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#blogexodus : cleansing (waters of miriam’s well)

the cleans­ing waters of miriam’s well What fol­lows is the rit­u­al I have used at my seder since the mid 1990s. Before the Seder begins I fill the bot­tom quar­ter of a large pitch­er with slices of orange (and often sprigs of mint) then … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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#blogexodus : (learning from) the signs

the signs We each need to learn dif­fer­ent things at dif­fer­ent stages of our lives. Pharaoh was unwill­ing to release his labor sup­ply. Pharaoh thought him­self a god. He believed he could do what­ev­er he want­ed to with indi­vid­u­als or entire peo­ples. … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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