Episode 86 Hatat
How the purification offering reinforces the eternal Jewish connection to Jerusalem.
Supplemental Materials:
- Click here to read S.Y. Agnon’s Nobel speech.
- Click here to read Menachem Begin’s speech, “We Were All Born in Jerusalem.”
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