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Product Description: In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature, Green demonstrates the ways in which the rabbis’ reading of biblical texts and their intimate experience with aromatics build and deepen their interpretations...read more

Product Description: This volume focuses on the work Beer Sheva (Seven Wells), which was written in Yiddish by Rabbi Beer Shmuel Issachar and his wife Bella Perlhefter of Prague at the turn of the eighteenth century. As a book of remembrance and consolation, it was dedicated to the couple's seven deceased children...read more

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