There could be a simple phone that so to speak is fine, but it has WhatsApp, and this WhatsApp is destroying the world," said Mazuz during his weekly
shiur, as quoted by Hadrei Haredim.
(Full disclosure: Rabbi Berman is a friend; we studied together in the same
shiur at YU and in classes at the Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem.) However, I think his appointment belies a much deeper malaise in American Orthodoxy that requires exploration.
The late Rabbi Joseph Apfel, a classmate of Berkovits at the Seminary, commented to me that Weinberg's
shiur often became a back and forth between Berkovits and Weinberg while the rest struggled to keep up.
A continuacion trata de la figura del <<amado>>, que considera que seria una descripcion metaforica de la kavod divina, anticipo de la especulacion teologica judia sobre el mistico cuerpo de Dios (
shiur koma).
Pimpale (Maharashtra), Sept 22 (ANI): Discovery of an oil like substance coming out of a borewell has created ripples in Pimpale village of
Shiur district in Maharashtra.
In his Shiurei Daat, in his introduction to the
shiur entitled "Nes V'Teva III," Rabbi Bloch summarizes his approach in two succinct paragraphs.
Each
shiur is compact and concise, with Rabbi Krumbain describing the need for the particular lesson in modern society.
Idit, my daughter, pointed out to me that the Hebrew for set measure,
shiur, is also the word for lesson.
His contemporary in Rome, Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, a trenchant satirist and distinguished translator, testified to the wide popularity among Italian Jews of his day of such mystical texts as the Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) and the
Shiur Komah (The Measure of the Body, i.e., of the Deity").
It is interesting to note that Ibn Hazm appears to have heard of
Shiur Qomah, the Jewish anthropomorphic text associated with the Merkavah mystical tradition, which gives the "measurements" of God (ibid., 31, 136).