The History of the Menorah (with Prof. Steven Fine)

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

they're really outstanding or Spotify or apple podcast and if you do use apple if you would please consider especially there writing a short review as well as rating it it does help the podcast and I do appreciate those who have done so if you would like to join the Swarm chatter WhatsApp Community where EP new shows are new episodes are posted and other things I'll include a link to that in the shows notes there's one admin only chat where I post similar to what I do on Twitter news Forum book information and other things and then there are two similar chats con Ed one where you can discuss new sparm books and another and the dean pinan professor of Jewish history at yiva University and we'll be discussing the history of the manura which is something that he wrote a book on published to Harvard University press the manura from the Bible to Modern Israel and I should specify we really mean the biblical monora the one in the base of English not the minur kukia the one that relighting on kanak although we'll get into that I'm sure that will come up and we will discuss it as well but that's not what the book is focused on so thank you Professor fine for joining me I'm so happy to be here with you thank you for inviting me so let's start

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1. 1:02they're really outstanding or Spotify or apple podcast and if you do use apple if you…
2. 7:10makes sense uh why we spend so much effort with it it's hard to light oil…
3. 13:48students you don't find straight Branch Monas and then you find another 15 of them in…
4. 19:27minoras have the three kind of legs the there's a proposed emblem for the state of…
5. 25:38mishna Torah mishna commentary and his mishna Torah were made with straight branches some of them…
6. 31:48beautifully colored and so that's a relatively new kind of knowledge that developed in the 2010s…
7. 37:25the Shan was probably the first symbol that was used uh simultaneously with the manura but…
8. 43:43as they might have been after I left um but it didn't stop them from getting…
9. 49:29it's in a cave the fpas HIIT it in it's an all sorts of uh I…
10. 55:37the 1990s so somebody might have done it okay but that was a fake Jews coming…

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