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One of my dear friends and colleagues, Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, has for several years now challenged us to blog Exodus. She has come up with daily themes.

Every day is Labor Day. Jewish tradition expounds the importance of work and those who do it. Even God worked for six days and then rested on Shabbat. The Jewish vision of the messianic era is not an age of idleness, but rather one in which swords become plowshares.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

The details of the lunar cycle have been understood for thousands of years. 

The Case for Applesauce
by Laurence Kaufman