Blood for Thought Comparative religion What will you do when

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Jews open the door for Elijah during each seder—the meal commemorating liberation from slavery and anticipating final redemption

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Blood for Thought Comparative religion What will you do whenBlood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, reinventing them as a site through which to negotiate intellectual, cultural, and religious trends and practices in their surrounding world. Rather than viewing the