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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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Elijah’s cup and Miriam’s well
Excerpted from “A Growing Haggadah” Fill the Cup of Elijah Our Seder draws to an end but Redemption is not yet complete. Our activities here tonight recall us to our covenant with the Eternal One, to the tasks that still … Continue reading
Plagues Suck (or: Passover in a time of plague)
A friend called me the other day wondering why the Hebrew word ״מַכּוֹת״ in the phrase: “אֵלּוּ עֶשֶׂר מַכּוֹת שֶׁהֵבִיא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עַל הַמִּצְרִים בְּמִצְרַיִם, וְאֵלּוּ הֵן:” is translated as “plagues”. He, an Israeli whose original language is Hebrew … Continue reading