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Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

A central figure in the development of Jewish mysticism, Luria died at 38 and left behind no significant writings.

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A couple months back, I mentioned how shocked I was that this blog never mentions Drake, one of the biggest ...

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