Please click here to read a printable version. Please click here to listen to an audio recording of the Insights section. Mens Rea Actus Non Facit Reum, Nisi Mens Sit Rea – ‘An act does not make a person guilty, unless the mind is guilty’. (Legal Maxim) A gift consists not…
Touring the Talmud Makot 13-19: (Perashat Veyetse) Damage Control
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To view a printer friendly version click here. Touring the Talmud Makot 13-19: (Perashat Veyetse) Damage Control ‘The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.’ — Lord Byron ‘It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was…
Touring the Talmud: Makot 06-112 (Shabbat Toledot) Who’s to Blame?
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For a printer friendly version click here. To listen to the audio click here. Touring the Talmud: Makot 06-112 (Shabbat Toledot) Who’s to Blame? ‘The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance’. — John Philpot Curran When the possibility arises that we might be…
Touring the Talmud: Sanhedrin 111-113 Makkot 02-05 (Shabbat Haye Sarah) – Birds of a Feather
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Please click here to read a printable version. Please click here to listen to an audio recording of the Insights section. Touring the Talmud: Sanhedrin 111-113 – Makkot 02-05 (Shabbat Haye Sarah) Birds of a Feather “The larger the group…the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender…