I must admit, I keep wondering if I like the name Blog Midrash. I am considering changing it but keep thinking that maybe Blog Midrash is good enough. Do you like the name? If not, do you have any ideas for other names?
Deena
Archive for the ‘Administrative’ Category
Is the name “blog midrash” a keeper?
Posted in Administrative, tagged blog midrash, domain names on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s topic: Is God good?
Posted in Administrative, Deena Levenstein, Spirituality, tagged blog midrash, god, good and bad, is God good, jewish, judaism on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You know when you don’t digest something properly, it could come back up to haunt you? You think you’re done with it but then it’s back.
Well, this question, “Is God good?” is like that food. I have never been able to properly digest it so it comes back to haunt me. And because of some [...]
Finding your own way
Posted in Administrative, Contemporary, Deena Levenstein, Family, tagged children, Family, honesty, jewish, judaism, off the derech, parents, respect, self-fulfillment on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many, if not most of us, find the need to practice our Judaism in at least a slightly different way from our parents. The bigger the difference, the more difficult it potentially is. I even spoke to someone once who said that if he ever stopped being Orthodox, his parents would be absolutely devastated.
It’s interesting [...]
Thank you, Leah, for the feedback
Posted in Administrative, Deena Levenstein, tagged blogging, readers on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Leah, one of our lovely readers, I have decided to stop cutting off posts in the middle so that you have to click on “continue reading” in order to finish reading the post. She said she prefers all the content be on one page to begin with. I think I prefer that too, [...]
As fate would have it…
Posted in Administrative, Deena Levenstein, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, tagged blessings, blog midrash, fate, weekly topic on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…my brother and I both posted simultaneously on BMid (Blog Midrash) about blessings/brachot. I feel it is a sign from heaven.
mTp had asked me if I maybe wanted to give some structure to the posts on BMid by choosing a subject to be discussed every so often.
It’s a great idea so we’re going to try [...]
Thanks Dodi-Lee and mTp
Posted in Administrative, Deena Levenstein, tagged blog, blog midrash, famous, thank you on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks Dodi-Lee (or DL) and mTp for your first posts on BMid (DL quickly told me I’m not allowed to call it BM). You are fortunate enough to be two of the first four people to write on this soon to be extremely famous and very popular blog.
I loved your posts and I really look [...]
Welcome to Blog Midrash
Posted in Administrative, Deena Levenstein, tagged beit midrash, blog, jewish, judaism, young jews on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, dear visitors,
This blog is the modern beit midrash. A beit midrash is a place where Jews go to sit, study, discuss and argue about Torah and being Jewish. Of course many hand motions are used, especially thumbs through the air in a hook motion. Click here to watch a guy act this motion out [...]
