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Zevachim 42
A Matter of Time
Ancient Israel, Ancient/Medieval Jewish History
A Comprehensive Overview of Ancient Jewish Sacrifice
In antiquity, sacrifice was the primary way of worshipping God.
The Jewish Life of Aramaic
From the Bible to the Seder table to the Kaddish, Aramaic has never left Jewish lips.
‘Bad Jews’
Self-judgment gets a bad rap. But is it such a terrible thing to appraise the life we’re living?
Eat, Sephardic Food, Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Cuisine: How It Emerged, Evolved, and Persisted
For centuries, Sephardic food was shaped not only by flavors and ingredients, but also by the need for Jews to conceal their identity.
The Conversion Process and the Covenant
For the Israelites, acceptance of the covenant was twofold: identification with the people through circumcision in Egypt and acceptance of God at Sinai.
Psalm 92: Cultivating Shabbat Consciousness
The psalm associated with Shabbat aims to induce a state of awareness in which human perception realigns with divine creation.
An Insult and a Very Jewish Conversation
When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...