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Can our prayers protect us? Do we suffer because we have done something wrong? What about when bad happens to the righteous? Or children? Today’s daf points out that sometimes we hold on to pain, it’s precious to us, when we don’t need to suffer. It also reminds us that everyone needs friend to pullContinue reading “Berakhot 5”

Today, I noticed that the rabbis picture King David as bragging to God about how pious he is (he wakes up at midnight to study Torah!), but by the end of the page, King David seems unsure if he will merit the world to come (a.k.a. heaven). How true! How do we act when weContinue reading “Berakhot 4”

#dafyomi thought for the day. Rabbi Yosei leaves the main road, going into a ruin where no one would see him, in order to pray. Elijah comes to him and asks him why he didn’t pray in the road, and tells him he shouldn’t pray in ruins. Rabbi Yosei says he was scared of being interrupted.Continue reading “Berakhot 3”

Okay – so one of my new years resolutions is to read a page of Talmud every day (called daf yomi). The Talmud is a sacred book in Judaism, often called the oral Torah. It is a recording of rabbinic conversations that span about 600 years. Jews around the world take on reading a pageContinue reading “Berakhot 2”