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	<title>Original Torah:  Ancient Words in a Modern Light</title>
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	<description>I'm a Jew not in search of an adjective -R' A. J. Heschel</description>
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		<title>Vote for me (and BZ)!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vote for me (and BZ)!
The Jewish Blog Awards are in Full Swing:
Vote for my best Torah post (if you like it)
I voted for the second tables, third covenant one (Original Torah). I like it a bit better.
Vote for BZ&#8217;s Best Series:
Best Series: Jewish Pluralism Mah Rabu
Best Jewish Religious Blog (goes to finals, starts may 9) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2007/04/30/vote-for-me-and-bz/</link>
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		<title>Pesah Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you think of one of the more unusual events in the Exodus story that is important, but you can explain that the event never happened?
Exodus 11:7
ד וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה כַּֽחֲצֹ֣ת הַלַּ֔יְלָה אֲנִ֥י יוֹצֵ֖א בְּת֥וֹךְ מִצְרָֽיִם׃  ה וּמֵ֣ת כָּל־בְּכוֹר֮ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ מִבְּכ֤וֹר פַּרְעֹה֙ הַיֹּשֵׁ֣ב עַל־כִּסְא֔וֹ עַ֚ד בְּכ֣וֹר הַשִּׁפְחָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַחַ֣ר הָֽרֵחָ֑יִם וְכֹ֖ל [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2007/04/02/dogs-whet-tongues/</link>
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		<title>Eo&#8217;s 15 Minutes</title>
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My cat&#8217;s 15 minutes of fame!
Israel21c:
Among the subjects explored in the monologues were: coming of age in Israel; Israel as a young woman&#8217;s first love; falling in love with Israeli culture, Israeli food and even Israeli cats; a New Yorker&#8217;s experience of serving in the Israeli army; being in dialogue with Israel; separating from Israel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/09/19/eos-15-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Va-Ethannan 5766: Deconfounding the Torah</title>
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Va-ethannan Deuteronomy 3:23 &#8211; 7:11
This week&#8217;s parashah contains the verse said when the Torah is taken out of the Ark: &#8220;This is the Torah which Moses placed before Bnei Yisrael&#8221; (4:44) [to which we append "at the word of YHWH by the hand of Moses"] Its usage implies that the verse is talking about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/08/03/va-ethannan-5766-deconfounding-the-torah/</link>
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		<title>Devarim 5766:  Ancient Texts In An Ancient Text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Deuteronomy 1:1 &#8211; 3:22
A number of years ago I was preparing to read Torah. I noticed a number of different section in this parashah had a different cadence and theme than the rest. At the time, I was trying to learn Yemini cantillation. So, I chanted Dt. 2:10-13, 20-23 in a different trope. Nobody noticed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/07/28/devarim-5766-ancient-texts-in-an-ancient-text/</link>
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		<title>Prayer for Peace</title>
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I got engaged last Friday and a friend said that a bride and groom have extra merit when saying blessings, so I wrote this, shatuf befi.



Yehi retzono shel manhig haolam lehafkiah einei hasonim vetokfim, leharbot shalvah veshaanan beolam velehafshir hafsharot tovot al kol mahklokot bein shehem lesheim shamayim, o lo lesheim shamayam.  Ve she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/07/27/prayer-for-peace/</link>
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		<title>Mattot Mase&#8217;ei 5766:  Vengeance and Mixed Religion Relationships</title>
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Mattot 30:2 &#8211; 32:42 Mase&#8217;ei 33:1 &#8211; 36:13 5766
Chapter 31 begins with God commanding Moses&#8217;s last act, to correct (NQM M) what the Midianites did, and to separate out fighters in order to reprove (NQM B) Midian for their sin. These two uses of NQM in parallel teach the intent of the bloodshed that follows, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/07/18/mattot-maseei-5766-vengeance-and-mixed-religion-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Pinhas 5766: Inheritance or Transmission of Property</title>
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Pinhas:  Numbers 25:10 &#8211; 30:1
There are two transmissions in parashat pinhas, the transmission of authority to Joshua before Moses is &#8220;gathered unto his people&#8221;(27:13), and the apportioning of the land of Canaan to the males living at that time.
There are two traditions regarding how the torah was given.  Reish Lakish says at Sinai [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/07/14/pinhas-5766-inheritance-or-transmission-of-property/</link>
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		<title>Aharei Mot-Kedoshim 5766:  Blood, Meat, and Maintaining Traditions</title>
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Aharei Mot Leviticus 16:1 &#8211; 18:30, Kedoshim 19:1 &#8211; 20:27
The Torah teaches what&#8217;s known as kashrut/The Dietary Laws in three texts:

The Prohibition of Seething a Kid in its mother&#8217;s milk (Exodus 23:19, 34:26, Deut 14:21)
The Types of animals permitted or forbidden to eat (Lev 11:1-47, Deut 14:3-21).
The prohibition of eating blood (Deut 12:13-25, Lev 17:10-14, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/06/30/aharei-mot-kedoshim-5766-blood-meat-and-maintaining-traditions/</link>
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		<title>Reinterpreting Leviticus 18:6, 20:13</title>
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This pristine example of midrash halakha essentially argues with great erudition that the verses we normally understand to  prohibit man on man sex actually prohibit both men and women from having incestuous, adulterous, or bestial relationships.  It&#8217;s a brilliant exposition, yet it leaves me with two different problems.

One, is that this is probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/05/03/reinterpreting-leviticus-186-2013/</link>
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		<title>Darfur Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General Anna makes a good point at the Darfur rally that in general, it&#8217;s not safe to make generalizations.  It always drives me nuts when people describe a group I belong to with a subgroup.  
For example, when I went to the Israel rally in DC a couple of years ago, a speaker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/05/03/darfur-rally/</link>
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		<title>Love, Compassion, And the Divine</title>
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New Scientist Features &#8211; Love special: Reflections of the divine:
How do religious people enhance their capacity for feeling compassion?
They would engage in a deepening of their relationship with God, because all that is good in us is a reflection of the divine. As we grow in intimacy with God and so become more God-like ourselves, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/04/29/love-compassion-and-the-divine/</link>
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		<title>Tazria-Metsora 5766:  Judging The Impurity Down There</title>
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Tazria Leviticus 12:1 &#8211; 13:59 Metsora Leviticus 14:1 &#8211; 15:33
(note, some text may appear when you mouseover an English Torah verse or verse numbers).

15:31 You shall put the Israelites on guard against their uncleanness, lest they die through their uncleanness by defiling My Tabernacle which is among them.
32 Such is the ritual concerning him who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/04/26/tazria-metsora-5766-judging-the-impurity-down-there/</link>
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		<title>Hahzakat Hametz</title>
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הריני מחזיק/ה מחדש החמץ ההפקר שהפקרתי ובערתי ברשותי. כל חמץ ושאור שסלקתי יהא לי להשתמש בה ולהנות בה כל ימות השנה
Hareni mahzik/a mehadash hehametz hahefker shehifkarti vebiarti bereshuti.  Kol Hametz ve seor she silakti yehe li lishtamesh bah velehenot bah kol yemot hashana.
&#8220;I hereby take possession anew of the ownersless hametz that I abandoned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://torah.originaljewish.com/2006/04/19/hahzakat-hametz/</link>
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