A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow them to become part of our understandings of […]
This term, first used by medieval commentators (see Zimmerman, p. 27, note 6), is, itself, an inaccuracy: Rabbi Zera merely describes a […]
Every Passover, we read the haggadah at the seder and we are reminded of the obligation to imagine ourselves being redeemed from […]
The creators of the Mishnaic Haggadah structured it as a work of Greco-Roman rhetorical oratory, the most common and effective means of […]
For over half a century, scholars have argued that the Seder might be understood as a modified Roman symposium. Both the Roman […]
…the Israelites departed from Egypt, a country where this bread-beer was the only obtainable or national alcoholic luxury, to the land flowing […]
…I contend that the words in Exodus xii. 19, “that which is leavened,” which in Hebrew are rendered מַחְמֶצֶת, or machmetzeth, was […]
…the substance now rendered as “that which is leavened” (Exodus xii. 19) was, in reality, the Hebrew beer, a substance resembling the […]
So…can I prove that hamantaschen are contemporary sacred vulva cakes? No. But it certainly makes academic and gut sense to me: that […]
We wish to confine ourselves to showing how the mask was related to “the play element”, to “comic gaiety”, as well as […]
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