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Deuteronomy 5:14 tn There is some degree of paronomasia (wordplay) here: “the seventh (הַשְּׁבִיעִי, hasheviʿi) day is the Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbat).” Otherwise, the words have nothing in common, since “Sabbath” is derived fro...
Or a Shabbat anything for that matter… oh wait I did go to Friday night Services the night before my kids B’nei Mitzvah… But that covers it for my 52 years. So let me say that Shabbat in Jerusalem, in the Old City, is probably the most super charged version of Shabbat there is...
At the root, although there is no ‘catch-all’ that tells the story of every single Jew in all of the Arab lands – it was belief in the supremacy of Islam, rising Arab nationalism and Islamic antisemitism that all played their role. Whilst it is true that Jewish history in the MENA...
(whose original meaning is connect-ed to separate and to be separated) practices that servedto distinguish Israel or theJews asapeople from other nations, among others, dietary laws, dress codes,and theShabbat.The rabbis expandedthe rangeofpractices to cover all aspects of ordinarylife, actions...
Hosted a friend for Shabbat Thanksgiving to help sooth her nerves beforearguing before the Supreme Court Attended a last-night-of-Hannukah holiday potluck (yum!) Attended and helpeddeep fried a kosher turkeyat “Friendsgivikkah” pot-luck feast ...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran