Jewish Life

That's really at the very heart of the amen effect. it cannot be mere coincidence that the words one would ask another on the sacred pilgrimage circle in the Temple Courtyard are.

in Hebrew: ma lakh-tell me: What happened to you/ Whats

your story? And this is precisely the formula the angel asked Hagar, the day she was found weeping and wailing in th

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Over the next few years, we took cues from Gidi's parents, brothers, and grandparents, and learned, as a community, to hold it all at once. We would have to reckon both with the great void created by his absence from this world, and with the sheer wonder of the short life he lived-adored and adoring from the moment he was born. The very embodiment

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ANASTROPHE [uh-nas-truh-feel noun. An inversion of the usual order.

From the Greek, meaning "turning upside down."

In literature, an anastrophe is a rhetorical mechanism that flips the usual order of a sentence, disturbing the expected flow of a text. It's used to rouse the reader to pay close attention to a particular point, especially something the

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But listen to the rebuke those ascetics received from the great Rabbi Yehoshua: "Okay, no meat or wine," he said

"But then you really ought to stop eating bread, too, became the meal offering can no longer be made after the destruction."

"That's fine," they said. "We can live on produce."

"Well, but you really shouldn't eat fruit either," Rabbi Ye-hos

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