The Insurrectionists’ Reward

ON SUNDAY, June 13th, people occupied the intersection of Lake Street and Girard Avenue in Minneapolis to hold a vigil for well-known community organizer Winston Smith, killed by sheriff’s deputies ten days earlier. Shortly before midnight, a car drove into the crowd at high speed, injuring several and killing Deona Marie Knajdek Erickson. The National […]

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Yoma 74

In Leviticus chapters 23 and 16 the Torah commands two things explicitly about Yom Kippur: that we do no work and that we “afflict” ourselves. The Hebrew phrase, anitem et nafshoteyhem, and the verbal root of the word for affliction(ayn, nun, yud) are used in all the places that the Torah talks about the proper observance of Yom Kippur. The problem is: […]

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