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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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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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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…
Jun 10
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Iyar 5784: Rabbi Meir Baal ha-Nes
🕯️ The month of Iyar is dotted with sorrow and celebration, which come together in Rabbi Meir Baal ha-Nes, whose yahrtzeit falls on Pesach Sheni and is…
May 15
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Nisan 5784: The Mysterious Fifth Cup
🍷 Is one actually supposed to pour, or even drink, a fifth cup of wine at the Pesach seder? What does the Talmud actually say, and what about Eliyahu…
Apr 10
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Adar II 5784: Targum Rishon and Targum Sheni to Megillat Esther
🎭 Two expansive Aramaic translations of the Scroll of Esther give us a window into how ancient and medieval audiences understood the core text of the…
Mar 19
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Adar II 5784: Targum Rishon and Targum Sheni to Megillat Esther
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Adar I 5784: Lost Books of the Bible
❓A relatively large number of books are mentioned in Tanach that have not come down to us. What can we ascertain about their contents and whereabouts?
Feb 21
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Shevat 5784: On the Supposedly Sabbatean Origins of the Tu bi-Shevat Seder
🌱 The practices surrounding Tu bi-Shevat, the new year of the trees, go back to Geonic times and pick up Kabbalistic meaning before a brief…
Jan 17
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Tevet 5784: Of Solstice and Equinox and Danger
❄️ A close look at Rishonim on Tekufat Tevet and the other seasons, including the mysterious custom of avoiding drinking water "exposed" to the solstice…
Dec 19, 2023
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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…
Nov 21, 2023
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Kislev 5784: The Maharal's Ner Mitzvah
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Cheshvan 5784: The Pleasures and Mysteries of Sefer ha-Chinuch
🧑🎓 As we begin another cycle of Torah reading, a closer look at the Chinuch, an anonymous (perhaps!) book that enumerates the 613 commandments based…
Oct 13, 2023
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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…
Sep 15, 2023
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Elul 5783: Bachya Ibn Pakuda's Musar Classic
💖 In the season of introspection and returning, we have a powerful tool in Bachya Ibn Pakuda's Chovot ha-Levavot. Here's the inside story about this…
Aug 17, 2023
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