DAVID HOFFMEISTER WIKIPEDIA - AN OVERVIEW

If your look at of *Abudarham, which the haftarah was instituted throughout the persecutions of *Antiochus Epiphanes as an alternative with the proscribed reading on the Pentateuch, may be acknowledged, it might equally have already been a sort of protest versus the royal aspirations in the *Hasmoneans, who were not of royal stock. A curious refere