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Hosea, himself married to a faithless wife, blasts the Jews for being unfaithful to God
But in the end both "Husband " and "Wife" decide to preserve the "marriage" and have a second אֵרוּסִין
3 years, 4 months ago
Shavuos and Matan Torah: Famous Critiques of the Chinuch-System of the Old Days
An exercise in pedagogy
3 years, 4 months ago
Parshas Bamidbar: The Logistics of the March from Sinai to the Promised Land
A foreshadowing of the future history of the Jewish People in their march through history from Galus to Galus
3 years, 4 months ago
Post medieval opinions re: Summum Bonum -Kabbalistic
An infinitely-more complex understanding of life after death and שָׂכָר וְעֹנֶשׁ
3 years, 4 months ago
Three Items from the Era of Sabbatean Fights (Genazym)
Original Manuscript of סֵפֶר "שָׁרְשֵׁי שֵׁמוֹת" מֵהָרֶמֶ"ז, and two original classics from the Emden-Eibeschutz fights: לֻחוֹת עֵדוּת" וְ"סֵפֶר שִׁמ…
3 years, 4 months ago
Abraham Benveniste (15th Century): Restored Yiddishkeit to a Bleeding Spanish Jewry
He used his relationship with PM Alvaro de Luna to help his suffering fellow Jews
3 years, 4 months ago
Genazym Offers a חומש from Prague from the בַּעַל שׁוּ"ת תְּשׁוּבָה מֵאַהֲבָה & His Close Catholic Friend
the Austrian Censor Carolus Fischer, the only copy the Austrian courts trusted that a Jew wouldn't lie
3 years, 4 months ago
A Venetian Jewish MD and Spy in the 17th Century, Liked by Both Sides
Israel Conegliano, a graduate of Padua, a fum Jew, physician to the highest Turkish officials, and a brilliant diplomat
3 years, 4 months ago
The Prophet Jeremiah attacks syncretism & demands radical severance from paganism
The gentiles say, "Our religion was completely false." What about the Jews?
3 years, 5 months ago
Bechukosai: The Historical Significance of וְאֶתְכֶם אֶזָּרֶה בַּגּוֹיִם
The negative effects of the lack of geographic contiguity in גלות in Jewish history
3 years, 5 months ago