Shavuot Reflections
Shavuot, the giving of the Torah, and the genealogy of King David
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Avrohom Jacobson
May 5, 20223 min read
The Rashi Escape Room Will Be Replaced Soon. Last Chances !
Rashi Escape Room will be replaced soon; Explore Dr. Paull's lineage past Shpoler Zeide all the way back to Rashi!
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Avrohom Jacobson
Mar 28, 20224 min read
Escaped!
The escape room experience in many ways parallels the escape of the Jews from Egypt. Let's remember once more this Passover.
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Avrohom Jacobson
Mar 7, 20223 min read
The Sound of Music Everywhere
The effects of music on our mood, mental well-being and performance and its role in a Brooklyn escape room experience
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Avrohom Jacobson
Feb 18, 20223 min read
A Heavy Tree
Jewish genealogy reveals that rabbinic familial relatedness in marriages is closer than marital familial relatedness in general.
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Avrohom Jacobson
Feb 3, 20224 min read
Lineage and DNA, a lesson for a young Jew from the Peddlers and Parchment of Brooklyn.
The importance of Yichus and the difficulties of genealogy for the Jewish people. Help arrives with modern DNA testing.
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Avrohom Jacobson
Jan 20, 20225 min read
Reb Pinchas And Our Rashi Escape Room In Brooklyn
Rebbe Pinchas and his manuscripts of sacred teachings are revealed in an Escape Room in Brooklyn known as Peddlers and Parchments.
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Gamliel Beyderman
Jun 25, 20184 min read
Brooklyn Escape Rooms: Brooklyn Escape Room!
Brooklyn Escape Room has been credited by “Thrillist” with having one of the best escape rooms in NYC. They originally went by the name...
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Gamliel Beyderman
May 14, 20183 min read
Brooklyn Escape Rooms: Komnata Quest
This week we will be examining Komnata Quest, a Russian-owned escape room company that has been named #1 by USA Today’s 10 Best Readers...
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Gamliel Beyderman
May 4, 20184 min read
Lag Bomer at Our Brooklyn Escape Room
Lag Ba'omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, is quite an exceptional holiday on the Jewish calendar. The Jewish world comes together to...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Apr 29, 20183 min read
Virtual Reality (VR) in Escape Rooms
Escape rooms took off with a boom not too many years ago and are still rising in popularity, with many escape rooms continuing to pop up...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Mar 27, 20184 min read
How We Contribute to Education, Part 2
A subject that makes up a large majority of what is learnt in Yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish School, is The Talmud. The Talmud is a...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Mar 20, 20184 min read
How We Contribute to Education, Part 1
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” -Nelson Mandela Education is also the factor which links...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Mar 2, 20185 min read
The Zeide's Purim
With Purim spirit in the air, let's take a look at how the Shpoler Zeide, the hero of our first escape room, observed his joyous holiday....
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Gamliel Beyderman
Feb 25, 20185 min read
Genealogy and Escape Rooms, Part 2
Previously we discussed Arthur Kurzweil’s genealogical research into his father's side of the family. Now we will continue on his journey...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Feb 22, 20183 min read
Genealogy and Escape Rooms
Any genealogist researching their family history essentially becomes a detective, only without the official title. They must research,...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Feb 13, 20184 min read
An Icy River That Still Flows
Just a few days ago, the 19th of Shvat, marked an important day for thousands of people. The common thread between them is their shared...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Feb 2, 20183 min read
Tree of the Field. A Meditation.
“ For man is a tree of the field” -Deutoronomy 20:19 Tonight we are celebrating the New Year for Trees, Tu BShvat. As we learn from the...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Jan 26, 20182 min read
We were not the first!
“It always takes twice as long and costs twice as much as you think it will“ This well known expression deftly addresses the common...
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Gamliel Beyderman
Sep 4, 20174 min read
The Genesis of an Idea
(Based on Gamliel Beyderman's guest post previously published on Matzav.com) Over his Chanukah break, my 14-year old yeshiva bochur went...
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