of all mizvot. Throughout the generations Torah scholars were willing to live in poverty and deprivation in order to devote themselves to study. Every Jew, […]
By Jane Collingwood ~ 3 min read New research on children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder has found a deficiency of a necessary brain chemical. Children with ADHD appear to have nearly 50 percent lower levels of an amino acid called tryptophan, a protein which helps in the production of dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin. It also is important for attention and learning. Jessica Johansson of Orebro University in Sweden […]
“Take the two Eyes of Horus, the black and the white. Take them to your forehead, (so) that they may illuminate your face.” *************************** Quotation from: The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts → To learn about the original British Archeologists who translated these Egyptian texts click on this icon. –: ************************************************************************* How do we know that R.O. Faulkner’s translation of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is correct? Click here […]
