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Rabbi Susan Leider offers us a challenge:
In the fast-moving game of #Jewishgeography, you make connections with who you don’t know, by connecting through who you do know.
But does the game really serve us well?
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We want to make a joke about Twitter falling apart but people are always writing those articles about Conservative Judaism.
(We're not going anywhere, we promise.)
Why is Elisha so concerned with repaying the woman with a child and why is the woman so unconcerned with having one?"
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We learn from Bex Stern Rosenblatt of @FuchsbergC4CJ (CY) on the Haftarah of Parashat #Vayera:
"We read the story of Elisha passing by the house of a big deal woman and her husband in Shunem...
Using Vered Hollander-Goldfarb's study guide from @FuchsbergC4CJ (Conservative Yeshiva) on Parashat #Vayera, we can dig deeper into the text.
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All the more so drinking alcohol (that is called Beer) is definitely prohibited.
Tea and coffee are permitted to drink before prayer in order that one will be able to intent their mind."
Read the Shulkhan Arukh and Mishneh Berura texts here:
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The @SefariaProject text is in Hebrew only, so we'll translate here:
The Mishneh Berurah says commenting on the permission to drink water:
"Water is permitted - ...water is permitted specifically without sugar, but with sugar, it is prohibited.
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In honor of #NationalCappuccinoDay, did you know that according to the Mishneh Berurah, even though one is not permitted to eat or drink anything before prayer except for water, there is a leniency for tea and COFFEE.
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...by a realistic expectation of humanity’s moral capabilities.
And so God “checks” the divine tendency for strict justice by consulting with a human being."
Read the whole thing:
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We learn from Ilana Kurshan of @FuchsbergC4CJ (The CY) on Parashat Vayera:
"Perhaps God recognizes that to destroy Sodom outright would be to ignore the lesson of the flood, namely that justice must be tempered...
In Parashat Vayera, Abraham is visited by three angels. They wanted to tell Abraham that he should visit Exploring Judaism.
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We aspire to speak the true desires of our hearts and to listen deeply to one another in the hope that our intimate relationships—far from requiring divine intercession—might be blessed, instead, with the indwelling of the divine presence.
He teaches that if a couple merits, then the divine presence dwells between them; if not, a fire consumes them (Sotah 17a).
The relationship between Abraham and Sarah nearly leads to conflagration, but thankfully, God comes between them.
...Sarah becomes pregnant at last.
Rabbi Akiva famously notes that the letters Yud and Hey, which can be joined to form God’s name, are the only difference between the Hebrew words for man (ish) and wife (isha); the letters in common spell esh, meaning fire.
It is at this point that God changes both Abraham and Sarah’s names from Abram and Sarai, as they were previously known.
Each member of the couple gets an extra Hey—a letter from God’s name—added to their names, and the next time Abraham receives a divine visitation...
The next time God reiterates the promise to Abraham, the patriarch responds, “O that Ishmael might live by your favor” (Genesis 17:18) but God insists, “But Sarah your wife shall bear you a son” (Genesis 17:9).
Even God needs to tell Abraham that Hagar is irrelevant.