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Hamlet's Pearl and Ruth's Marriage
The contrasting marriages of Hamlet and Ruth reveal the values of Jewish matrimony.
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Paying Attention to Inattention
The children's novel The Phantom Tollbooth helps explain the reasoning for a strange Temple sacrifice.
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