Reuven Chaim Klein

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The Talmud (Shabbat 146a, Yevamot 103b, Avodah Zarah 26b) relates that when the Jews stood upon Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, something miraculous and extraordinary happened: All the Jews were cured of the zuhamah that had infected mankind ever since the primordial snake injected Eve with its zuhamah.

1 week ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Reuven Chaim Klein

“It was in the second year in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud ascended from upon the Tabernacle of the Testimony” (Num. 10:11). On that very day of the year in the Jewish Calendar, my grandfather Dovid (Dezider) Messinger returned his soul to his Maker in the year 2009. He hailed from a small village in Slovakia called Horne Saliby, whence he lived before the Holocaust and to where he returned afterward.

2 weeks ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Reuven Chaim Klein

Even though back in ancient times, they may not have had all the complex financial instruments that we use nowadays, people were certainly well-aware of the concept of “money,” and its use as legal tender. In this essay, we look at several terms in Mishnaic Hebrew that refer to the idea of “money,” and try to differentiate between these apparent synonyms. Those words include mammon, damim, maot, zuzim, and more. In doing so, we will touch on issues of etymology, history, and much more.

3 weeks ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Reuven Chaim Klein

On the 9th of Iyyar in the year 2017, my grandmother Rose (Roszi) Klein passed away. She was born in 1928 in the Hungarian town of Bonyhad to Meir and Devorah Kuttner. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and living in Hungary for a decade after the war, she moved to Brooklyn, NY where married and raised her family. In line with her name, my grandmother had a special appreciation of flowers and I have fond memories of visiting the botanical gardens with her.