Rabbi Zauzmer: What Do Dry Bones Have To Do With Passover? (April 8, 2023)
Shabbat • 13m
Every year on the Shabbat during Passover, we read a selection from the Book of Ezekiel about dry bones, and commentators have long struggled to understand the connection to the holiday. Rabbi Zauzmer conducts a deep dive into the text and adds her own hypothesis as to whose bones are referred to and why they are critical to the message of Passover.
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