Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a of all ages

of all ages

Wherever he settled

By Gertrude Hirschler (Translator) Simon Zucker (Author)

describes what happened when Shabbesai Tzvi triggered one of the most disastrous episodes of our history

and how they led the monumental Torah centers of Babylonia and North Africa

Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a of all agesEvery twenty eight years, for a few hours on a Wednesday morning in April, throngs of Jews fill streets, sidewalks, rooftops, and parks for one of the most infrequent rituals in Judaism. It marks the return of the sun to the exact place it occupied on the fourth day of Creation on the same day and at the same hour that the sun began to shine in the primordial heavens. The Bircas haChammah ritual bears testimony to our faith that there is a Creator a