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A Torah Education is College-Equivalent

Two weeks ago, the scandal of the phony university degrees broke loud and clear in secular Israeli circles. No less than the president of the Israeli Teachers' Union was forced to suspend his activities under the suspicion of having acquired his university credentials under false pretenses. It is suspected that he did not do all of the work necessary to earn his college degree but rather just paid to use another's work. He was given a financial break to look the other way as others also bought their degrees.

Tzurso Deshmayteso: The Heart of Learning
by HaRav Moshe Sh. Mayernik

Part II

The first part of this essay discussed the heart of what it means to learn and understand a part of Torah: acquiring a grasp of what Chazal call the tzurso deshmayteso. This is something that is difficult and important, as the author illustrated from halachas about beis din deliberations which show that the information can be written down but the grasp that the dayanim have of the tzurso deshmayteso may still be lost.

"Besodom Al Tovo Nafshi . . . "
by Rabbi Shimon Yerachmiel Kaplan

In parshas Vayechi (49:6), Yaakov Ovinu's rebuke to Shimon and Levi includes the following: "Besodom al tovo nafshi, bikeholom al teichad kevodi. Ki be'apom horgu ish, uvirtzonom ikru shor. Rashi there explains that this posuk is referring to two separate incidents that would take place with the descendants of Shimon and Levi.

Parched Soul
by Yochanan David

Mr. Ovadya and his son emerged from the hall of their building and were about to head towards the beis knesses for shacharis when they met their neighbor Nimrod near the mailboxes. He was perusing a newspaper he had "lifted" from one of the boxes before running off to work.


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