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Shavua Tov and another quick word on place.When Jews lost the Temple, they also lost the only structure they had for communication with God around which their continuity as a people depended. Encouraged by the Rabbis in Roman Palestine, who reinterpreted Judaism to save its religious culture, Jews began bestowing holiness on places in other ways—a minyan for prayer, a seder with aspects of temple worship to remind Jews not only of the Pesach sacrifice but also of God’s role in redemption symbolized by liberation from enslavement in Egypt. No wonder that מקום makom, the most common Hebrew word for place, is also a term for God.

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Some group recorded Eishet Chayil to the tune of John Lennon's 'Imagine' a few years ago. I tried to find it to post here, but it looks as if it was taken down perhaps because of copyright issues. It was wonderful.

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