Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a New and old articles and

New and old articles and commentaries

Haghos HaBach

By Rabbi Shai Graucher (Compiled by)

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

of all ages

Bircas Hachamah - New Expanded Edition 52b-105a New and old articles andEvery 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