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This website contains various thoughts on Torah. Everything is in progress, and most of it is pretty fragmentary. But maybe a somewhat coherent Jewish self-understanding is beginning to emerge.

shaiya rothberg

 bio

Table of Contents  תוכן ענינים

General הגות כללית

עיקריה של תפישה תורנית

הצגה תמציתית של תפישה תורנית בת ימינו

a brief presentation of the central tenets of a present-day Toraitic world view

 

Facing Hashem

a basic interpretation of the Sefirot

and the fundamentals of a more general Jewish religious self-understanding

 

Torah Min HaShamayim

a set of FAQ on the idea that the Torah is the Word of God

(an alternative presentation may be found in Facing Hashem above)

 

Rational Mysticism

(Approach to Jewish Mysticism)

 

The Depth of Halacha

(Discussion on the Binding Nature of Jewish Law)

אֹרַח ודרך

Learning Torah from Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

at the Conservative Yeshiva

 

Hesed and Din: The Tsunami

 

The Tana, where is he standing?

On the internal logic of Talmud Torah

Tefilah, Tanach, Chagim תפילה, תנ"ך, חגים

The Spoken Word

 (Commentary on the Kedusha)

 

The Moon, The Shechinah and Egalitarianism

on Tefilat Kiddush Halevanah

 

פירוש לישעיהו נה

(Commentary to Isaiah Chapter 55)

 

טרגדית כתונת הפסים

על פרשת שמות

(The Tragedy of the Multi-Colored Coat:

On Parashat Shmot)

 

סמיכת גאולה לצדק (עיון בפרשת שופטים)

(Redemption and Justice - On Parashat Shoftim. For an English

Translation see Netivot Shalom under "Parashah-English"

And then "Shoftim 5762")

 

לא תחיה כל נשמה...אף לא את נשמתך שלך

על פרשת שלח

(You Shall Leave No Soul Alive…Not Even Your Own -

On Parashat Shlach)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ki Tavo El Ha-Aretz: The Yeshivah and Eretz Yisrael

 

The All is Heard

(End of Kohelet)

 

On Hannuka

 

R. Yehuda Halevi on the Yamim Noraim (High Holy Days)

 

R. Shimon Bar Yochai on the Shabbat

 

Talking To God: The Shmah and Amidah

 

One Sentence of a Given Text

 

זה גופהּ לפנַי

על הקשר בין אהבה ותפילה

On the connection between love and prayer

 

מלכותו בקהל עדתי

על שהשכינה היא כל כך קרובה עד שקשה להגיע אליה

 

On the "Routine-ness" of Prayer

about spaces carved out by words

 

Asking Forgiveness from Hashem

a meditation before Slichot

Israel and Aliyah ישראל ועליה

 

On Yom Ha-Atsmaut (Israel Independence Day)

 

In Memory of Yitzhak Rabin

 

Talmud Torah and the "Situation"

 

משמעותן התורנית של ההתנחלויות

(Are the settlements really a Mitsvah?)

Other שונות

The Individual in Torah Life

 

מבוכים ודרקונים על יסוד מקורות יהודיים

Jewish Dungeons and Dragons

 

שָרַי: רבה לוחמת בכוחות האופל!

Rabi Sarai against the forces of Evil!

(an incomplete D&D character)

 

 

Bio

 

Summary of Doctoral Research:

The Democratization of the Jewish Political Tradition

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Shaiya Rothberg learns in the Kollel, and teaches Jewish Thought, Kabbalah and Bible, at the Conservative Yeshiva of Jerusalem. He received his B.A. in Jewish Philosophy and Talmud from Bar-Ilan University, his M.A. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, and is presently a doctoral candidate in the same field at Hebrew University (abstract of research: The Democratization of the Jewish Political Tradition - The Thought of R. Chaim Hirschensohn).

 

Rothberg lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Gittit, and three sons, Amos, Binyamin and Yotam.

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