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Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

Nir Rachkovsky

Rappelling to access hidden passages within the depths of the Te'omim cave, archeologists discovered a treasure trove of coins from the Bar Kokhba revolt. The greatest surprise was one peruta, a small bronze coin minted...

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The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur

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This article was published in issue 54 | Tishrei 5781 | September 2020 The leader who remade Lubavitch as a global brand. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, also known as Rayatz, in the 1920s Photo:...

Festivals of Tishrei

Divinely Plagued

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Seldom can any individual distill the defining events of his sojourn in this world into a single sentence. Yet sometimes a few words from a familiar, seminal text can evoke just such a sense of...

Pesach

Planting Seedlings

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Beginnings Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees in the Jewish calendar, has gained significantly in popularity over the generations. From a date of mainly fiscal significance for calculating agricultural tithes, it was expanded by...

Tu Bishvat

Esther – the Persian Version

תמר עילם גינדין

The book of Esther is a strange bird in the biblical zoo: God is totally absent, at least in name; assimilation is never vilified, and much of the story takes place around Passover, though the...

Purim

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

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Hasmonean generations (click image to enlarge) All in the Family Priestly families preferred to marry within their own privileged class, but the Hasmoneans took this practice to something of an extreme. Despite the rivalry between...

Hanukkah

Zohar Unzipped

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Outside the Box The Zohar is structured as a commentary on the Torah, divided into sections corresponding to the weekly portion. The commentaries in the Zohar are traditionally believed to have been handed down from...

Lag baOmer

Z-rated: For Forties Plus

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The Riddle of Knowledge What is it about this book that has had such a dramatic effect on the Jewish imagination, impressing its signature not only on Kabbala, but also on Jewish philosophy and literature...

Lag baOmer

Mystery of the Zohar

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The Quest for the Source In 1286 the Jewish world was in turmoil. Groups of rabbis and kabbalists whispered tidings of a new book of mysticism that had come to light. The rumors stated that...

Lag baOmer

Don’t Skip the Sacrifice!

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Nothing Like a Mitzva Sitting down at the Seder table today, reciting the Haggada, and recalling the paschal sacrifice it describes, do we ever give a thought to the people who still celebrate Pesach as...

Pesach

Haman’s Pockets

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Purim Powidl The triangular pastries that developed in Central Europe and spread eastward beyond the Carpathian Mountains have in recent generations become a central Purim motif. Known in Hebrew as oznei haman, or Haman’s ears,...

Purim

Holidays

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur

Divinely Plagued

Planting Seedlings

Esther – the Persian Version

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

Zohar Unzipped

Z-rated: For Forties Plus

Mystery of the Zohar

Don’t Skip the Sacrifice!

Haman’s Pockets

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Holidays

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur

Divinely Plagued

Planting Seedlings

Esther – the Persian Version

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

Zohar Unzipped

Z-rated: For Forties Plus

Mystery of the Zohar

Don’t Skip the Sacrifice!

Haman’s Pockets

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