TweetShare via emailThis week we are marking the fifth Yahrtzeit of my father-in-law, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld. He was a leading researcher in the field of computer vision, and was also a scholar of Torah with keen insight. He graced Torah.org with two classes in Jewish Law, one each at the basic and advanced levels. …
Monthly Archive: February 2009
Feb
13
The Message of the Tablets
TweetShare via emailThis Shabbos, Jewish congregations around the world read Parshas Yisro, which describes our receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. G-d made Ten Dibros, or Declarations (commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments, but by all accounts there are more than ten Mitzvos therein), which were inscribed upon two Tablets. Our Sages point out …
Feb
09
Rabbi Noach Weinberg, of Blessed Memory
TweetShare via emailThis week, we share in the mourning for Rabbi Noach Weinberg, founder and leader of Aish HaTorah until his passing on Thursday. As I detail in a post on Cross-Currents, I attended only one of his classes (until I, much later, was involved in outreach myself) — but that one occasion is burned …
