Why did the patriarch Jacob see fit to strive so ardently for the birthright? [as] we learned: before the tabernacle was erected, high places, were permitted [i.e. sacrifices could be offered at privately erected altars], and the service was performed by the firstborn.
“All you nations; Praise God!
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Gwen Harwood’s marvelous poem on death ends: [Death]’ll wear my face and yours. Not as we were, thank God. As we shall be When we let go of the world, late ripe fruit falling. What we are is beyond him utterly. As wonderful as her poem may be, I do...
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The Month of Iyar is the most auspicious to pray for healing, for it was in Iyar that the Manna, which healed all who ate it, began to fall. This part of Manna’s nature became part of the
We derive the appellation for God’s Name, used in the Rosh Chodesh Mussaf – Additional Prayer – for Rosh Chodesh Iyar from the combination of letters and vowels of the following verse:
He, (Jacob) rolled the stone off the mouth of the well with one hand. Then the water rose up before him, and he watered the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother. The water [continued to] overflow from the well for twenty years [i.e., throughout the duration of Jacob’s stay in Haran] (Targum Yonatan, Bereishit 29:10).