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LOCAL COMMENTARY | THE CHOICES WE MAKE

The number four has mystic meaning

We Jews are obsessed with the number four, as this mystical number — according to our Sages of blessed memory — represents wholeness and completion. This preoccupation is never more evident than during the Festival of Pesach when the number four is utterly ubiquitous — four cups of wine; four questions; four sons; four verbs for liberation (actually, there are five, but who's really counting anyway?), etc. full story >

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