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Bringing premodern Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts to life, from the famous to the obscure. The audio version of the weekly newsletter, read aloud by the author.
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Estori ha-Parchi: Medieval Geographer of Eretz Yisrael
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Estori ha-Parchi: Medieval Geographer of Eretz Yisrael
🗺️ Exiled from France, Estori made his way the Land of Israel, where he became one of its most significant premodern geographers, making insights of…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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R. Yechiel of Paris and his Messenger, Yaakov, in the Land of Israel
🗺️ The great Tosafist Yechiel of Paris made his way to Eretz Yisrael c. 1260, establishing a yeshiva in Akko (Acre). His messenger, sent out to solicit…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
9:38
The Aliyah of 300 Rabbis in 1211
🗺️ In the early twelfth century, several groups of learned Jews, mainly from France, England, and Provence, reached Eretz Yisrael. What do we know…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Kislev 5784: The Maharal's Ner Mitzvah
🕯️ As part of his unique project, the Maharal of Prague wrote a Chanuka sefer called Ner Mitzvah. It's a gateway into his broader thought and method…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Petachia of Regensburg: A Medieval Ashkenazi Jew Travels to the East
🗺️ Petachia, from a Tosafist family, traveled overland through Eastern Europe to reach Babylonia (Iraq) and the Land of Israel, leaving behind notes…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Binyamin of Tudela: An Extraordinary Medieval Traveler
🗺️ We begin a series on premodern aliyah to the Land of Israel with the superlative world traveler Binyamin of Tudela, who detailed his visit to the…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:42
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…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Journey of R. Yehuda ha-Levi
🌅 Sefarad's golden boy turns his back on courtly pleasures and sets his sights on his once and future country.
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
10:33
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…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:18
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…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
12:17
The Warrior-Poet: Shmuel ha-Nagid
🌅 An icon of "Golden Age" Sefarad, the life of Shmuel ha-Nagid is at once representative of the opportunities available to medieval Jews in Muslim…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Tishrei 5784: The Great Calendar Controversy
🗓️ Exactly 1000 years ago, Eretz Yisrael and the diaspora were bitterly divided over the date of holidays with communities observing Pesach & Yom…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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