August 27, 2012
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVENS! 1. Shabbat is the 7th day of the week. 2. There are 7 weeks in the counting of the Omer before Shavuot. (Leviticus 23:15) 3. In Israel, there are 7 days of Passover and Succoth. (Leviticus 23:6, 34) 4. Every 7th year, the land lays fallow during Shmita (Sabbatical year). (Leviticus 25:4) 5. After 7 cycles of Shmita, we have a Jubilee year (Yovel). (Leviticus 25:8) 6. When a close relative […]
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August 27, 2012
By: Rivka Levy Esav, the ancestor of ‘Edom’ and our modern Western culture, was an interesting character. On the one hand, appearances were everything: he played the dutiful son to a tee; he was very ‘frum’ and asked his dad, Yitzchak, lots of ‘deep’ philosophical questions about whether a person needed to tithe salt and straw; […]
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