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Tag: Torah study

Ameilut in the Age of AI

Max Hollander examines the relationship between Jewish thought and AI through the lens of the value of amelut.

Blintzes, Sinai, Revelation: The Concrete Implications of a Custom

Through a nuanced examination of interrelated minhagim, Nachman Levine shows how the custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, on Shavuot reenacts a collective initiation into Torah Study, allowing us to reexperience Revelation.

Yatziv Pitgam: Poetry as Talmud Commentary

How should we understand Yatziv Pitgam, the enigmatic poem recited in the Haftarah for the second day of Shavuot? Tzvi Novick’s close reading reveals it to be a paean to the Torah and those who study it.