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Learn with Rabbi Abrams! If you like the website, you’ll love learning with Rabbi Abrams in person even more! She can come to your synagogue or group as a scholar-in-residence or you can learn with her long distance via phone or skype. You can also have her teach single lectures to your group. Click here for a list of just a few of the talks available. "A TALMUD TALE" PREMIERED FEBRUARY IN HOUSTON, TX! The musical was an enormous hit! If you'd like a dvd of the show, please send a contribution of $18 for an enjoyable, entertaining and inspiring look at the world of the Talmud! MAQOM WELCOME TO MAQOM! Maqom is a school for Adult Talmud Study founded and directed by Rabbi Judith Abrams, Ph.D. Maqom is dedicated to the spiritually enlightening and intellectually honest study of Jewish texts. Maqom is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Please consider becoming a Maqom Associate (a $36 annual contribution) or a lifetime Maqom Associate (a $360 contribution) by making a tax deductible donation now. Your support is greatly needed! To see a list of our current associates, please check out our Maqom Associates page. Maqom maintains a Talmud study mailing list with the help of Shamash. The purpose of this list is for Maqom participants to share their insights and questions as they study the Talmud passages posted at Maqom's web site. Maqom is grateful to Shamash for supporting this list. This list is a part of Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium. For more information about Shamash mailing lists, visit http://listserv.shamash.org/archives/. For instructions on how to subscribe to Maqom's mailing list, click here.  What is Jewish About America’s “Favorite Pastime”? Essays and Sermons on Jews, Judaism and Baseball is now in print! To order, go to http://www.wm.edu/religion/publications.php.  How do we find our way home? A word about steroid use in baseball, and the importance of honesty in business. Click here.  The Secret World of Kabbalah is available at Amazon.com! To order, click here. Additionally, you can also download a study guide for use with the text. The musical, "A Talmud Tale," is now ready to be performed. Please download this pdf file (attached here) of the script. To stage the show and obtain the music contact Rabbi Abrams at maqom@compassnet.com. The art installation "A Journey Through Heaven" (http://www.maqom.com/heaven.html) is now available to any interested party who would like to own it and is willing to pay the shipping. Contact Rabbi Abrams at maqom@compassnet.com if you are interested. Exciting Developments in Long-Term, Intensive Talmud Study at Maqom! Those who study with Maqom now have the option of working with me on a one-on-one basis to do research and create articles about rabbinic literature that would be posted here at Maqom. If you would like to study rabbinic literature more intensely, please send me an email or telephone me at 713-723-2918. --Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, Ph.D Maqom is now making available Guided Meditations for each Torah portion, holidays and for healing. Each of the meditations has been recorded on one CD which may be requested by contacting maqom@compassnet.com. Jewish Texts: The Owner's Manual Maqom is now making available, online, a curriculum entitled "Jewish Texts: The Owner's Manual". It is designed to help learners be aware of classic Jewish texts and to give them the skills they will need to use those texts. After going through this curriculum, learners will be able to look up a chapter and verse in the Tanach, identify the basic contents of each book in the Tanach, each order of the Mishnah and each volume of the Mishneh Torah and Shulchan Aruch, tell the difference between midrash, aggadah and halakhah and be able to trace an idea through the major Jewish sources. The curriculum comes in both learner's and teacher's versions. Those conducting self-study, can check their answers by looking at the teacher's version. This curriculum can be used in supplementary schools, day schools, Basic Judaism classes and Adult Education courses. If you use the curriculum, please consider making a tax-deductible donation of $72 to Maqom, P.O. Box 31900-323, Houston, TX 77231 Thank you and enjoy! Contact Information: Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, Ph.D. MAQOM Box 323, 5300 North Braeswood Boulevard, #4, Houston, TX 77096 Phone: 713-723-2918 Email: maqom@compassnet.com Build Your Mitsvah Portfolio | Current Study Passage | Join the Discussion | Maqom Supporters | Individualized Intensive Learning | Annotated Bibliography | Previous Study Passages | A Talmud Tale | Jewish Texts: The Owner's Manual | The Tefillin Gift Shop | Guided Meditations | The Maqom Journal | Art | Links | Home | About Rabbi Abrams Maqom: A Place for the Spiritually Searching admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. © 2001 Judith Z. Abrams