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Galilee Diary: Sukkah season

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God. -Leviticus 23:42-43

Galilee Diary: Tradition, tradition

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

Rabbi Johanan said in the name of Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai: If Israel were to keep two Sabbaths according to the laws thereof, they would be redeemed immediately.
- Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat, page 118b

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