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Archive for December, 2007

Revised 12.11.07
Hanukkah has arrived, the “Festival of Lights” celebrating both the military victory of the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks (c. 165 BCE) and the purported miracle of the oil which burned in the ner tamid (eternal light) in the temple of Jerusalem after it was regained and purified ritually.
My knitted Hanukkah menorah (or hanukkiah) [...]

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“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” Rabbi Hisdah, Babylonian Talmud,Ber. 55b
By now enough of Genesis has gone by to hear repetitions, resonances, and echoes. Studying Torah this week raises questions about method: how we go about the process of reading our text, the ways [...]

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