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The Hunger Wars
I don’t typically bring traditional Jewish sources into these columns. Every now and then, though, something pops up in the world of Jewish tradition which echoes so loudly in our own time that some mention of it seems more than appropriate.
The Daf Yomi cycle (in which one studies one page of Talmud a day and finishes the entire corpus in about seven and a half years—we have about two years to go in this round) is currently studying the Tractate of Avodah Zarah, which discusses social and economic relations between Jews and Gentiles. That subject is touched upon in the second of the three…
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