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As I have grown and experienced God in new and dynamic ways in my life, I have had a shift in perspective toward the shofar gadol, the loud blast of the ram's horn, and have come to focus more on the kol d'mma dakah, the still, small voice.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: The Unetanetokef Prayer: Living for Each Day 2010
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The word ha-gadol (elder, or greater) troubled the Rabbis, for whom Esau symbolized the Roman Empire.
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There are many examples but I believe the first occurrence is in Parshas Lech Lecha (Bereishis 12: 2) when G-d tells Avraham that he will be the father of a "goy gadol" (a great nation).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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There are many examples but I believe the first occurrence is in Parshas Lech Lecha (Bereishis 12: 2) when G-d tells Avraham that he will be the father of a "goy gadol" (a great nation).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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With the publication of Iggerot Moshe (IM), the seven-volume collection of his responsa (1959 – 1985, an eighth volume was published posthumously in 1996), his decrees entered the public realm and he was increasingly referred to as a significant leader in the Orthodox Jewish community (a gadol ha-dor).
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In Gen. 27: 1 Esau is called “his older son Esau,” and 27: 15 attests that Rebekah took “the clothes of her older [ha-gadol] son Esau […] and had her younger son Jacob put them on.”
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It would need to be under the auspices of a gadol the likes of whom does not exist in the world today….
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I was just looking through this, as I am making a talit gadol and have been thinking about techelet.
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To make a tallit gadol, buy a big piece of rectangular fabric, and skip to the part of the instructions about adding fabric to the corners, creating and reinforcing the holes, and adding tzitzit.
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I daved near Rav Simon (a gadol) and then did History (it seems the French of the 16th cent. liked having sex with indians more than religion) and then bashed my chavrusah in gemara good night.
nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002
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