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Tu Be’Av: Finding Your Bashert
Published in The Philadelphia Jewish Voice When is your bashert selected for you? According to the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Sotah 2a), forty days before a Jewish child is born, G-d chooses that child’s future spouse. This person is called a bashert. A bashert is one’s soul mate. In the Jewish tradition, if you have not yet been united with your bashert, you have a very auspicious day to look for that person. That day is Tu Be’Av. Tu Be’Av, the fifteenth day of the month of Av, was the holiday of the grape harvest during the times of the Temple in Jerusalem (957 BCE — 70 CE). On this day, marking the...
Read MoreSymbolic Sephardic Foods For Rosh Hashanah
Published in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice The Sephardic communtiy has a unique mystical tradition for Rosh Hashanah. Symbolic foods are served at a Rosh Hashanah Seder. Some of these foods are also puns, and are called “simanim,” or “signs.” Special blessings called “Yehi ratzones,” Ladino Hebrew for “May it be God’s will,” are chanted over these dishes. Here are some of them, and the traditions associated with them. Black-Eyed Peas And Fenugreek Black-eyed peas are called “ruvia” in Aramaic. ”Ruvia” is like the Hebrew word “rov” which means most or many. Fenugreek is...
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