Memo from R. Wieder About Topics to be Covered in Shiur (2005)

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June 26, 2005

Memo from R. Wieder About Topics to be Covered in Shiur (2005)

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Memo on Meeting with Roshei Yeshiva (2004)

Attending: Blau, Rosensweig, Neuberger, Sacks, Wieder, Charlop. By 6/6, Roshei Yeshiva will mention 2C (anytime). By June 3rd - all Roshei Yeshiva will meet (I will be there at least for the begining).

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Memorandum about the Agudath Israel Siyum Hashas (1990)

Several months ago, well before the Siyyum Ha-Shas celebrating the conclusion of the Daf Yomi, I asked Rabbi Charlop to make private and discrete inquiries from Agudath Israel whether Yeshiva University would be invited to join in the commemoration. He told me that the answer was negative. I then asked him for more details, and he referred me to Rabbi Parness, who made the inquiries. I today called Parness and got the following information: Some time before Passover, he called up Rabbi Moshe Sherer of Agudath Israel, who said that he did not want to give a rash decision, but his first impression is that it will be difficult because it would incite his own kana'im. He would consult his lieutenants and get back to Parness.On Choi Hamoed Pesach, he told Parness that he consulted with them, and this time the answer was negative again, not because of the kana'im, but because of political reasons. Sherer had many obligations to many personalities who were much more identified with Agudath Israel, and he could not ignore them and give me a seat on the dais (apparently that was the nub of the whole negotiation: a seat on one of the front two rows in Madison Square Garden).Parness himself believes that the major reason was the kana'im. ו Parness tells me that the chief antagonist to Yeshiva and myself is Rabbi Svei of Philadelphia, and that unquestionably if he had I come and seen me he would have left abruptly.

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(Lecture 1) Introduction: the Oral Law – Mishnah and Gemara, compendium and code. Commentaries. Some basic talmudic concepts. Tractate Berakhot. (Lecture 2) The time of the reading of the Shema. The Mishnah. Talmudic explication of the text. The Shema and the prayer service. (Lecture 3) Aggadic digression – illustration of the interweaving of halakhah and aggadah in the talmudic colloquy on the Shema.AGGADIC DIGRESSION, II. Further illustrations.THE BLESSINGS SURROUNDING THE SHEMA. Their number and formulation. The morning Shema and the evening Shema. Ancient practice and Christian heretics.THE PROBLEM OF INTENTION. The requirement of kawenah in the recital of Shema and the performance of many sacred deeds.THE THREE SECTIONS OF THE SHEMA. Their positions and relative importance. Philosophic significance.THE NEED FOR ARTICULATION. The law’s requirement of pronunciation of the Shema. The Megillah Reading. The Omer.GROOMS AND BRIDEGROOMS. Special cases in the reading of the Shema. Practical vs. religious demands. Priority of observance.CONCLUSION OF CHAPTER IX. Mourning laws. Personal petitions of Amoraim. Aggadic gems.(RABBI LAMM'S COURSE IN TALMUD)This course will not be about Talmud, but in Talmud. It is hoped that a general knowledge of the spirit of the Talmud, its subject matter, and its basic principles will arise naturally from a study of selected texts taken in the sequence in which they appear in the first Tractate. The Aramaic text will be read, then the English translation, and the discussions will be based on the English. Thus, while it is preferable that the student have a reading knowledge of Hebrew, it will be possible for one with no Hebrew training to follow. It is advisable, however, that the student have some elementary knowledge of Jewish life and lore.

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