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How did the על חטא (al ḥet) begin?

I don’t know.How­ev­er, I imag­ine it some­thing like this […from the archives (with minor updat­ing)]: Betha­mi knew the way down the nar­row windswept alley­ways of Tiberias blind­fold­ed The lap­ping of the tiny waves of Galilee offered a con­stant guide. She had walked this … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Neapolitan

Over the years I have been asked: What kind of a rab­bi are you? To which I answer with­out hes­i­ta­tion: A good rab­bi! And then my inter­locu­tor stam­mers a bit and says: No, no, what… oh, ah…. Are you…? At which point I gen­tly inter­rupt and say: Neapolitan

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