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Wine Not? The missing holiday whose time has come

JL;DR SUMMARY Aton Holzer explores the minor Jewish festival of the fifteenth of Av, or Tu Be-Av, traditionally overshadowed but with rich historical and theological significance. 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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TalmudJewish FestivalsMidrashWineRabbinic LiteratureBiblical NarrativesTu Be AvAndalusian JudaismMishnaic Traditions

Places mentioned

Rishon Lezion, Central District, Israel
"In Israel, the day was reclaimed with the first Aliyah for the founding of Rishon Lezion in 1882."
Shilo, Central District, Israel
"marked by dances in the vineyards around the tabernacle in Shilo."
Jerusalem, Central District, Israel
"not with the mourning period for Jerusalem."
Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"worrying nightly for my daughter in Herzliya."
Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Israel
"our own family in Beit Shemesh."
Paris, France
"of the wineries at Rishon LeZion and Zichron Yaacov, where my paternal great-grandfather Samuel Holzer stomped grapes in a four-year interlude between escaping conscription in Galicia and seeking Stateside medical treatment."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"a Yiddish excursus on the weekly Torah portion at the conclusion of a Talmud shiur at the Morya synagogue in Manhattan, R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik offered an explanation for the juxtaposition of the Sin of the Spies."
California, United States
"produces in both California and Israel, thus being first to straddle that temporal watershed."

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