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In the year 5785…
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may our struggles transform us and the world for growth, blessing, repair,
and especially, for peace. 
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Genesis 32:29
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preparing for פסח
• Preparations for Pesach (from "A Growing Haggadah")
• A Growing Haggadah (Web version)
• Download a PDF of the 2023 edition
• Download a PDF of the 2023 abbreviated edition
• 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?¡warning!
This site remains under considerable reconstruction.
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.
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.
`//rite on!
,\\ark Hurvitzsome 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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Unifying my life as I trim my garden
As I wrote the other day, while I prepare during the month of Elul for Rosh haShannah, I think about what is peripheral to my life, and what I should toss. Aside from blowing shofar each day during Elul, another practice has taken on … Continue reading
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I am my ♥‘s and my ♥ is mine אלול
welcome to אלול As we begin Elul, the month before Rosh haShannah, preparations for the new year start. The Hebrew word אלול is considered an acronym for the phrase from the Song of Songs: 6:3a… אני לדודי ודודי לי = I am my … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, blue, elul, lapel buttons, liturgy, ritual, rosh hashannah, shofar, soviet jewry, white
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