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People, can we please be united in *Preserving the WS tradition*?I am thinking of creating another group: "Heated debate for Western Sepharaddim". We could discuss all these controversial subjects ("Kabbala", "Who is a Jew" etc.) there, then come back here and be friends!
Willian,I agree with you 100%.Keep up the good work.G-d Bless.---A true Sephardi.
Martin ,I am hesitant to bring up certain topics up in our group,but with mass media many thing that were taught to us by our illustrous and poorly educated Rabbis have been proven false.Until recently, students knew very little about Yosef Karo except the false information the rabbis wished to impart to their students .Many knew the wool was being pulled over their eyes among other things .Yosef...
Haim Amalem: great Rabbi, or greatest Rabbi? Yes, he is technically not S&P. But he embodies the wisdom, tolerance, and common sense that is a hallmark of the Western Sephardi tradition.
את בשורת האיוב קבלתי כרגע . אור שבט ויזמאן כבה . נסתלק מאיתנו האיש שאהב בכל ליבו ובכל מאודו .את בני המשפחה הקרובה והרחוקה. קטנים וגדולים. את הוריו אחיו ואחיותיו. במרום תמצא את מנוחתך אחי אימי האהוב. הטוב והמטיב . יחד עם אביך ואימך . אשר אותם אהבת מכל. אשריך שזכית לגדל בן ובנות לתפארת . נכדים ונכדות . אזכור אותך לעולם דודי היקר. תהי נשמתך בגן עדן עם אבותיך .
http://vozdnacao.blogspot.com/2011/07/serie-os-hahamim-de-nossa-nacao-haham.html
On Shabbat, what shir do you sing before birkat ha-mazon ?
According to the Portuguese formulary, does one refer to a sick person as bar/bat father's name or bar/bat mother's name?
so much was destroyed by the holocaust...
Trying to post this again...if you received it already, apologies.Hello to all around the world! If any of you happen to be in the New York area next month during Tisha B'Av, I would invite you to come to Shearith Israel...you will find it a special experience. Address is Central Park West at 70th St. Cheers.
"Treatise of the Truth of the Law of Moses" by Saul Levi Morteira (in Portuguese)
"The Jews and the Mosaic Law" by Isaac Leeser
merci pour rafrechir la memoire...
les escargots,los garbanzos,les pepites ,les amandes et les cacahuetes.....
chapeau ,amigo,y paisano..todavia tengo la piel de gallina.....
Hi guys I need a drawing on how to make a KULMUS... Sofruth ,is the next subject of my Intro to Judaism Lectures . Any leads.? I rather show them a feather one...my brother grows geese. :)
Anybody know of a lawyer based in Curacao, or who can work there, in the area of trust law?
I read a lot of books on the history of S&P communities (especially Amsterdam), many of the writers have a low opinion on the Jewish knowledge of the founders. "They were conversos, and therefor they knew nothing about Judaism..."This is surprising, as they had been conversos only for a few generations. Even today, after centuries of crypto-Judaism, Iberian anusim have kept relatively many Jewish ...
Turning to a more pragmatic approach. I would like to propose a unity of vision concerning Sefardic businessmen like myself. This organization would financially help build endowments for education and other necessary milestones that would help prolong/enrich our cultural religious heritage. It can be called something like: The Western Sefardic Endowment/preservation Fund. It can be set up as a tru...
ברוך ויזמאן
"Does it bother anyone else that Sephardim have begun wearing the funeral dress of Ashkenazim- the blackhats. suits, and other "garb" of Eastern European Jews ? Even Rabbi X, a well-respected Sephardi Hakham, has succumbed to this garbage. I fear for the future of Sephardi customs and traditions !!"Well, I confess that this phenomenon has been bothering me for quite a few years. It isn't a new rea...
I didn't get much reactions on the idea of organizing a weekly lecture at Midrash Sepharadi.The idea is to split the evening in two parts, the first part will be a shi`ur on Rmbam with Rabbi Kassin, the second part will be on the Western Sephardic tradition. I would like to hear ideas on how we can fill in the second part.Catriel Ceballos Jonathan Cohen Ashley Perry Uriel Milo Abshalom Saša René H...
ציון התנא רבי אושעיא איש טיריא - אשר בפקיעין . נכדיו של ימין ויזמאן ז''ל מתרודאנת . עורכים בט''ו באב את ההילולה לזכרו של התנא .
Anyone have a phone number for Association of Jewish Yemenites in the United States Inc. ?
David Ramirez, did you mean this article? I just would like to see the evidence -of considering black converts non-Jews- in Morteira's writings.Black Jews *were* buried at the Beth Hayyim cemetery.