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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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    Salt Bae

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the rabbis debate the use of the flavor-enhancing mineral in sacrificial offerings. Plus: Why wood needs to be sprinkled with salt before it is burned—over wood.

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Detail, 'Agnus Dei,' by Francisco de Zurbarán. Museo del Prado, Madrid
    Detail, 'Agnus Dei,' by Francisco de Zurbarán. Museo del Prado, Madrid
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    The Letter of the Law

    In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ how a badly educated Jew might be able to complete a sex act with an ‘impure’ woman and not be sinful while a Talmud scholar could not

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Sacrificing My Childhood

    My father taught me Talmud as a boy—whether I wanted to learn it or not

    byAlter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman
  • (Bemelman's Bar at the Carlyle by rocketlass / Stacey Shintani; some rights reserved.)
    (Bemelman's Bar at the Carlyle by rocketlass / Stacey Shintani; some rights reserved.)
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    Habitual Ritual

    A haftorah of rules and revelry

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    God’s Zagat

    Dining with the Deity has its own rules

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    Burnt Offerings

    Divine intervention in a grueling writing process

    byShalom Auslander
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