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Is the purification ritual or spiritual?
Dr.
David Bernat
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A set of homilies from the Genizah connects two biblical readings (sidrot) in Leviticus by emphasizing the importance of the mitzvah of orlah as a key to inheriting and remaining on the land.
Shana Strauch-Schick
Tova Sacher