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Lost in Translation

Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin May 13, 2004

Imagine a foreigner hearing some American idioms for the first time, and the ensuing confusion.

Trial of King David Sabotages Lessons

Rabbi David Eliezrie May 6, 2004

I chose not to attend Tarbut\’s trial of King David. Billed as \”the people against King David,\” it promised to be a trial that was \”3,000 years in the making.\”

Our Torah portion employs an enigmatic turn of phrase that appears quite instructive in this regard. As God commands Moses to solicit the necessary stuff to build the Sanctuary, He demands that the Jews \”take for Me a portion.\”

Jewels of Our Lives

Reb Mimi Feigelson September 25, 2003

There are stories that one needs to hear many times in order to remember them, in order to file them in a manner that they can be retrieved when needed.

The Missing Student

Abraham Shafran July 24, 2003

Last month, as we began our daily daf yomi class (the daily study of a page of Talmud) we all looked over to the chair where Tibor Reis usually sat, to my immediate right. On the rare occasion when Tibor did not attend, we assumed he was just too tired. After all, traveling by bus each day to downtown Los Angeles takes a toll on an elderly person. But that day it was different. We all felt that, perhaps, Tibor was the fifth unidentified victim of the horrible June 6 airplane crash at a Fairfax apartment building. Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Times identified Tibor as the sole resident of the apartment building to die as a result of the crash.