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When it is time for Rabbi to give us a blessing he makes us all turn around and then he blesses our back side. Where did he get this? In other places we have been the blessing was given to our face. I feel rather cheated out of my blessing.

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I would like to order replacement china for some of the peices that I am missing. The pattern is discontinued. The problem is sites offering discontinued patterns sometimes are selling used china and sometimes never used/from the factory. I heard that I can not use the china for a year and then kashaer it. Is this correct? How would I kosher it?

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Further to my recent question about the letter pey being larger in Berishis, and your response, I may have found an answer in my library! Lawrence Kushner in The Book of Letters (1975) states "The letter Pey is drawn a little larger than other letters in order that it can curl into itself without touching, and if it does, it becomes invalid. " I also have a facsimile of a small Torah I got many years ago from Barton's chocolates which also has large peys in the same verses I referred to!

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On Rosh Hashonah I noticed that in the second parshah of bereishis (1:11,12) that 3 times the pei of piree (fruit) was written large in pthe Torah. Can you tell me the significance of this please?

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On Rosh Hashonah I noticed that in the second parshah of bereishis (1:11,12) that 3 times the pei of piree (fruit) was written large in pthe Torah. Can you tell me the significance of this please?

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Does Vayikra 21:7 prohibit a cohen from marrying a one-time rape victim who would otherwise be a virgin? What does the word translated "polluted" there mean? My resources seem to indicate that it means pierced or wounded.

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Dear Rabbi, I am Jewish, but I would say that I have a very small comprehension of Jewish beliefs in the after-life, ie. Heaven, etc. What exactly exists in the after-life according to Judaism? Thanks, Molly

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Dear Babbi i'm not jewish but i want to be. I was living in Israel for 8 years,since april 96 until august2004 when i came to Brazil back. I'm very sad that i have to live without Israel because i want to be jewish and to come back there. My phone number in Brazil is 97832394,celular phone. Please help me i'm living a very sad life here in Brazil because i got use with Israel and there's no connection betweem Brazil with so many religions what i'm not get use anymore and Israel. Thank you very much. pRAY FOR ME FOR I GO TO STUDY FOR TO BE JEWISH IN THE SINAGOG OF BARRA DA TIJUCA it's one place here in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,my name is there,they just need to call me,the name of this sinagog is CJB,i'm asking your help,please

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I have heard that the yemenite shofar is called a celebration shofar and the rams horn is called the horn of repentance. Are these two different with different symbolic uses? Thanks