To anyone, especially anyone new, reading these entries - if you have any questions about terminology or practice, please ask.
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December 2010
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I'm not sure whether this is what you had in mind. I'm thinking in terms of 5th century CE, when in Western Europe Jewish households were to a large extent Greek. In a Roman style house with the outside facing the street, and usually with shops along the frontage, but with an internal peristyle garden, is the internal garden an appropriate place to construct the sukkah? I had nothing in particular in mind, except I knew I had new readers who might not know all the terms I use. Thank you very much indeed! Fasted on the Sabbath? Really? That struck me fairly hard because that's the one day a week we're not permitted to fast, other than Yom Kippur. If any other fast day falls on a Sabbath, it's pushed off to Sunday. eeyeah. I don't think there were Jews in Western Europe in the 5th century, at least not beyond Italy/Greece. Possibly the Mediterranean coast of France/Spain - there is the theory that Tarshish, where Jonah fled to, is Marseilles. |