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(ac)counting

Posted on 2013/04/17 by davka

let me count the (w/d)ays The peri­od between Pesach and Shavuot was one of seri­ous ten­sion in ancient Israel. The bar­ley har­vest began at Pesach and the wheat har­vest end­ed near the time of Shavuot. More was at stake dur­ing … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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jewish environmentalism and tu b’sh’vat

Posted on 2013/01/19 by davka

updat­ed Jan­u­ary 10, 2026 a thought regard­ing the his­to­ry of Jew­ish envi­ron­men­tal­ism (boost­ed to the top for 1st of Sh’vat, 5786 = Mon, 19 Jan­u­ary 2026) In Jan­u­ary of 1970 I need­ed to make (what for me then was) a sig­nif­i­cant per­son­al deci­sion. Accord­ing the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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