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  • Parshah in a Nutshell: Naso
    Got no more than five minutes? The Parshah in a Nutshell is an ultra-short, one-page synopsis of the weekly Torah reading, peppered with links to related stories, essays and articles.
  • Text of Parshah: Naso
    Modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah.
  • Text of Parshah with Rashi: Naso
    A modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah with the classic commentary by Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105), universally regarded as the most basic tool for understanding the meaning of the text for schoolchild and scholar alike.
  • Parshah in Depth: Naso
    Explore the Parshah together with a hundred generations of scholars and mystics, from Moses to today. Includes a detailed summary and overview, and dozens of selected excerpts from the Midrash, Talmud, the Commentaries and the Chassidic Masters.

Education at Adams Street

Now in our second century of service to the community, the Adams Street Shul has been the home of hundreds of presentations by great rabbis and teachers.  Most of our classes are recorded.  If you can't be here in person, enjoy our online audio and video recordings.  We also have a page of links to shiurim on this week's portion, updated daily from all over the Internet.
 
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Weekly Saturday Afternoon Class
 

Everyone is invited to our weekly class on The Religious Roots of the State of Israel, which meets Saturday afternoons. 

Recently we have been analyzing Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's article Eulogy in Jerusalem, written in response to Theodore Hertzl’s death. 

The class is led by Elana Medvedovsky-Khanukaev. 

Elana was previously the Educational Director at Center Makor, and is currently a board member there, focused on developing special programs.  

Elana has a vast interest in Jewish texts and Jewish Philosophical thinking (both medieval and contemporary), and is excited to share her knowledge and passion with the wide Jewish community.

Elana is also a practicing psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, with clinical interests in classic psychoanalysis and in attachment theory. 

The class begins each Saturday at about 12:30 PM, after kiddush winds down.

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  Dvar Torah
  Jun 07, 2025
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  The Religious Roots of the State of Israel
  Jun 07, 2025
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  Dvar Torah
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Daf Yomi

Daily regimen of learning the Babylonian Talmud. This cycle takes approximately 7½ years to complete. Today's study is:

 Shevuot 36

Mishnah Yomi

A program of daily learning in which participants study two Mishnayot each day in order to finish the entire Mishnah in about six years. Today's reading is:

 Avot 3:14-15

Daily Rambam

A learning program that divides Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah legal code into daily units, to complete the whole work in three years. Today's reading is:

 Murderer and the Preservation of Life 3

Daily Chofetz Chaim

Daily study of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim, which deals with the Jewish ethics and laws of speech. The book is divided into 119 parts in a regular year and 129 parts in a leap year. Today's reading is:

 Lavin 3-4 / Book II 2.8-2.9

Daily Tehillim

Daily study of a few chapters from the 150-chapter book of Psalms (Tehillim). The entire book is completed on the final day of each Hebrew month. On months with 29 days, the 30th portion is combined with the 29th portion. Today's study is:

 Psalms 55-59

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