Great 4 part seminar happening on Chabad: https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/course...-Truth.htm

It's free and features an excellent speaker. You'll need an account to sign up. It takes just a minute. We can discuss it within this thread if anyone decides to go all in. . . .

I listened to ' Love ' last evening. It was 26 minutes. A really great speech !



Meet the Instructor

Mrs. Menucha Schochet is a Chabad emissary, educator and motivational speaker. She travels extensively inspiring students and audiences with her words and gift of music.

Has anyone ever tried powdered peanut butter? I see it's kosher and it has much less fat calories than the regular stuff. But I'm wondering how it tastes?

At the risk of possibly duplicating other threads, I'd like a better sense of who's here. So, a couple of questions ...

• Are you Jewish? If so, to which Jewish 'movement' (i.e. Orthodox, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Traditional, Conservative, Reform, Liberal/Progressive, Reconstructionist, etc.) do you identify?
  
• What is your preferred Torah translation/commentary?
  

Another great video by Rabbi Sacks on Jewish Ethics!

Silicon Valley tech billionaire Chris Kelsey claims that the holocaust never occurred:

I became a member of this site to learn more about Judaism, Torah, jewish culture and people. 

I was a member of the previous website, but changed my name, because reasons. 
I chose this  name, because in fact I live in the lands of ancient Lydia, and because I visited almost every single historical place in this land.

Also, this site, with another online forum, were two major reasons for me once, to get rid of my anti semitism. Should thank creators here.

The four types of temperament:

1. Those who are easily angered and easily appeased.

2. Those whom it is hard to anger but hard to appease.

3. Those whom it is hard to anger and easy to appease. *

4. Those whom it is easy to anger and hard to appease.

Ethics of the Fathers 5:14 . .Well. .Sorta. . This is something that needs to really be synced, and let sink into us.
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Reading through one of my favorite authors ( Rabbi Joseph Telushkin ) last evening. Since those temperaments are easy for us to assess other people. It may be a little more tricky being honest with ourselves. We are not perfect people. We won't always fit into one category every time. Some days we just get up on the wrong side of the bed. Maybe we are dealing with an individual that we have had some history, and it clouds our normal reaction. There are any number of ways in a self examination that could keep us from being fair with ourselves.

Whats seems important is that we have an awareness when it comes to our reactions. We can give ourselves a multiple choice option.

That 4th one on the list is the worst, and has even been described as even wicked. Sadly that may be true of our reaction at some point in our lives when dealing with others. But with better understanding of how this is categorized, we can step up today, and decide for ourselves all the tomorrows.

This type of self inventory requires us to be fearless and thorough. If we really don't like what we see. We can, through self examination begin to change. Just wondering what are some of the steps we could suggest taking to improve ourselves, and our outlook about other people ?

... Shutters Print Edition After 121 Years
 

Quote:It has been a long, long time since New York City's newsstands have been bereft of copies of The Forward. Founded as a Yiddish-language daily in 1897, the newspaper once known as The Jewish Daily Forward endured a host of major changes over its long life span — but through them all, the small publication reliably went to press with news that its predominantly American Jewish audience often couldn't find elsewhere.  But that will change come springtime.

There is an intriguing article in TheTorah.com titled: YHWH: The Original Arabic Meaning of the Name which notes, in part ...

Quote:If YHWH’s origins are in the Nomad-land of Yehwa among the Midianites, then the meaning of the name should be from the Arabic language family rather than the Hebrew language family. This further calls into question the etymology in Exodus 3 of the Tetragrammaton from ה.ו.י, “to be,” since, unlike Hebrew and Aramaic, Proto-Arabic does not have the root ה.ו.י for the word “to be.”

In 1956, Shelomo Dov Goitein (1900-1985), a scholar of both Jewish and Arabic studies, suggested that the name derives from the Arabic root h.w.y (هوى), and the word hawaya(هوايا), which means “love, affection, passion, desire.” He connected this suggestion with the passage in Exodus 34, in a set of laws known by scholars as the Ritual Decalogue. ...

What a pleasant discovery!

My name is Jay. I am a 73 year old Reform Jew who has lived for most of those years in the Chicago area. Those familiar with RF may know me as Jayhawker Soule. 

I am curious about Israelite history and deeply interested in Torah.

L'shalom ...