Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Fwd: Tis the Season? Nitel Nacht and the December Holidays


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New on YUTorah this Week

Yeshiva University

Center for the Jewish Future

December 21-27 • Tevet 17-23

This learning on the site this week was sponsored:

l'ilui nishmas Abraham Chaim ben Simcha Gluck

by Debbie Nossbaum in loving memory of her father, Nathan Werdiger, נתן בן שלמה אלימלך

by Yakov Haber and family to mark the yahrtzeit of his father ר' שלמה אריה בן דוב

 

by Shulamith and Joel Cohn and Family l'zecher nishmas שמחה בן יעקב הכהן

by the Gittleman Family for a refuah shleimah for יצחק בן שרה and רחל אסתר בת מרים נחמה

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A New Look at the Brain Death Debate

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Learning Aggadata Gemara

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Featured This Week

 
Navigating the December Holidays

How does a Jew in a non-Jewish sociey navigate the issues of the holiday season? Brush up on the halachot and lessons relevant to these times.

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What is Nittel Nacht?

Why would there be a time on the Jewish calendar that we aren't supposed to learn Torah?!?

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