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🇮🇱 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…
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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…
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Audio | 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…
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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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Audio | 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 Origins of Ashkenazi Jewry
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The Rhineland Valley (Shu"m) Communities
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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…
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Audio | 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…
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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…
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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…
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Sivan 5784: The Origins of Tikkun Leil Shavuot
🌃 The Kabbalistic practice of staying awake late into the night of the holiday of Shavuot and studying Torah has its roots in the Zohar, but was…
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