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Rabbi Zahavit Shalev

Rabbi Zahavit Shalev

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The martyrdom of a Chanukah heroine

The tradition of honouring those who make the ultimate sacrifice begins with an apocryphal story linked to the festival

By Rabbi Zahavit Shalev

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ainting by Jean-Baptiste Vignali, The Martyrdom of the Maccabees (1781),

A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used by the reader to mark his or her place in the text.

The sidrah: First Day Succot

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A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used by the reader to mark his or her place in the text.

Parashah of the week: Ki Tetzei

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A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used by the reader to mark his or her place in the text.

Parashah of the week: Ekev

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“So the community leadership took him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses” Numbers 15:6

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Members of the Red Rebel Brigade, an international performance artivist troupe participate in a protest rally during a global day of action on climate change in Glasgow on November 6, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - From Paris to Sydney, Nairobi to Seoul, more than 200 events are planned worldwide to demand immediate action for communities already affected by climate change, particularly in the poorer countries in the South. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Nitzavim

“When such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, ‘I shall be safe, though I follow my own wilful heart’” Deuteronomy 29:18

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September 3, 2021 09:56

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Ekev

“A land where you may eat food without stint (lo bemiskenut), where you will lack nothing” Deuteronomy 8:9

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July 29, 2021 17:03

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Tazria-Metzora

“This shall be the ritual for the metzora at the time that he is to be cleansed. When it has been reported to the priest, the priest shall go outside the camp” Leviticus 14:2-3

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April 15, 2021 14:47

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Vayakhel-Pekudei

“And the chieftains bought lapis lazuli and other stones” Exodus 35:27

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March 11, 2021 15:07

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Yitro

“Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed low and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent” Exodus 18:7

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February 5, 2021 10:38

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Vayechi

“And may they be teeming multitudes upon the earth” Genesis 48:16

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December 31, 2020 10:47

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Vayetzei

“Then Jacob kissed Rachel and broke into tears” Genesis 29:11

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November 27, 2020 09:57

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Noach

“Noah, the tiller of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”, Genesis 9:20

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October 23, 2020 09:05

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