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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.
Louis (Eliezer) Finkelstein was born into a rabbinic family in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895. He moved with his parents to Brooklyn, New York as a youngster and graduated from the City College of New York in 1915.
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).
Yitzhak Frank (Hebrew: יצחק פרנק) is an Israeli rabbi and a teacher of Talmud in Israel. He has made 11 publications between 1991 and 2001. His works are used as teaching material for Talmud students and rabbis in the Jewish schools in Israel. [1] His book The practical Talmud dictionary has won the Prize of the Israeli Minister of ...
The congregation was founded in 1901 as Congregation "Beth Hamedrash Hachodosh Talmud Torah" (New House of Study for the Study of the Torah). [1] Its first religious leader, Rabbi Meyer Freeman, [2] published a book entitled "The Talmud" to raise money for a synagogue building. [3]
Temple Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 8500 Hillcrest Road, in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. Chartered as the Jewish Congregation Emanu-El in 1875, it was the first Reform congregation in North Texas, and is the largest synagogue in the South. The congregation is led by Rabbi David E. Stern.
Yeshivat Har Etzion advocates a combination of Torah study and a love of the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. [11] It is known for a more moderate and open approach to the role of religion in the modern world; the Yeshiva's slogan is "Immersed in Torah – Engaged with the World."
The Rishonim, the leading rabbis of the Middle Ages after the Geonim, have left many written Halakhic works, including the Piskei HaRosh of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel [30] and the Sefer HaHalakhot of Rabbi Yitzchak Alfasi, [31] both of which are often published in the back of the Talmud; and the Arba'ah Turim, also known as the Tur, of Rabbi ...