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Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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What's the Core of Judaism?

There were scattered jewish communities across the world. They would have come together around teachers and scholars of the law, people we now call rabbis. After that point, there's a lot we don't know about what happened to them. The answer is pharsaism. Those are the predecessors to all the rabbis that we learn about. And it seems like for a long time here, the real big centre of jewish study was babylon.

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