BlogHide Resteemstora (40)in ssm • 7 years agoAustralian Marriage Law Postal Survey on Same-Sex MarriageThis draft (there may be numerous typographical errors) is not an instruction as to how to vote in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, but a critique of the views and sources offered in…tora (40)in politics • 7 years agoQoraḥ (Korach) and politiciansThis I wrote a while back, it is long, the footnotes even longer (to be honest this could have been broken up into four parts). ==== Why is Qoraḥ (read small-time politicians) so despised? The…tora (40)in life • 7 years agoForever Young, I want to be...?This recent story, from 8 August 2017, about a chip "that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient’s own body" (see more here) made me think of another story blogged…tora (40)in history • 7 years agoThe Damascus AffairWhile not strictly speaking, a discussion of Tôrā, these are my "cliff notes" collated from quite a while back regarding various sources discussing the tragedy of the Damascus Affair; relevant today…tora (40)in language • 7 years agoAramaic-Hebrew-ArabicQuick post today. Language and its use interests me deeply, language snobbery, as well as why people are so obsessive about one language being superior to another, when clearly each language has…tora (40)in judaism • 7 years agoBlessing for the Bar Mitzvah BoyThis is another post that was also written a while back, enjoy:) When a bar-miṣwah boy gets his aliyah, in many synagogues his father is instructed to say: baroukh shepeṭarannee me`onsho shel zeh…tora (40)in judaism • 7 years agoThe three weeksI put this post together in 2015, but it is relevant for the three weeks: . Today we commenced a small period of mourning, spanning the 8th, 9th and 10th of Tebheth. On the 8th (in the year of…tora (40)in introduction • 7 years agoTorah Codes are Amazing! They possibly predict everything and anything!In Pirqê Abhôth (Pirkei Avos ('A) | Pirke Avot (MH)) [1] (yes it's a footnote you may want to check out), we are given a useful piece of life advice by a certain ben Bagh-Bagh [2]: "turn it over…
