Musings from students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2009
Since this is one of the first posts on These and Those, I thought I’d take a minute to introduce the blog, and let you all know what we want this blog to be. Pardes is an amazing place to spend time – whether it’s for a few weeks in the summer, a semester, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
So when I came to Pardes, I wanted to know what the word itself actually meant. I googled it and found that Pardes literally translates as “orchard.” Huh? Now I know this is a nice image but what does it have to do with studying Torah? Apparently quite a lot.
Text study in general can seem [...]