This Friday, the 3rd of Elul, is the 75th yarzheit of Rav Kook, and lots of people are writing about it. One interesting column is by Yair Lapid on Ynet. One of Rav Kook’s famous acts was his trip that he took to the new moshavot (also here) with Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and a [...]
Tomer Persico has a post (Hebrew) discussing Elchanan Shilo’s article, “A Continuous Judaism Between Halakhah and Hiloni”, and some reactions to the original article. See here for a previous post on Shilo’s article.
Rabbi Jason Miller, a Conservative rabbi, has written a post titled Yes, Orthodox Judaism Changes Too. One of Rabbi Miller’s claims is that Orthodoxy, to varying degrees, also changes, it is just at a slower pace than the more liberal movements. The Judaism of 2010, in any of the denominations, looks different than the Judaism [...]
Elyashiv Reicher, a journalist and teacher who lives in Yeruḥam, has posted an interesting statistic on his blog, דרומי. Reicher notes that the majority of kibbutzim that have been established in the last two decades have been urban kibbutzim. There are currently over two thousand people living in numerous communal frameworks within urban areas in [...]
According to this post at the Inside Google Books blog, 129,864,880 is the estimated number of books in the world as of the other day.
Tomer Persico posts about the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia and Amnon Gross, a person who has devoted decades to publishing Abulafia’s writings from manuscripts. Gross’s blog can be found here, along with links to many of Abulafia’s writings in PDF.
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