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190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Symbolic World

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The Poetry of the Sages

There's a master at a parish, for example, that a friend of mine attends in San Diego. They do it every Sunday, which is the tradition in Ethiopia. It has to hit a certain rhythm because it's not just read aloud, but it's poetry that's sung. And so there's a saying about how the thumb is greater than the other fingers and both Jesus and Nicodemus were rabbis,. But they weren't the same type of rabbi.

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