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  • Coins of Onias I and II
    Coins of Onias I and II
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    The Other Temples

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis ask if it is possible to do service to the true God in the wrong location

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Vesselmania

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic scholars grapple with the number of sacrificial measuring cups in the First Temple

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Who Gets to Eat Sacrificial Meat?

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis raise contradictions in the rules governing ritual purity, ‘acute mourning,’ and imperfections in the priesthood

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Archaeology Without Ruins

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ ancient Talmudic rabbis look for the First and Second Temples without stones or relics to guide them

    byAdam Kirsch
  • A map of the ruins of Solomon's Temple, according to one man who lives in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. Talmudic rabbis engaged in similar acts of imagination when trying to picture rituals that took place in the First Temple, destroyed two centuries before.
    A map of the ruins of Solomon's Temple, according to one man who lives in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. Talmudic rabbis engaged in similar acts of imagination when trying to picture rituals that took place in the First Temple, destroyed two centuries before.
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    Mapping the Temple

    Daf Yomi: Talmudic rabbis, as distant from the original animal sacrifices as we are from the Civil War, try to piece together a layout that matches the Torah

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Rembrandt, The King Uzziah (Azariah) Stricken with Leprosy, 1635.
    Rembrandt, The King Uzziah (Azariah) Stricken with Leprosy, 1635.
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    When a King Sins

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the surprising origins of power’s responsibility to the governed. Plus: How the Kingdom of Judea became the Religion of Judaism.

    byAdam Kirsch
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