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Av 5784: Rebuilding Jerusalem - The Emblematic Case of the Ramban Synagogue
🕍 What we know—and don't know—about the famously renewed synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of that Old City, and what it tells us about rebuilding in the…
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🕍 What we know—and don't know—about the famously renewed synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of that Old City, and what it tells us about rebuilding in the…
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Summer (Aliyah!) Break and Updates
🇮🇱 I'm signing off for a few weeks as my family makes aliyah, but I'll be back in time for your Av newsletter, writing from my new home in Modiin. In…
Jul 16
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Tamuz 5784: What We've Lost—and What We've Gained
🔥 An exploration of how the period of mourning beginning in Tamuz marks both destruction and renewal, exile and redemption, through the lens of our…
Jul 10
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Coffee with Rabbenu Yonah
Jan 24, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Origins of Ashkenazi Jewry
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The First Families of Ashkenaz
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The Rhineland Valley (Shu"m) Communities
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R. Chaim Vital: The Ari's Chief Disciple and Transmitter
🧿 The legacy of the Ari was closely guarded, and thus tied up in, the life and works of his self-proclaimed chief disciple, the prolific R. Chaim Vital…
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🧿 The legacy of the Ari was closely guarded, and thus tied up in, the life and works of his self-proclaimed chief disciple, the prolific R. Chaim Vital…
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The Ari - R. Itzchak Luria Ashkenazi
🧿 The enigmatic R. Yitzchak ben Shlomo Luria Ashkenazi, better known as the Ari, was a creative master of Kabbala who effected profound changes on the…
Jun 26
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🧿 The enigmatic R. Yitzchak ben Shlomo Luria Ashkenazi, better known as the Ari, was a creative master of Kabbala who effected profound changes on the…
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The Safed Circle II: R. Moshe Cordovero (Remak)
🧿 Another important figure of Pre-Lurianic Tzfat was the Kabbalist R. Moshe Cordovero, who popularized Kabbala and created a new genre of Kabblistic…
Jun 19
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Origins of Ashkenaz
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Chasidei Ashkenaz: The Rhineland Pietistic Movement
🏰 Following the harrowing events of the Crusades, rebounding Rhineland Jewish communities nurtured a small but influential pietistic movement that…
Mar 6
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The Jewish Experience of the Crusades and the Crusade Chronicles
🏰 The First Crusade in particular, but also the Second and Third Crusades, shattered the Jewish communities of the Rhineland Valley, profoundly…
Feb 28
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The Rhineland Valley (Shu"m) Communities
🏰 The cradle of Ashkenazi Jewish culture was the Rhineland Valley, and particularly the communities of Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. Today, we explore the…
Feb 13
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The First Families of Ashkenaz
🏰 The four famed families of Rome and the multi-branched Kalonymos family were renowned as founders of Ashkenazi culture. Today, we further untangle…
Feb 7
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Origins of Sefarad
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Before History: Avraham Ibn Daud and his Sefer ha-Kabbalah
🌅 Centuries before the practices of modern history emerged, R. Avraham Ibn Daud, a devout Aristotelian rabbinic Jew, wrote us one of the most important…
Oct 24, 2023
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The Journey of Yehuda ha-Levi
🌅 Sefarad's golden boy turns his back on courtly pleasures and sets his sights on his once and future country.
Oct 18, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Outsider/Insider: Shlomo Ibn Gabirol and Moshe Ibn Ezra
🌅 Today we explore the lives of two poet-philosophers, one the ultimate well-heeled Andalusi insider and the other an idiosyncratic, semi-tragic…
Oct 3, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Three Sefardi Halachists: Yitzchak Ibn Ghiyat, Ri Migash, Yehuda bar Barzillai
🌅 The these three early figures represent the flowering of Talmud learning in al-Andalus, proving influential both in the Islamicate world and in the…
Sep 27, 2023
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The Geonim
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The Late Geonic Period: Four Major Figures
🕍 The end of the Geonic period, about which we have the most information, includes four extraordinary figures who profoundly shaped the worlds of the…
Aug 29, 2023
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New Genres of Geonic Creativity
🕍 The Geonim of Babylonia created important new genres of writing which profoundly influenced, the Rishonim, including the Sheiltot, the early halachic…
Aug 22, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Geonic Yeshivot and the Exilarchate
🕍 Today we explore the functioning of the great academies of Bavel and of the office of the Reish Galuta (Exilarch), principally based on the account…
Aug 15, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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From Nasi to Gaon: Leadership in Byzantine Eretz Yisrael
🕍 We continue in our Geonim series with a closer look at the leadership situation in the Land of Israel, which had its own geonim, as well as…
Jul 25, 2023
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Premodern Aliyah
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Ramban's Aliyah in 1267
🗺️ Aged around 70, Ramban made his way to Eretz Yisrael, fleeing persecution but also chasing a dream of coming to the Land. The journey left its mark…
Jan 23
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When Yehuda ha-Levi Brought his Heart to the East
🗺️ In today's newsletter, we explore a few texts that give us a closer look at R. Yehuda ha-Levi's journey, both physical and spiritual, to the Land of…
Jan 9
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Meshullam da Volterra's Vow to Visit the Land of Israel
🗺️ A banker and gem trader, Meshullam made a vow during a time of trouble to visit Eretz Yisrael. He recorded his journey there and back to Italy in…
Dec 20, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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R. Eliyahu of Ferrara's Journey to Jerusalem
🗺️ An Italian rabbi who became a pillar of the premodern Jewish community in Jerusalem penned a succinct and fascinating letter about the reality of…
Dec 12, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Famous Hebrew Manuscripts
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Rishonim, Autographed and Illuminated
📜 For the conclusion of the Famous Hebrew Manuscript series, a look at important or beautiful manuscripts of Rashi, Rambam, and Tur.
Jul 11, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Illuminated Hebrew Bibles
📜 From Spain to Germany to Yemen, Jews of the mid- to late Middle Ages began producing decorated Bibles, some with smaller ornamentation and others…
Jul 5, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Illuminated Medieval Haggadot
📜 We continue exploring illuminated Passover haggadot with blockbuster manuscripts from Ashkenaz and Sefarad.
Jun 27, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Mysteries of the Birds' Head Haggada
📜 In the first of two newsletters focused on illuminated Passover haggadot, we take a look at medieval Ashkenazi aniconism and the perplexing…
Jun 20, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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