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29 May

The “Weeks!” Edition

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JL;DR SUMMARY Exploring the multifaceted holiday of Shavuot, the podcast delves into its historical, agricultural, religious, and cultural aspects, tracing its evolution from biblical times to modern-day Israel. 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 Culture  Jewish Tradition  Zionism  Resilience  Kibbutz  Agriculture  Shavuot  Biblical Holidays  Holiday Evolution 

Places mentioned

Israel
"This holiday was not only a festival of nature, a celebration of the first fruits of the land and of labor."
Palestinian Territories
"This century and some, since Jews in Palestine, in the land of Israel, decided to make Shabuot into something different than it was."
Be'eri, Southern District, Israel
"Be'eri had been started less than two years before, on October 6th, 1946."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"There is one I love from Tel Aviv in 1931."
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
"About Shabuot in 1932, Menachem Ushishkin, the head of the Zionist commission in Palestine and the head of the Jewish National Fund, not at all a religious man, he said in a speech at one of the first Bikurim festivals in Haifa."
Jerusalem, Israel
"And you can find similar photographs from Haifa and Jerusalem."
Galilee, Northern District, Israel
"... to a family of Hasidim in Poland, and was now a godless farmer making things grow within view of the Sea of Galilee."
Kibbutz Ein Harod, Northern District, Israel
"Shlomo or Shlomi Lavi whom David Ben-Gurion once called the most wondrous person of the second Aliyah and who was elected to the first Knesset at 1967, making him the oldest member of that very young body in 1951. Back in 1937, he spoke to his fellow members of Kibbutz Ein Harod and he said, quote, my friends, have you felt this privilege, the privilege of reviving an ancient custom, sanctifying an ancient custom such that our generation has been given a custom with such meaning and so much culture inherent in it."
Poland
"And in the way of zealots everywhere, there were those like Zev Ezekiel, Joskowitz, Yosefan himself, who thought this new kids in white with flowers in their hair, bearing baskets of wheat and fruit shavuot, ought to bury the old shavuot, the one that he had grown up with in Poland."

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