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of the most mysterious symbolic Passover foods and it's published by Toby bre which is an imprint of Koran Publishers and um this is a look you know it's appropriate for this time of year we're talking about right before PES where uh you know everyone comes to the Seder and you eat the oret however you want to pronounce it and it's something that's enigmatic what what is this food there's different recipes but where do the ingredients come from what is the sources what are the origins of this and Dr wart book just traced this and it's a really interesting a book and we'll get into that a little here on the podcast into that a little here on the podcast so thank you Dr wart for joining me okay nice to be with you let's start tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background um well I was born in England and I made Aliyah uh over 50 years ago um I live in Jerusalem nowadays I've got five children and six grandchildren they should only be grandchildren they should only be healthy um and um I started off as an archaeologist and got very interested in a lot of things that were written about erit srael um around the fourth century and I got into the church fathers to see what they actually had to write about erit Israel and how uh how write about erit Israel and how uh how far we could rely on them I got very involved with um St Jerome and after but after a while after I'd written my doctorate on Jerome and his picture of the holy land and whether we can rely on it or not um I got very tired of athetic Christianity and I decided I'd moved to Jewish

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1. 1:02of the most mysterious symbolic Passover foods and it's published by Toby bre which is an…
2. 6:41not a massive book it's around I want to say 150 a little bit more pages…
3. 12:55it seems to understand that when that we should know what they're talking about the only…
4. 19:34haroset the Greek dip dipping source which was called EMB um they do talk about um…
5. 25:21killed um the people of Israel the the couple separated from each other so that they…
6. 31:37the um the rambam and his now the ram says that you should put his Zar…
7. 37:51dates uh and so you're left in the end with your typical ashkanazi haroset without all…
8. 43:37book to the AR but I later on found that there was somebody even before the…
9. 49:51other people and um you mentioned the illustrations in the hagad do from Spain and there…
10. 56:08then you mentioned the raar of worms and he says how you know should he's the…

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