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[todaysjewishholiday]

Your ask game prompts are so good, I'm having trouble picking one moment in history to travel back to. EITHER the moment Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai snuck out of Jerusalem to bargain with the Romans and set the stage for rabbinic Judaism...OR Beit Shammai locking everyone in the attic so they could get their decisions voted in.

Your *answers* are so good! Here, I'm giving you the keys to the Today's Jewish Holiday time machine. Take it for a week and let me know where you end up going.

[coffeeshoprabbi]

Who or What is Chazal?

Who or What is Chazal?

Image: A page from a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript. Found in the Cairo genizah. Public Domain.

“Chazal says…” a more advanced rabbinical students said to me, in answer to a question. I heard, “Chagall says…” and was very confused. I’d asked a question about halakhah (Jewish law) – why is he quoting a Jewish artist?

Chazal (Kha-ZAHL) is a word denoting all the sages, the ancient…

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[coffeeshoprabbi]

Meet Nittai of Arbel

Meet Nittai of Arbel

Image: The ancient synagogue of Arbel. (Photo by Bukvoed, via wikimedia.)

Nittai of Arbel says: “Keep your distance from bad neighbors, do not ally yourself with the wicked and do not abandon hope when faced with calamity.” – Pirkei Avot 1:7

We do not know much about Nittai of Arbel, but we have his words, and we can decipher them by thinking about his times. In the second century BCE, the Second…

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