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Sefaria is an online open source, [1] free content, digital library of Jewish texts. It was founded in 2011 by former Google project manager Brett Lockspeiser and journalist-author Joshua Foer . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Promoted as a "living library of Jewish texts", Sefaria relies partially upon volunteers to add texts and translations.
Daf Yomi (Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page. Under this regimen, the ...
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A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is a collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which, especially in Israel, are often called "The Traditional Jewish Bookshelf" (ארון הספרים היהודי); the texts are in their original languages (Hebrew or Aramaic).
Khaveyrim (study partners) sit opposite each other or side by side in the beth midrash of Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret.. Chavrusa, also spelled chavruta or ḥavruta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חַבְרוּתָא, romanized: ḥāḇruṯā, lit. "fellowship"; pl.: חַבְרָוָותָא, ḥāḇrāwāṯā), is a traditional rabbinic approach to Talmudic study in which a small group of ...
The dialects organize into Mishnaic Hebrew (also called Tannaitic Hebrew, Early Rabbinic Hebrew, or Mishnaic Hebrew I), which was a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew (also called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew II), which was a literary language. The earlier section of the Talmud is the Mishnah that was published around 200 CE ...
Hebrew school is usually taught in dedicated classrooms at a synagogue, under the instruction of a Hebrew teacher (who may or may not be fluent in Hebrew), and often receives support from the cantor for learning the ancient chanting of a student's Torah portion, and from the rabbi during their ceremony since they must read from a Torah scroll ...
In his youth, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda studied in a Yeshiva where he was introduced to the Hebrew language. [4] He was told by his Lithuanian friends that the Jews are not a nation and cannot be a nation because they don't speak in one distinct language, [5] That claim inspired his unique perspective that two things will fully unite the Jews into one nation: The land of Israel and the Hebrew ...