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Length: 1 hour
Synopsis: This evening (10/21/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began by reviewing the perek using a brand new Claude-produced critical translation and annotation of our perek. We raised a bunch of questions and problems, then spent the rest of the shiur developing our own approaches. Several overlapping and complementary theories were suggested and we all really liked what was said. Next time (בג"ה) I'd like to learn through Sforno's commentary, which is similar to the approaches we took.
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מקורות:
תהלים פרק צ
Claude's Critical Translation
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The Torah content for the remainder of October has been sponsored by Naomi Schwartz Rothschild, who writes: "My stepmother was nifteres. She was a mother to me for almost 20 years. She called me her daughter. She was always positive and b'simchah. My Ima also helped and then took over my father's (z״l) Partners in Torah when he had difficulty and then couldn't do it all." May the memory of Chava Leah bas Tzivia Rochel be for a blessing.

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Length: 62 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (10/7/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we started learning Tehilim 90 (a.k.a., the beginning of Book Four). This has always been one of my favorite chapters, largely due to its resemblance to Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life" (albeit from a Torah perspective), but MAN is it difficult to translate! We only got as far as the translations today, with only time for a brief stab at the pivot point at the end. I'm looking forward to getting into the meat of the analysis next week, בג"ה!
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מקורות:
תהלים פרק צ
מצודת ציון
Artscroll
Neima Novetsky (https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Metzudat_Zion/Tehillim/90.1#m7e_he,en_he_ne)
Robert Alter
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The Torah content for the remainder of October has been sponsored by Naomi Schwartz Rothschild, who writes: "My stepmother was nifteres. She was a mother to me for almost 20 years. She called me her daughter. She was always positive and b'simchah. My Ima also helped and then took over my father's (z״l) Partners in Torah when he had difficulty and then couldn't do it all." May the memory of Chava Leah bas Tzivia Rochel be for a blessing.

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Tonight’s shiur has been sponsored by Dassa, one of my early Shalhevet students, to bring awareness for people to daven for יוסף שלום בן אסתר שיינדל, “a young married guy battling a brain tumor” who had “surgical resection today and recovery ahead.” She added that the zechus of our learning should bolster our tefilah. We spend the first 10-15 minutes or so reflecting on this

Length: 59 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (9/16/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, after a few off-topic introductory reflections, we reviewed our perek and got to work trying to "land the plane." We reviewed the translation of the perek according to the Radak, then reviewed the key Radaks from last time and read the ones we didn't have time to get to. Then we attempted to come up with a Grand Theory of the perek based on the Radak. That "based on the Radak" part was the real challenge: it was SO tempting to incorporate the many ideas and themes about Rosh ha'Shanah we're familiar with ... but we had to face the fact that the Radak didn't mention any of them. We ended up with two approaches, both of which were good, and neither of which were complete. I'm happy with this round, and I look forward to the next time I get to think about this!
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תשובה א:א; ב:ו; ז:א
Ari Bleicher - Tefillat Shav: The Limits of Prayer as a Means to Understanding its Transformative Nature (https://hakirah.org/Vol%2012%20Bleicher.pdf)
תהלים פא
רד"ק (תורת חיים)
נוסח התפילה - עמידה לראש השנה
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The Torah content for the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah has been sponsored by Avital Richter, with a request that Hashem grant us all an upcoming year filled with learning and grant a

refuah sheleimah for her father. Shanah tovah!

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