Readings for Shabbat and the Tenth of Tevet
This
week’s Torah readings provide another example of the Jewish belief that life is
a combination of the bitter and the sweet, sort of like when we dip the bitter
herbs into the sweet charoset at the…
December 23
800: Today, Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the
Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler “took an oath of purgation
concerning the charges of adultery and perjury brought against him, and his
opp…
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