Category: Resources & Guides
Looking for online Jewish learning resources, how-to guides for research, and recommended readings lists? All of those are filed here.
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How to Set up a Note-Taking System in Notion
In case you hadn’t guessed already, I’m the person with the color-coded notes that everyone borrows. 🤓 Back in the day, I took handwritten notes. I went from handwriting to typing into (usually unruly) Word docs. Organizationally, I never progressed beyond “find in document.” Until I discovered Notion. I came upon Notion as a solution…
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How to Organize Google Drive for Research & Writing
You already use files every day and probably have some way of organizing them, even if it’s throwing a folder on your desktop called PROJECT X (ahem, like some people I know and love). Whether this is you, or whether organizing is your hobby (hi), you can make your work life immeasurably better by thinking…
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How to Check your Girsa (Text) of the Talmud using Hachi Garsinan
The Talmud, being a massive corpus, is often subject to questions of girsa—textual variants. This is a live question already in the Gemara itself, which occasionally treats girsa issues in the Mishnah (e.g., חסורי מחסרא והכי קתני). It is also a not uncommon issue raised by Rishonim, and then in the period of the Acharonim…
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18 Essential Readings in Modern Orthodox Thought
Inspired by R. Josh Yuter’s excellent reading list, I’m sharing my own set of impactful readings that, I think, characterize Modern Orthodox thought. There’s Torah, theology, halachic theory, extended grappling with inyana de-yoma from science to Bible criticism to feminism, and a little bit of history. A few criteria I used to navigate the ideologically…
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How to Be a Book-Loving Minimalist
I’m not a hardcore minimalist (like, I own things), but I’m very drawn to minimalism: white walls, matchy pantry containers, capsule wardrobe, that sort of thing. As you might imagine, this does not jibe particularly well with being a bookworm, especially an Orthodox Jewish one who does lots of reading over Shabbat. But yes, I…