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The Hebrew words for blessing (בְּרָכָה) and swimming pool (בְּרֵכָה) have the same root and spelling. How are the two related?

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If you are a member of the cast in a play, isn’t bowing toward the audience at the end, which is customary for all actors to do, forbidden by Jewish law? I have observed it done by kids at Jewish day schools.

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Who is Meshiach ben Yoseph, and where can I find more information about him?

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Shalom, Following the October 7th attack in Israel I have become more active in my Jewish faith. I had fallen away for several years but after what happened there, I have been slowly recovering my Jewish identity and practices. I went to school to study the world’s religions with a stress on my own, but lately as I’ve gotten more into my religion, I’ve started to see some very antisemitic things found in the Christian Gospels and in the Muslim Surrahs that are flat out disturbing. My question is this, where the New Testament and the Quran written to bring hatred against us? I ask this because I’ve seen not just Muslim calls to destroy our people but to a lesser extent I’ve been seeing Christian groups calling for our extermination as well. Today rabah.

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What exactly was the ephod? Was it only worn by the priest? And lastly, if so, Why was King David wear it? How did it work?