Said to Myself

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Contemporary Pages of Talmud:

탈무드(Talmud) : 네이버 블로그

All of these are inspired by Rabbi Avi Weinstein’s Daf on Rev. Martin Luther King

Exploring the Ideas of Machloket, Bat Kol, and Who’s Voices Count

In Memory of Arik Einstein z”l

The Rhythm of Modern Orthodoxy: Ribo During COVID

The Connection between Rav Nachman and Franz Kafka

Hannah Szenes’s Eli Eli and Tisha B’Av

Leah Goldberg’s Pine and the Landscape of Israel 

We are the World – Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie

What a Wonderful World– Bob Thiele, George Weiss, and Louis Armstrong

Ripple-Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead GRATEFUL DEAD

Bloom for Their Return- Ishay Ribo- יפרחו לשובם 

Möbius Torah

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Please tell me other texts you would like to in a contemporary pages of Talmud.

Some of the things I have written:

From Pivot to Pirouette

How We Learn and Make Meaning

What is Excellent Experiential Jewish Education?

What makes Experiential Education Special?

  • Article from Purim in NATE Now on a Hidden Ingredient of Experiential Jewish education printable  version Hidden Ingredient

Lessons Learned from Disneyland

A Fun Jewish adaptation of Footprints in the Sand by Mary Stevenson

From Mediocre to Mitzuyan: Torah Talking Points for Camp Leadership

MESSH Notes: Torah Talking Points for Camp Leadership

Post 10/7 Israel Trip Booklet

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Quote of the week

But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then erase me out of the book you have written.

~ Exodus 32:32

Said to Myself

About

My name is Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow. I have always had a deep love for the Jewish people and making the world a better place. It was while building community in the Former Soviet Union for YUSSR that I realized the transformative power of being a rabbi. After spending time learning in Israel, I moved to New York to be a charter student in Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the Open Orthodox Seminary. After graduating in 2004 until 2008 I served as the Rabbi and ran the program at St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. Now I have the great pleasure of thinking about how Judaism is seriously fun. In my mind I am up at camp every day in my work at the Foundation for Jewish Camp. My wife, Cantor Adina Frydman, and I are the proud parents of Yadid, Yishama, Emunah, and Libi.

Said to Myself

When my son Yadid was four years old he came home from daycare and reported to me that he got into trouble. He got put into timeout for throwing sand at another child. Yadid said,” Myself said to myself, I do not want to be in timeout. Myself said to my cry, I do not want to cry”. And with that we started a conversation about his conscious life. It seemed only fitting to continue that conversation with a blog with the same name.

אָמַרְתִּי אֲנִי בְּלִבִּי

My son spoke in the words of Ecclesiastes, “I said in my heart: ‘Come now, I will try you with mirth, and enjoy pleasure’; and, behold, this also was vanity.” (Kohelet 2:1) My mission is to model a life that is personally meaningful, universally relevant, and distinctly Jewish. I aspire to be frank and to speak of Torah in real life.

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