By Israel Drazin The Real Reason for the Additional Day of Holidays Part Three This essay is taken from my book Maimonides and the Biblical Prophets. Because of its length, I am dividing it into three parts. Since I discussed what I think is the true reason why an extra day was added to [...]
By Israel Drazin The Real Reason for the Additional Day of Holidays Part two This essay is taken from my book Maimonides and the Biblical Prophets. Because of its length, I am dividing it into three parts. To understand the origin of the added day to biblical holidays, we must first understand the [...]
By Israel Drazin The Real Reason for the Additional Day of Holidays Part one This essay is taken from my book Maimonides and the Biblical Prophets. Because of its length, I am dividing it into three parts. Few people know why Jewish tradition added a day to the biblically assigned number for Passover, Shavuot, [...]
