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New (Iyar 4 5769): Berachot 8b: It's Mede madness!
Oldnew (Nissan 26 5769): מזרח: with gold and pomegranates.
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Introduction: Prayer before study. Berachot 3a: R. Yose learns to stay away from ruins. Berachot 3a, pt. 2: The destruction of the Temple. Berachot 5b: R. Chiyya picks an inopportune moment to bother R. Jochanan about why God takes away children. Berachot 5b, pt.2: R.Eleazar falls sick, and R. Jochanan goes to visit him. Berachot 6a: If the eye had the power to see them, no creature could endure the demons. Berachot 6b: A surprise visit and decapitation by Elijah. Berachot 6c: What is written in the tefillin of the Lord of the Universe? Berachot 7a: Cursing people with roosters: some dos and don'ts. Berachot 8a: Why you shouldn't sit on the bed of an Aramean woman. Berachot 8a - 2: 903 species of death were created in this world. Berachot 8b: It's Mede madness! Berachot 10a: Beruriah explains tshuvah to R. Meir. Berachot 12b: Shaul haMelekh is at a loss. Berachot 13a: The many troubles of Israel. Berachot 13b: Rabbis who prolong too much. Berachot 17a, pt.b: Raba concludes the amidah. Berachot 17a, pt.c: R. Jochanan concludes a book which hits too close to home. Berachot 17a, pt.d: The Holy One's promise to women. Berachot 18b: R. Chiyya and R. Jonathan take a walk through a graveyard. Berachot 18b - 2: Zeiri vs his ghost landlady. R. Yose: With facing page of explanatory notes. |
Berachot 19a: R. Eliezer vs the Beit Din. Berachot 20: Role reversal. Berachot 20a: The Adventures of R. Giddal: Boy Mikvah Lady. Berachot 23a: A student commits suicide. Berachot 24a: May two people sharing a bed recite the Sh'ma? Berachot 28a: R. Eleazar's new hair. Berachot 31a: It is forbidden to fill one's mouth with laughter in this world. Berachot 32b: Israel is comforted. Berachot 43a: Blessings for spices. Berachot 43b: Six things are unbecoming for a scholar. Berachot 54b: Something you never knew about Moshe Rabeinu. Berachot 56a: Always, ALWAYS pay your dream interpreter. Berachot 56b: Hurt and comfort in the dreamworld (sort of for Tisha B'Av) Berachot 57b: What kinds of animals are good to see in dreams? Berachot 57b, con't.: Three things enlarge a man's spirit. Berachot 60a: How to behave in the bath-house. Berachot 61a: The teacher-student relationship. Berachot 61b: Displacement. Berachot 61b - 2: The death of Rabbi Akiva. Berachot 64b: R. Eleazar wishes for peace in a hard time. א"ל: the Talmudic abbreviation for "amar lei/lehu" - "[he] said to [him/them]." In colour! End: The prayer after study. Beruriah: The death of her children, the tablets of law, and clinging to halakhah. |
Miscellaneous
מזרח: with gold and pomegranates.
Queen Esther: Because sadness and sparkles go great together.
Birkat HaBayit.
The body/lulav.
Shir HaShirim Rabbah: Four entered the garden; one died, one went mad, one became an apostate; only one went in whole and departed whole.
Tefillin Kafka: "Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into a drawer of a laundry basket-then open it to see if they've suffocated.” - Franz Kafka
Sparkle Hassid Drag King Magic. The half pound of sparkles used in this painting did not photograph, alas.
A mouse lays tefillin.
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