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The Israel Light Tradition of Honoring the Daughter of Jeffta
Each year the young women of israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of jeffta they cannot protect her life but they could protect her dignity by retelling her story. It was a tradition that appears to have continued through the writing of the book of judges but it is a tradition lost to the waxing and waning of time no longer marked by the daughters of the abrahamic faiths i wanted to do something to bring this ceremony back so i invited my friend christine over to help me honor the bible's victims of the text of terror we prepared for the ceremony for weeks christine with wood and paint eye with poetry and prose finally just before christmas while the tree was