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Monday, August 24, 2015

Jewish History

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception



30 Av - Elul, 5775 לנוח ולזכור
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Praise the LORD with melodies on the lyre; make music for him on the ten stringed harp. Sing a new song of praise to him; play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy. For the word of the LORD holds true, and we can trust everything he does. He loves whatever is just and good; the unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth. Psalm 33:2-5

2nd Tablets Hewn (1313 BCE)
On the last day of Av of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), Moses carved, by G-d's command, two stone tablets -- each a cube measuring 6x6x6 tefachim (a tefach, "handbreadth", is approximately 3.2 inches) -- to replace the two divinely-made tablets, on which G-d had inscribed the Ten Commandments, which Moses had smashed 42 days earlier upon witnessing Israel's worship of the Golden Calf.

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