Hi:
This is Rabbi Ben Hecht, Nishma's Founding Director, and I want to welcome you to the Nishma blog. Your host will be Rabbi Richard Wolpoe, a long time friend of Nishma and a new member of Nishma's Circle of Scholars. For those of you who have been involved in the learning potential of the web, Rabbi Wolpoe's name is most familiar. He now brings his knowledge of Torah and of how to make Torah study come alive on the web to the Nishma blog. We welcome him and are excited about the potential in Torah learning that may arise from this blog.
We envision many uses for the blog. One will be a place, in addition to the Nishma Discussion Forum at our website, www.nishma.org, for individuals to comment on and discuss the many Nishma articles. The blog, of course, will also be a place for the initiation of new discussions as myself, Rabbi Wolpoe and others from the Nishma staff start new posts on important contemporary issues as well as other topics in learning. Throughout, our goal will be to meet the Nishma "commitment to the presentation of the Halachic spectrum, to the fostering of individual inquiry and to the critical investigation of contemporaty issues" all with the intent to further the development of a "wise and understanding people" (Devarim 4:6).
Take care
RBH
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