Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities: Can You Believe It?This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities, and other bits of information that have accumulated over the centuries. This book gathers these curiosities and presents them thematically for the reader's pleasure. |
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Jewish Holidays | 1 |
ROSH HASHANA | 2 |
MISCELLANY | 3 |
YOM KIPPUR | 6 |
SUKKOT | 11 |
HANUKKAH | 16 |
PURIM | 24 |
PASSOVER | 31 |
Oddities of Dreams and Dream Interpretation | 83 |
Fantastic Jewish Beasts | 90 |
Unusual Prayers and Prayer Oddities | 96 |
Bible Curiosities | 104 |
Amazing Miracles | 116 |
OTHER MIRACULOUS SIGNS OF GOD | 120 |
BIBLICAL MIRACLE STORIES OF ELIJAH | 122 |
BIBLICAL MIRACLE STORIES OF ELISHA | 127 |
SHAVUOT | 40 |
Medicine | 49 |
Unusual Superstitions | 61 |
Judaism and the Occult | 71 |
A WHOS WHO OF DEMONS | 74 |
THE EVIL EYE | 78 |
MIRACLE STORIES IN RABBINIC WRITINGS | 131 |
Education | 142 |
Unusual Onlys | 145 |
Miscellaneous Oddities | 148 |
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