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In the year 5786…
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as we seek to tend to our world in righteousness, may the light sown within it shine within us as well.
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Psalm 97:11a
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featured page:
A Letter to all Good People preparing for פסח
• A Growing Haggadah (Web version)
• Download a PDF of the 2023 edition
• Download a PDF of the 2026 edition for young families
• Download a PDF of "My Very Own Growing Haggadah" (for the pre-literate)
• Haggadah and Liberation
• Consider a “secondary” Seder Plate
• vegetarian shankbone
• why the middle matzah?
• beyond the straits and narrow
• Let My People Go (Отпусти народ мой) [that they may serve me]!
• Why Wine?-
preparing for פסח
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¡warning!
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This site remains under considerable reconstruction.
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Most pages should still be available in their original location. However, I will be moving the vast majority of the old site (static html pages) into the Web 2.0 (blog) site. If you experience any "link rot", please let me know.
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When I initially created this site I organized the material into what seemed to be meaningful categories (in the days before "tags"). But the time came when, it was hard to figure out which link to click if you wanted to know about Sammy Levinger's ("who"?) death ("what"?) while fighting during the Spanish Civil War ("when"?), though we had visited Belchite the site ("where?") of the battle where he sustained his mortal wounds. The new tools should make this process easier.
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`//rite on!
,\\ark Hurvitz some sayings of ר‘משבצונה“ל
For many years I have worked hard, and struggled with mastering virtuous. Now, in addition, I’m working on becoming more virtual.
This is an expression of that effort.
* * * * * * *השיבנו ה‘ אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו
כעוד לא היו
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ומביא גאלה…
לצאצאיהם-
All photographs are by Mark Hurvitz unless they are obviously not (or credit otherwise is given).
The photos in the banner at the top (only a shallow sliver of a much larger photo) are either from our home or our travels and are offered for their beauty alone (though a brain-teaser for me: "Where was that?").
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Category Archives: judaica
for multiple transgressions of…
…it’s time to keep this more readily available. The words of Amos, who was among the writers of Tel Aviv, which he saw, concerning Israel in the days of Castro, Sartre, Russell and all the rest… The following text appeared in … Continue reading
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are you slow to fast?
fasting for darfur As noted in an earlier post on this blog, on the 26 of Sivan 5769 (corresponding to June 17–18, 2009) I fasted to call attention to the continuing genocide in Darfur. One of my regular readers shared a comment … Continue reading