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Brian Geller\'s Blog Brian Geller, lives in San Francisco and is an active member in Congregation Beth Sholom, a Conservitive schule.
A venue for the propagation and dissemination of critical thought from the point of view of a American Jewish highschool student.
I call this blog Daf Am Haaretz as a disclaimer, lest anyone enter this site thinking they will find traditional wisdom. (Daf is the term for the two-sided folio of Talmud that is the daily portion of those who systematically read the Talmud in a seven-year cycle. Am Haaretz is the term the Gemara uses to describe common people whose ignorance makes them poor models for anyone who wishes to observe the tradition meticulously.) I do not read the Talmud as an authoritative text, but as an extraordinary literary creation. My notes will reflect this perspective and may at times be irreverent, but they will never be gratuitously blasphemous and they will be rendered honestly, with no intention to offend.
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