...and it just sounded like....when someone plays the wrong note on a violin.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Torah Learning Resources
I love this website, especially Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein's lectures. http://www.torahanytime.com/
This is another great website with audio lectures of the Rabbis from Yeshiva University: http://www.yutorah.org/catalog/
I have subscriptions to the newsletters from Aish.com, OU's Shabbat Shalom Newsletters http://www.ou.org/, My Jewish Learning http://www.myjewishlearning.com, The Jewish Times http://www.mesora.org/. Also Dafnotes http://www.dafnotes.com/
This is another great website with audio lectures of the Rabbis from Yeshiva University: http://www.yutorah.org/catalog/
I have subscriptions to the newsletters from Aish.com, OU's Shabbat Shalom Newsletters http://www.ou.org/, My Jewish Learning http://www.myjewishlearning.com, The Jewish Times http://www.mesora.org/. Also Dafnotes http://www.dafnotes.com/
Sunday, July 17, 2011
A Post Dedicated to Lauren Spierer
I was reading on the news about Lauren Spierer, a 20 year old student from Indiana University, who is also a New Yorker, and who disappeared in early June. I've read updates on her story that she is still missing and her parents are desperately searching for her. This is one of the articles that I found online that talks about the lack of information in regards to what exactly happened the night Lauren disappeared?
http://www.lohud.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/106260388/Lauren-Spierer-search-nets-few-leads
So I wanted to say that my heart goes out to her parents. I checked on youtube for videos and heard her parents speak about her. And it's so moving and so sad, and it bothers me that those who may actually know what happened to her would not speak. How can they do that to her parents, to her dad, to her mom? I'm very upset about the fact that her own friends would rather get lawyers than talk to Lauren's parents. How can they leave her parents to be in such agony and for so long? It's so inhumane.
I hope Lauren will be found soon and she will be reunited with her family.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/106260388/Lauren-Spierer-search-nets-few-leads
So I wanted to say that my heart goes out to her parents. I checked on youtube for videos and heard her parents speak about her. And it's so moving and so sad, and it bothers me that those who may actually know what happened to her would not speak. How can they do that to her parents, to her dad, to her mom? I'm very upset about the fact that her own friends would rather get lawyers than talk to Lauren's parents. How can they leave her parents to be in such agony and for so long? It's so inhumane.
I hope Lauren will be found soon and she will be reunited with her family.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Some Books I've been reading
Elie Wiesel 1-10
1. Night
2. Dawn
3. Day
4. Legends of Our Time
5. Messengers of G-d
6. The Testament
7. The Fifth Son
8. Passover Haggadah
9. All Rivers Run to The Sea
10. The Accident
11. Jewish Literacy by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
12. The Book of Jewish Values by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
13. Modern Hebrew for Beginners by Esther Raizen
14. Modern Hebrew For Intermediate Students by Esther Raizen (reading now)
15. Colloquial Hebrew: The Complete Course for Beginners (reference)
16. THIS IS MY GOD Herman Wouk
17. TO PRAY AS A JEW –A guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin
18. Duties of the Heart- Bahya ibn Paquda
19. Tanach/Chumash/Siddur/Tehillim/ Talmud(Excerpts)
20. JEWISH CATALOG Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, Sharon Strassfeld
21. JEWISH LITERACY by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
22. WANDERINGS-CHAIM POTOK’S HISTORY OF THE JEWS
23. BEN-YEHUDA’S ENGLISH-HEBREW, HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (Reference)
24. THE CHOSEN by Chaim Potok
25. THE PROMISE by Chaim Potok
26. HALAKHIC MAN (excerpts, learned about it in school)
27. SCHINDLER’S LIST by Thomas Keneally (Movie)
28. Life is a Test by Rebetzin Esther Jungreis
29. It's Not As Tough As You Think by Rabbi Twerski
30. On Spirituality by Rabbi Twerski
31. Nishmat Avraham Vol.1: Orach Chaim Medical Halachah for doctors, nurses, health-care personnel and patients By Abraham S. Abraham, M.D.
32. A Treasury of Jewish Folklore
33. A Treasury of Yiddish Folklore
34. The Chofetz Chaim: A lesson a day (Excerpts)
35. Arscroll’s Pirkei Avot
36. A Short History of the Jewish People By Scheindlin
37. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
38. Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
39. The Jew in the Medieval World by Marcus (Excerpts)
40. The Jew in the Modern World (Excerpts)
41. Israel/Palestine by Alan Dowry
42. If this is a Man by Primo Levi
43. The Truce by Primo Levi
44. Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman
45. Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family by Lis Harris
46. A Century of Ambivalence The Jews of Russia and Soviet Union by Zvi Gitelman (Excerpts)
47. Shulchan Aruch: Code of Jewish Law (Excerpts)
48. Mishneh Torah-Rambam
49. Moreh Nevuchim-Rambam
50. Siddur Hashalem by Phillip Birnbaum
51. Jewish as a Second Language by Molly Katz
52. How Do I Decide?: A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and What's Wrong [Paperback] Roland. B. Gittelsohn
53. When a Jew Seeks Wisdom: The Sayings of the Fathers (Jewish Values Series) Seymour Rossel,Chaim Stern,Hyman Chanover
54. Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition [Hardcover] David L. Freeman (Editor), Judith Z. Abrams (Editor)
55. Berlitz Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary (Berlitz Phrase Books)
56. Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friendlander (2 volumes-Excerpts) and The Years of Extermination
57. MAUS A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman
58. The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
59. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand by Yigael Yadin (Excerpts)
60. Zohar (Excerpts)
61. Historical Atlas of the Jewish People Author:Barnavi (Excerpts)
62. Heritage: Source Reader by Hallo (Excerpts)
63. Sacred Therapy by Estelle Frankel
64. Divine Footsteps - Chesed and the Jewish Soul Author: Daniel Z. Feldman
65. Way of G-d: Derech Hashem Chaim Luzzatto
66. Mishneh Berurah (excerpts)
67. My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
68. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (Excerpts)
69. Tanya (Excerpts)
70. Shabbat Zemiros
71. Spanish Siddur
72. The Lost Princess & Other Kabblistic Tales Of Rebbe Nachman Of Breslov
73. Tashlikh-Artscroll
74. If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say it in Yiddish-L. B. Epstein
75. Guide to Blessings by OU/NCSY Hoffner, Naftali
76. Till Eternity by Jacob S. Kassin
77. The Lonely Man of Faith by R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik
78. The Book of Our Heritage by R' Eliyahu Kitov (Excerpts)
79. Sir Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Haggadah and Essays (Excerpts)
80. Sir Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' A Letter in the Scroll
81. To be a Jew by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin (Excerpts)
82. R' David Hartman's Maimoindes: Torah and Philosophic Quest
83. With Perfect Faith-The Foundations of Jewish Belief by R' J. David Bleich (Excerpts)
84. "The Jewish Body" by Melvin Konner *excerpts hope to finish it soon
85. Peninim on the Torah-2006 Edition(?) (Excerpts)
*and others not included here.
**where it says Excerpts it means either I plan to read more from that book but I have not gotten to finish yet the book if it's a book I chose and/or that it was a class requirement and they only required to focus on certain portions of the book or I'm currently reading and so as I do that, I will come back and remove the note "Excerpts"
**along with other resources/online shiurim/books/etc. b/c I haven't been counting everything either....
1. Night
2. Dawn
3. Day
4. Legends of Our Time
5. Messengers of G-d
6. The Testament
7. The Fifth Son
8. Passover Haggadah
9. All Rivers Run to The Sea
10. The Accident
11. Jewish Literacy by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
12. The Book of Jewish Values by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
13. Modern Hebrew for Beginners by Esther Raizen
14. Modern Hebrew For Intermediate Students by Esther Raizen (reading now)
15. Colloquial Hebrew: The Complete Course for Beginners (reference)
16. THIS IS MY GOD Herman Wouk
17. TO PRAY AS A JEW –A guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin
18. Duties of the Heart- Bahya ibn Paquda
19. Tanach/Chumash/Siddur/Tehillim/ Talmud(Excerpts)
20. JEWISH CATALOG Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, Sharon Strassfeld
21. JEWISH LITERACY by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
22. WANDERINGS-CHAIM POTOK’S HISTORY OF THE JEWS
23. BEN-YEHUDA’S ENGLISH-HEBREW, HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (Reference)
24. THE CHOSEN by Chaim Potok
25. THE PROMISE by Chaim Potok
26. HALAKHIC MAN (excerpts, learned about it in school)
27. SCHINDLER’S LIST by Thomas Keneally (Movie)
28. Life is a Test by Rebetzin Esther Jungreis
29. It's Not As Tough As You Think by Rabbi Twerski
30. On Spirituality by Rabbi Twerski
31. Nishmat Avraham Vol.1: Orach Chaim Medical Halachah for doctors, nurses, health-care personnel and patients By Abraham S. Abraham, M.D.
32. A Treasury of Jewish Folklore
33. A Treasury of Yiddish Folklore
34. The Chofetz Chaim: A lesson a day (Excerpts)
35. Arscroll’s Pirkei Avot
36. A Short History of the Jewish People By Scheindlin
37. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
38. Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
39. The Jew in the Medieval World by Marcus (Excerpts)
40. The Jew in the Modern World (Excerpts)
41. Israel/Palestine by Alan Dowry
42. If this is a Man by Primo Levi
43. The Truce by Primo Levi
44. Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman
45. Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family by Lis Harris
46. A Century of Ambivalence The Jews of Russia and Soviet Union by Zvi Gitelman (Excerpts)
47. Shulchan Aruch: Code of Jewish Law (Excerpts)
48. Mishneh Torah-Rambam
49. Moreh Nevuchim-Rambam
50. Siddur Hashalem by Phillip Birnbaum
51. Jewish as a Second Language by Molly Katz
52. How Do I Decide?: A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and What's Wrong [Paperback] Roland. B. Gittelsohn
53. When a Jew Seeks Wisdom: The Sayings of the Fathers (Jewish Values Series) Seymour Rossel,Chaim Stern,Hyman Chanover
54. Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition [Hardcover] David L. Freeman (Editor), Judith Z. Abrams (Editor)
55. Berlitz Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary (Berlitz Phrase Books)
56. Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friendlander (2 volumes-Excerpts) and The Years of Extermination
57. MAUS A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman
58. The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
59. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand by Yigael Yadin (Excerpts)
60. Zohar (Excerpts)
61. Historical Atlas of the Jewish People Author:Barnavi (Excerpts)
62. Heritage: Source Reader by Hallo (Excerpts)
63. Sacred Therapy by Estelle Frankel
64. Divine Footsteps - Chesed and the Jewish Soul Author: Daniel Z. Feldman
65. Way of G-d: Derech Hashem Chaim Luzzatto
66. Mishneh Berurah (excerpts)
67. My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
68. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (Excerpts)
69. Tanya (Excerpts)
70. Shabbat Zemiros
71. Spanish Siddur
72. The Lost Princess & Other Kabblistic Tales Of Rebbe Nachman Of Breslov
73. Tashlikh-Artscroll
74. If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say it in Yiddish-L. B. Epstein
75. Guide to Blessings by OU/NCSY Hoffner, Naftali
76. Till Eternity by Jacob S. Kassin
77. The Lonely Man of Faith by R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik
78. The Book of Our Heritage by R' Eliyahu Kitov (Excerpts)
79. Sir Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Haggadah and Essays (Excerpts)
80. Sir Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' A Letter in the Scroll
81. To be a Jew by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin (Excerpts)
82. R' David Hartman's Maimoindes: Torah and Philosophic Quest
83. With Perfect Faith-The Foundations of Jewish Belief by R' J. David Bleich (Excerpts)
84. "The Jewish Body" by Melvin Konner *excerpts hope to finish it soon
85. Peninim on the Torah-2006 Edition(?) (Excerpts)
*and others not included here.
**where it says Excerpts it means either I plan to read more from that book but I have not gotten to finish yet the book if it's a book I chose and/or that it was a class requirement and they only required to focus on certain portions of the book or I'm currently reading and so as I do that, I will come back and remove the note "Excerpts"
**along with other resources/online shiurim/books/etc. b/c I haven't been counting everything either....
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