In order to live where we live, and to continue to do so in relative safety, the army needs more men – as it has told the government repeatedly over the past year.
Our portion lists four animals that lack one of the two signs of purity. The midrash associates these four animals with the four exiles the Jewish people have experienced over the generations.
This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the intellectual world of late antiquity.
In the formative process of the exodus, the Jewish people leave a land that represents the height of pride, and they journey to a land of humility.
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