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...still Americans starving, as well as Asians, and still many citizens in need of homes and education and the prospects of hope. These unsatisfied needs cannot be blamed on Viet Nam. If the cries of the needy persist in the '70s there will be a social tragedy: the rav ages of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Postwar US.: The Scapegoat Is Gone | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud, in contrast to the Palestinian Talmud, a similar but less authoritative Gemara done a century earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews: The Talmud in Paperback | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...From Moses to Moses there has been no man like Moses," said Israel's President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem's Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish saying. They had assembled to honor the second Moses, the great philosopher Maimonides, who brought the Law and tradition of Judaism within the compass of Western thought. Around the walls of the institute were some 3,000 old and battered volumes, stained from centuries of diligent study. The exhibition of his work was the first of many celebrations of Maimonides Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rambam | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"-the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron. The disturbance created in the fluids by a particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holiday | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Lord '03 Fewa Crops, Minister of Agriculture, V. C. Mather '03 Creedan Bighat, Guardian of Temple, A. S. Thurston '03 General Deva Stashion, J. S. Seabury '04 Lao, Guardian of the Shrine, R. W. Page '03 Mao, Guardian of the Shrine, G. D. Boardman '03 Priest to Rav, R. W. Ruhl, '03 To To, a herald, R. W. Page '03 Unda, Princess of Kunda, Duenna, W. S. Sugden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hasty Pudding Club Play. | 3/23/1903 | See Source »

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