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Comments (0)The fifth chapter of Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers, begins with a celebration of the number ten. It recounts how the world was created with ten utterances; what ten things were created just after creation; how there were the ten miracles in Egypt and ten at the Red Sea; ten generations for one historic era and ten generations for another. But my favorite celebration is the ten miracles that occurred at the Temple in Jerusalem - every day and at every pilgrimage holiday, when the city was bustling and bursting with pilgrims. The mishnah lists them, ticking them off one by one (click here for the whole text): no woman ever miscarried from the smell of the sacrifices no flies were seen in the slaughterhouse the smoke from the altar never got in anyone’s… read more
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