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2 49 17_Fw: The Talmudist16_devor@huji.ac.il20_devor@pob.huji.ac.il31_Sun, 24 Sep 2000 07:10:03 +0300569_iso-8859-1 After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist from Odessa<br>was granted permission to visit Moscow. He boarded the train and found<br>an empty seat. At the next stop a young man got on and sat next to him.<br>The scholar looked at the young man and thought: This fellow doesn't<br>look like a peasant, and if he isn't a peasant he probably comes from this<br>district. If he comes from this district, then he must be Jewish because<br>this<br>is, after all, a Jewish district. On the other hand, if he is a Jew, where<br>could<br>he be [...]42_24Sep200007:10:03+0300devor@pob.huji.ac.il
52 1200 89_Worlds and Souls: the Spiritual Dialectic of Rosh Hashana and Pesah by Rabbi Nathan Glick16_devor@huji.ac.il20_devor@pob.huji.ac.il31_Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:51:41 +0300617_iso-8859-1 Worlds and Souls: the Spiritual Dialectic of Rosh Hashana and Pesah<br><br>Nathan Glick<br><br>1. Spirit and Reality<br><br>The Talmud in Tractate Rosh Hashana (10 b - 11 a) recounts a disagreement between the sages: Rabbi Eliezer states that the world was created in the month of Tishrei (in the autumn) when we celebrate Rosh Hashana. Rabbi Yehoshua holds that world was created in Nissan (in the spring time) when we celebrate our liberation from bondage in Egypt. Initially it would appear that the first opinion is most understandable. With the end of summer comes the end of the growing season, [...]42_29Sep200015:51:41+0300devor@pob.huji.ac.il
1253 400 18_Shannah Tovah 576116_devor@huji.ac.il20_devor@pob.huji.ac.il31_Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:30:51 +0300623_iso-8859-1 B'S"D<br>29 Elul, 5760<br><br>Dear Mochin Friends,<br><br>Tonight begins the Jewish New Year -- 5761 -- which celebrates the<br>creation of man. The culmination of the year -- 5999 (238 years<br>hence) -- the end of the sixth millennium, will signal our total<br>victory in the conquest of our ignorance of matter and thus the end<br>of our subjugation to the physical. This will also be the end of all<br>creative work. With Rosh Hashana 6000 will begin the seventh millennium<br>-- a thousand year Sabbath of messianically guided spiritual evolution --<br>leading to the conscious integration of all that [...]42_29Sep200016:30:51+0300devor@pob.huji.ac.il
1654 347 13_Shannah Tovah16_devor@huji.ac.il20_devor@pob.huji.ac.il31_Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:37:46 +030072_windows-1256 HAPPY ROSH HASHANA<br><br>From: The PROJECT MIND FOUNDATION42_29Sep200016:37:46+0300devor@pob.huji.ac.il