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Blintzes, Sinai, Revelation: The Concrete Implications of a Custom

JL;DR SUMMARY Nachman Levine explores the Shavuot custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, highlighting its connection to the medieval Jewish tradition of Hakhnasah Le-Heder, where children began their Torah education. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CustomsTorah StudyShavuotRevelation At SinaiMinhagMedieval JewryRhinelandMattan TorahBlintzesHakhnasah Le Heder

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Rhineland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
"A cursory review of the laws and customs of eating milchigs (dairy foods) on Shavuot in its sources in the halakhic literature led me, in a happy series of events over time, to the 12th-century Rhineland (so to speak), collective and personal revelation at Sinai, the classic eastern European heder, a scathing critiqueby a protgof Gershom Scholoms anarchistic, antinomian, nihilistic reading of a teaching of the Rimanover Rebbe, to an early 19th-century heder setting, and again, Sinai."
Rottenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
"In the 13th-century Sefer Minhagim of R. Meir b. Barukh of Rottenburg (Minhagei Shavuot):[4]"

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