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Vayetze -A Working Woman

December 11, 2016by shalommorris 1 Comment

King Solomon describes the ideal woman in his acrostic poem ‘Eshet Hayil (Proverbs 31:10).’ His female model, though, may come as a bit of a surprise. He describes her as a working woman, labouring […]

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Torah

Jews and the Great Fire of London

September 29, 2016by shalommorris 2 Comments

In all of the recent fanfare surrounding the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London (2-5 September), I didn’t hear any mention of Jews. That’s for good reason. Jews […]

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Academics, Musings

Antwerp to Amsterdam – Escape and Esnoga

August 24, 2016by shalommorris 7 Comments

Amsterdam’s Portuguese Esnoga (Synagogue) was inaugurated on Shabbat Nahamu, August, 1675. Four men contributed the largest amounts towards the Esnoga’s construction. Among them was Isaac de Pinto. He was born […]

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Travels

Tisha B’ab – The Expulsion and the Holocaust Today

August 14, 2016by shalommorris 3 Comments

The Expulsion from Spain is said to have occurred on the 9th of Ab. While it may have actually transpired a couple of days beforehand, the association is still apt. […]

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Musings, Torah

Bordeaux, France

August 3, 2016by shalommorris 14 Comments

Bordeaux is one of those Spanish and Portuguese communities that I’d heard about but had never quite understood how it fit in amongst the rest of Western Sephardim. That is […]

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Travels

Nefuzot Yehuda – Bayonne, France 

August 1, 2016by shalommorris 11 Comments

In terms of Portuguese Jewry Bayonne is somewhat of a misnomer. The Jewish community was actually based on the other side of the Adour River in what is called St Esprit (where […]

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Travels

Basque Country – Following The Converso Escape Route

July 27, 2016by shalommorris 23 Comments

Basque Country is a unique and fascinating region. It preserves its own language – not like any other, though it straddles both sides of the French-Spanish border. Located just west […]

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Travels

Ki Tisa – ‘Sin’ and the Western Sephardim

March 1, 2016by shalommorris Leave a comment

I used to think of the significance of Torah portion of Ki Tisa as being about the sin of the Golden Calf, and of how the people turned away from […]

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Torah

The Sephardi Origins of the Dreidel

December 12, 2015by shalommorris 2 Comments

Whilst visiting Portugal this past summer, I was given a gift. It appeared to be a dreidel, though I was told that it was actually a Rapa, a Portuguese top […]

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Torah

Lekh Lekha – The Secret of Circumcision

October 21, 2015by shalommorris Leave a comment

The practice of newborn male circumcision is synonymous with Jews and Judaism. The Torah records that the commandment of this procedure was first directed at Abraham and his family. Since […]

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