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Letter to the Editor: On Kashering for Passover
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Since time immemorial Jews in every city would customarily kasher the dishes they use throughout the year for Passover—glassware by soaking, and pots by heating them to a very high temperature. But a…

Contributor:

Rosalea Gershenowitz, Alexander Zederbaum

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Holidays, Economic life, Piety, Passover

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology
Torat ha-‘olah (Law of the Burnt Offering): On the Lunar Calendar
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I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…

Contributor:

Moses Isserles

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Lithuania)

Date:

1570

Subjects:

Astronomy, Holidays, Rosh Ḥodesh, Sacrifice

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy