Tag: rosh hashanah
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Studying in Public: Keeping My Nose in the Books on the High Holidays
One of the leading scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls prays at a modern orthodox synagogue I have attended on occasion.* While he prays, he keeps open before him a number of books – midrashim on the Torah and Talmud, I believe. When there is a break in the service, he turns to his other…