Talmud Pages

  • In this article Dr. Eric Caplan, the Vice-President and Academic Advisor of the Kaplan Center, explore the way in which we might “draw out” of an ancient text a value that can function for us as it did for our ancestors even if the language is changed.  Mordecai Kaplan had called this process revaluation. Kaplan…

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  • From Rabbi Morris Allen:   In a Haggadah text filled with awe and wonder, perhaps the most significant comment Marcia Falk adds to the traditional Haggadah is this:By far the most important symbol at the table is the community of participants.  “Whether two people or thirty are in attendance, tonight we represent am yisra’el,  the people…

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  • From Rabbi Morris Allen:   In a Haggadah text filled with awe and wonder, perhaps the most significant comment Marcia Falk adds to the traditional Haggadah is this:By far the most important symbol at the table is the community of participants.  “Whether two people or thirty are in attendance, tonight we represent am yisra’el,  the people…

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