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From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Torah Articles - a proposal.
Message-ID: <45@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 15:01:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 15:01:18 1985
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> I am posting this article for a friend please edit your to line if you
> reply so that they go to him (his address is at the end of the article).
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> >From gth Thu Feb 14 16:53 EST 1985 remote from erc3ba
> To: pegasus!naiman
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> 	The following is an idea that I have been thinking about and
> would like to present to the net.jewish community to determine the
> interest or opposition to it. Basically, it is to present a weekly short
> to medium length (50-200 lines) dvar torah on the parshat hashavua (
> torah based article(?) on the weekly torah reading portion). I see this as
> a joint effort by several people who will take the time (about once a
> month each for four people) to put together this dvar torah and post it
> to the net. The Subject field will be agreed upon, so it will be easy
> for anyone not interested to simply n-key over the article with minimum
> effort. 
> 	I do not wish to get involved in any way with the censorship
> issue that is flaming away in the stargate or headhunter issues. While
> this group remains free and uncensored, unmoderated etc., I am
> suggesting that this particular posting be in accordance with the
> orthodox halachic tradition. In order to accomplish this and prevent one
> week four articles from being posted and then nothing for the next
> month, there need be something akin to a moderator, whose main task
> would be to make sure one person writes each week. I am not suggesting
> that anyone be prevented from submitting anything they please to the
> net. I am simply trying to find out if there are people out there who
> would like to see an article of "Divrei Torah" once a week, who may be
> interested in submitting "Divrei Torah," and that those who differ with
> halachic Judaism are willing to n-key or read as they please without
> flaming or attacking.
> 	I am willing to put together a "D'var Torah" about once a month and
> to coordinate the effort. I think that at least 3-4 other people willing
> to write every 4-8 weeks woulkd be needed to make this a reality. There
> would also have to be at least 10-15 people interested in reading a
> weekly "D'var Torah" to make it worthwhile.
> 	My site is not currently in a post mode to the net, so this is
> being posted for me. Please send any responses, comments,suggestions,
> flames etc. to me. We do get the news, so any replies to the net will
> also get to me. I will collect all responses by email and the net for two
> weeks and then summarize and start in progress if the response is
> favorable. If the response and suggestions or questions warrant it, I'll
> post an update next week.
> 
> Avi Feldblum
> uucp: {allegra, ihnp4}!pruxa!ayf
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> ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259
> Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ahuta, maxvax, cbosgd, lzmi, ...]!pegasus!naiman

EXCELLENT PROPOSAL. I would be very much interested in both reading
divrei torah on the parsha and contributing. 

                                           Ari Gross
                                           arig@cvl.arpa