Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a Haghos HaBach

Haghos HaBach

and not junk food

and how they led the monumental Torah centers of Babylonia and North Africa

By Gertrude Hirschler (Translator) Simon Zucker (Author)

Confidant of Orthodox rabbis and secular statesmen

Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a Haghos HaBachEvery twenty eight years, for a few hours on a Wednesday morning in April, throngs of Jews fill streets, sidewalks, rooftops, and parks for one of the most infrequent rituals in Judaism. It marks the return of the sun to the exact place it occupied on the fourth day of Creation on the same day and at the same hour that the sun began to shine in the primordial heavens. The Bircas haChammah ritual bears testimony to our faith that there is a Creator a