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Mitzvah tantz (lit. "mitzvah-dance" in Yiddish) is the Hasidic custom of the men dancing before the bride on the wedding night, after the wedding feast. Commonly, the bride, who usually stands perfectly still at one end of the room, will hold one end of a long sash or a gartel while the one dancing before her holds the other end. [1]
In late 1903, members of the Chevra Talmud Torah (Talmud Torah Society) joined Kesher Israel. [12] From 1910 to 1916 [13] a Hasidic congregation, Machzikei Hadas, held its services in the basement of the Kesher Israel building. [14] Kesher Israel opened a Talmud Torah in 1908 which served all Jewish residents in the city. [5]
Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, abbreviated as Adereth El, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 133 East 29th Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1857, it claims to be the oldest synagogue in its original location with continuous services at the same location.
Congregation Or Zarua is a Conservative synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.Founded in 1989 by under two dozen congregants and Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, it completed construction of its current building in 2002.
The Queens Jewish Center, also known as Queens Jewish Center and Talmud Torah or QJC, is an Orthodox synagogue in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community. [2] The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel.
The Jerusalem Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, romanized: Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short) or Palestinian Talmud, [1] [2] also known as the Talmud of the Land of Israel, [3] [4] is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.
The Soncino Talmud was published from 1935–1952, [10] under the general editorship of Rabbi Isidore Epstein. [11] The translation is distributed both on its own (18 volumes) and in a parallel text edition (35 volumes), in which each English page faces the Aramaic /Hebrew page; it was available also on CD-ROM , as below.
The Talmud itself gives no information concerning the origin of the middot, although the Geonim regarded them as Sinaitic (הלכה למשה מסיני, "Law given to Moses at Mount Sinai"; comp. Rabbi Samson of Chinon in his Sefer HaKeritot).