{"id":5246,"date":"2008-09-21T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2008-09-21T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:41:09","slug":"prague-gets-its-first-talmudic-academy-in-300-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5246","title":{"rendered":"Prague Gets Its First Talmudic Academy In 300 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejpress.org\/article\/news\/30397\">PRAGUE (AFP-EJP)<\/a> &#8212; Israel&rsquo;s chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, as well as several rabbis from various European countries, attended Thursday the opening ceremony of&nbsp; a new Talmudic school dedicated to famous Rabbi Judah Liva ben Betsalel,&nbsp;better known under the name of the Maharal of Prague, one of the greatest Jewish scholar. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;\">&quot;The purpose of the Maharal Institute would be to familiarize the public, Jews and non-Jews, with the writings, the ideas, the work of Maharal,&quot; Rabbi Manis Barash, said at the &nbsp;opening in old Prague. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;\">Barash, who is from New York, established twelve years ago the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Prague. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 140%;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; line-height: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">According to Czech Jewish leader Tomas Jelinek, one of the organizers of Thursday&rsquo;s inauguration, the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Talmudic institute plans to educate 10 future rabbis coming from Israel and Brazil, introducing them to the Talmud, Jewish law, ethics and mysticism as well as to Loew&#8217;s writings.<\/span><\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"182\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"blue_head1\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" class=\"List2\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(1, 0, 93); padding: 2px; vertical-align: text-top; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"229\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Tombstone of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525&ndash;1609) in Prague's old town Jewish cemetery.\" src=\"http:\/\/ejpress.org\/userfiles\/image\/MaharalGrave%202.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 2px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\">Tombstone of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525&ndash;1609) in Prague&#8217;s old town Jewish cemetery.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; line-height: 18pt;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; line-height: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">It is the first Talmudic school in Prague after a 300 hundred years break. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE (AFP-EJP) &#8212; 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