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R. Elie Kaunfer: Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life

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The Root Avar, Iron Betreish

The root avar has a very significant resonance here for Shana and Yom Kippur. When you start to pay attention to this word avar, then you're going to see that throughout the poem, the root avar shows up a number of times. In order to sort of use this literary key to unlock it, again, what I'm saying is mivatlin, cancel, is not used, mawbirin is used. That's the poet saying pay attention to the word maw birin.

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