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...Oasis of Quiet. Wouk wrote the book for his fellow laymen. Gentile as well as Jew, but many a rabbi will read it for pointers on how to present and explain the meaning of the Sabbath and the holy days, the sacred symbols and rites of the Torah, the Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms...
First there was the problem of keeping his religion from growing rusty; he rose each day at 5:30 a.m., put in an hour's study of the Talmud before early service at Milwaukee's Beth Jehuda Synagogue, where he is assistant rabbi. Medical school classes began at 8 a.m., and here real complications set in. His full, black beard was a sanitary problem in surgery, requiring special snood-like surgical masks. His tallith katan, a small prayer shawl worn by many Orthodox Jews under their shirts, had to be made of cotton instead of wool -which might...
Thirty years ago a middle-aged grocer named Donald Shapiro of Scranton, Pa. signed up with a group to whom his rabbi was giving a night course in the Talmud-the vast accretion of text and commentary that forms the body of Jewish law. They studied hard-an hour a night, six nights a week. This week, after about 9,000 hours, retired Grocer Shapiro, 78, completed the course...
...Hebrew Orthodox Center-from retired Shoe Salesman Morris Greenes, 92, to Accountant Irving Sicherman, 35-look upon their nightly hour of learning as a lot more than mental painting and papering. Every one signed up for his new class, which this week was beginning to study the Talmud all over again...
...week when the rest of the Middle East was concerned with the question "What is an Arab?", Premier David Ben-Gurion's government faced a worrisome vote of confidence on the question "What is a Jew?" For thousands of years Jews have generally interpreted the Talmud to mean that only the offspring of a Jewish mother can be a Jew, and the orthodox consider the matter settled. But for the last four months the question "What is a Jew?" has been hotly debated in Israel...