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to a fascinating, and sometimes surprising, peek into the origins of Passover and Shabbat, as seen through the lens of a text called the Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees, som...
We all know the story of the Maccabees, the brave Jewish warriors who fought against the oppressive decrees of the Seleucid king Antiochus. But what happened after they won? Well, ...
The Book of Maccabees I gives us a stark glimpse. Imagine this: a decree echoes across the land, reaching every corner of the kingdom. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid king, is...
Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, takes on Apion's wild accusations in his work Against Apion, and it’s a doozy. Apion, in his eagerness to smear the Jewish people...
We tend to think of Rosh ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year, as the Day of Judgment. But what if I told you the Divine courtroom is actually in session a lot more often than we realize...
That’s the kind of feeling that permeates the story of the Ari, or Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572), the great Kabbalist, and his annual pilgrimage to Meron. Every Lag ba-Omer – that ...
That, my friends, is the heart of a beautiful tradition linked to Shavuot. We know Passover commemorates the Exodus, specifically the parting of the Red Sea. But did you know that ...
And, believe it or not, even the simple act of shaking a lulav on Sukkot plays a part in this grand drama. to a fascinating passage from Tikkunei Zohar 45, a section of the Tikkune...
The Tikkunei Zohar, a central text of Kabbalah, offers a fascinating parable that speaks directly to this feeling. Imagine a king locked in a bitter dispute, a war even, with the "...
