Torah Thoughts, Rabbinic Mind, and Academic Freedom

Nonetheless, in the vineyard of NAPH, a fissure of geographical, seasonal, thematic, and human proportions is detected. For the most part, Fall NAPH Annual Meetings relate to Scriptures cum Rabbinics, with American and European scholars presenting in English. Spring NAPH Language and Literature Conference is primarily conducted in Hebrew with many Israelis presenting and in attendance, Yesh va-Yesh: frustration of the non-Israeli among the Israelis. A He-brew in the making?

Historiosophy is a philosophy that engages history in order to record, remember, and perpetuate its lessons. One such way is to see factual events as examples to learn from and to live by; hence, paradigm and paradigmatic.

 חקת עולם לדרתיכם בכל מושבתיכם

 לדרתיכם חקת עולם

The appearance of God to humans.

תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהלת יעקב

כתב לך את הדברים האלה כי על פי הדברים האלה כרתי אתך ברית ואת ישראל

ואתנה לך את לחת האבן והתורה והמצוה אשר כתבתי להורתם

The seventh and eighth tractates in the order of Zera`im in the Mishnah, Tosefta and Jerusalem Talmud (Babylonian Talmud lacking)