Showing posts with label sinai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sinai. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

eruvin 4

divine weights and measures.
that hook into the text and find their reflection.

(discussion if the various measurement units are derived from the written torah or are part of the oral tradition, given to Moses at Sinai "Moshe M'Sinai")

Friday, 15 February 2013

shabbat 135

we are all enslaved in one form or another.

if the mother is a slave then the baby is circumcised at 1 day
but if the mother is an eved hashem - slave to God, and accepted Sinai, then the baby is circumcised at 8 days.

(for english translation of this talmud page, see here)

Monday, 31 December 2012

shabbat 89

only the ones who know the fearful place at the top of the mountain are able to defend the people against forces of destruction.

(on this page Moses is challenged by the angels and defends the giving of Torah to humans, Moses also defends the people against Satan. Later in the page only Isaac out of the three patriarchs defends the people against God, using the merit of his role in the Akedah. for english translation of this talmud page, see here)

Sunday, 30 December 2012

shabbat 88

the precarious happenings at Horeb (mt. Sinai)

on the mountain-top the fiery angels threatened and tried to prevent the giving of the torah to humans.

but at the base of the mountain 600,000 angels crowned all the humans who accepted the torah the way angels do.

for english translation of this page of talmud, see here

Friday, 28 December 2012

shabbat 86

calculating 3 days of impurity of sperm leaving leaving a woman's body

is linked to the preparations at the base of the mountain, before receiving the torah.

for english translation of this talmud page, see here