Using the daf yomi calendar, I am reading the brilliant ArtScroll translation of the Babylonian Talmud. Here are my notes on the daily daf. Your comments are welcome, too!
I am a former chair and the current co-chair of the National Havurah Committee. I have taught courses at the National Havurah Summer Institute-- "Objects of Our Affection" (2009, with Eleni Litt), "Not in Heaven: When God is Silent, To Whom Do We Listen?" (2006), and "Modern Echoes in the Talmud" (2005). At the NHC Chesapeake Retreat (March 12-14, 2010), I will offer a workshop titled "The Library is on Fire!" based on the Mishnah in BT Shabbat, 115a, which states that on Shabbat all holy writings may be saved from a fire, whether we read them or not; we will study together the Gemara that explores what constitutes a sacred text and how it would come about that we would not read it. I call this blog Daf Am Haaretz as a disclaimer, lest anyone enter this site thinking they will find traditional wisdom. My notes may at times be irreverent, but they will never be gratuitously blasphemous and they will be rendered honestly, with no intention to offend.
2 Comments:
Dear Rabbi Silver,
Please be kind enough to tell me which Semicha program you attended. I am looking for private Semicha as I am not able to travel to a seminary due to family obligations.
Shalom,
Ed Horwitz
Elkridge, MD
Hello, I will be in the NJ in june and would like to meet Rabbi Moshe Silver, can you give him my contact information:
Emmanuel Doubchak
emmanueltranslations@gmail.com
Thank you in advance...
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