Passover (and Purim) and Shavuot Jews
Since the high holidays and Sukkot will be upon us soon, let鈥檚 talk this week about springtime holidays鈥 No, really 鈥 as you鈥檒l see in a moment I鈥檓 actually quite serious about this.
One of the most familiar verses of this week鈥檚 parashah is famous for the way in which it has long been creatively (mis)quoted in Jewish liturgy, that is, in a crucial ceremony of the Jewish calendar. In (transliterated) Hebrew it reads:
鈥淎rami oved avi鈥 (Deut. 26:5)
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