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"Preparing Her Mouth" and "Turning Her Back": The Talmud on the “The Bad Wife” (Yevamot 63b)
Talmudic Rabbis’ Quietism, Downplaying Militarism, As Opposed to Torah Study
Talmudic Identifications of Anonymous Biblical figures
Helpful Formatting of the Talmud: Ohr Somayach’s ‘Talmud Navigator’
An Ancient Coded Letter Embedded in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 12a)
Notes on Some Historical Aspects Relating to Chanukah and the Hasmoneans in the Second Temple Period
Talmud, Medieval Manuscripts, and Spinoza: What I’m Currently Reading and Working On
Posts Relating to Current Events
Accessible Talmud - Example from Talmud Bavli, Yevamot Chapter 6 (54a)
From Herodotus to the Talmud: Additional Recommended Amazon Kindle books, on Classical Antiquity
Ancient Interpretations: Talmudic Hermeneutics and Drashot Revisited
Happy and Lucky: 'Asher', 'Gad', 'Mazal' and other Related Names in Jewish Historical Name Usage
OCR Odyssey: Taming Text Recognition for Hebrew Classics
Quirky Queries: Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Hebrew Wikipedia Entries on Talmudic Biography
From Mishnah to Josephus: A New Digital Index of Jewish Personalities in Classical Antiquity
Android Unleashed: Optimizing My Smartphone
Optimizing my Desktop: Windows Operating System, Chrome, Docs, and Colab
Spreadsheet Secrets: Underrated Spreadsheet Functions Pt.2 - Sheets and Excel
Spreadsheet Secrets: Underrated Spreadsheet Functions Pt.1
Hebrew History: A List of Some Pre-Modern Jewish Chronicles
Notes Regarding A Critical Lexicon of Names in the Talmud - Pt.2
Godly Nomenclature: Theophoric Names in the Hebrew Bible
Names from Nature: Jewish Names Derived from Animals
Quantifying the Talmud: A Technical Dive into Chapter Word Counts
Word Counts of All Chapters in Talmud Bavli
Signposts in Sacred Text: Formulaic Terms Used in Talmud Bavli
Tag, You're It: A Review of Dicta's New Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool, and Comparing it with ChatGPT4
Passions and Prohibitions: Some Notes on Sex in the Talmud
Passions and Prohibitions: Some Notes on Sex in the Hebrew Bible
Counting the Covenant: The History of Word Counts and Related Statistics of the Hebrew Bible
Word Counts of Classical Jewish Works: A Deep Dive
Some Exciting Techniques for Making a Typical Talmudic Sugya More Accessible
Some Proto-Scientific Jewish scholars, from Pre-Late Modern Period
Scraping All Paper Titles and URLs from an Academia.edu page using Google Apps Script
Automate Image Downloading Using Google Apps Script
Ancient Innovators: The First Bedouin, Blacksmith, and Musician, according to the Hebrew Bible
The Geonic Bracha on Virginity (ברכת בתולים)
Forgeries of Talmudic era works, created in the Medieval era - Pt. 1 - Shi'ur Qomah
Notes on the pronunciation of the Hebrew letter ש as 's', as opposed to 'sh' - Pt. 2
Notes on the pronunciation of the Hebrew letter ש as 's', as opposed to 'sh' - Pt. 1
Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.4
Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.3
Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.2
Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.1
Anthropomorphism and Metaphors in the Zohar and the Medieval Kabbalistic Literature
Contemporary Methods of Studying Talmud - Brisk vs. Academia; and the Artifically Intelligent Lamdan
Etymologies of personal names in the Talmud
Metaphorical Descriptions of Women in Shir HaShirim
On an important digital layout of Maimonides’ Sefer HaMitzvot
Towns in the United States with Names from the Hebrew Bible
Talmudic Sayings: Exploring The Wisdom of the Talmud
Cataloging My Blogposts: An Organized Breakdown by Category
Talmudic Stories Relating to the Destruction of the Second Temple (Gittin 55b-56a)
Tefillin and Tzitzit in the Zohar: A Case Study in Halacha and Polemics
Explanations of Nicknames Provided by the Talmud
Understanding Honorifics in the Talmudic Era
The Patronymic Puzzle: Revisiting Talmudic Names
Notes on some Literary forgeries of Jewish works in the Late Modern Period (1756-1965)
Some Notes on Disparaging Humor in Pre-modern Rabbinic Literature
On the historical accuracy of Talmudic biographical details and stories
Data Transformation for E-Commerce
Notes on controversies, polemics and bans in Modern Jewish history
The Kuzari Argument: A central claim in Ultra-Orthodox Apologetics
Recommended General Non-fiction Kindle Books (not Jewish studies)
Crafting a Personalized Travel Itinerary with ChatGPT-4, and Mapping it
Data Transformation with the Amazing New ChatGpt4 ‘Code Interpreter’, with Google Colab
Jewish Studies books on Amazon Kindle: A Discussion and Recommended Titles
Charting Jewish Studies: A Taxonomy for the 21st Century
Mobile Minimalism: Streamlining My Smartphone Layout
I'm going to European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) annual conference in Frankfurt
Further Experiments in Automating Accessible Talmud Layout
Pt.2 of Sacred Subterfuge: Stories of Deception in the Talmud
Sacred Subterfuge: Stories of Deception in the Talmud
Speaking During Sacred Silences: Interjections between Netilat Yadayim and Hamotzi
Some Non-Jewish Historical Proper Names Mentioned by Name in the Talmud
Ultra-Orthodox Apologetics: Some Notes on R’ Ahron Lopianski’s Lecture Series “Da Ma Shetashiv”
The “Sex is Food” Metaphor in the Talmud
Selected recap from the 3-day workshop, “Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era”
Workshop: Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era
Cataloguing My Blogposts: An Organized Breakdown by Theme - v1
Dicta Tools versus ChatGPT4 in Halachic Text Analysis
AI Self-Reflection: ChatGPT4’s Stance on Assuming the Role of a Rov
“Appropriate Names”: The Interplay of Aptronyms, Pseudonyms, and Epithets in the Talmud
Can Artificial Intelligence Pasken? - Pt.3
Ultra-Orthodox Tensions: The Sefaria Controversy and the Struggle Between Tradition and Modernity
Symbols and Syntax: Punctuation and Nikud in the Talmud
The Intersection of Halacha and Artificial Intelligence - Pt#2
Scripting the Talmud Part#2: Automated Rashi Text Extraction and digital layout of tzurat daf
Adventures in ChatGPT-4 and Pesak: A Confluence of Technology and Tradition
Is There Pesak for Belief in Orthodox Judaism?
Maimonides' Omissions: Explaining Exclusions from Mishneh Torah
The Satmar Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum: Reviewing his Biography, Beliefs, and Controversies
Scripting the Talmud: Automated Talmudic Text Extraction and Formatting
Faith in Flux: Voices from the Fringes of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Releasing the Pressure: A Dive into Freud's Hydraulic Model of the Mind
Waves from the West: Uncovering some Greco-Roman Undercurrents in the Sea of Talmud
Pilgrimage to the Past: The Yeshiva University Family Discovery Club Visits Ellis Island - 2014
A Century of US Names, Pt 1: Male Monikers with Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman, and Germanic Roots
A Prospectus for a Large Language Model (LLM) to Facilitate Researching Rabbinic Onomastics
Scripture and Structure: The Definition of "Torah" and Taxonomies of Traditional Jewish Literature
Yeshivish Dialect in the Landscape of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Orthodox Judaism, Religious Coercion, and Halacha
Guide to Online Resources for Scholarly Jewish Study and Research - 2023