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Nachman Levine

Nachman Levine
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Nachman Levine is a Fellow at the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Detroit Kollel Mechanchim. He has published on Tanach and Midrash and Agadah in Hakirah, Mekhilta, Megadim, Netuim, Beit Mikra, The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Bar-Ilan Jewish Studies Internet Journal, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal of Northwestern Semitic Languages, Journal of Jewish Studies, Michlol, The Journal for the Study of Judaism, Hebrew Studies, and Jewish Action. He can be reached at nachman.levine@gmail.com.

Blintzes, Sinai, Revelation: The Concrete Implications of a Custom

Through a nuanced examination of interrelated minhagim, Nachman Levine shows how the custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, on Shavuot reenacts a collective initiation into Torah Study, allowing us to reexperience Revelation.