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Why Ezra Matters so Much More - This Week

Why Ezra Matters so Much More - This Week

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Apr 28, 2025
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Dear Readers of Below the Bible Belt —

Thank you for joining me for this ongoing journey! Daniel’s done, Ezra’s next -starting tomorrow.

This dramatic text detailing the Return to Zion saga, some 2,500 years, ago invites us to ask important questions about what that moment and this movement means for us now — how inherited Jewish legacies, political patterns and some of our most pressing modern problems - may have started at that time, and in this text.

Reading Ezra during this difficult time of sorrow and ongoing war, and during this week in which Israel marks 77 years is yet another auspicious convergence that calls for careful reading, reckoning and review, big questions and deep conversations.

I invite you to join me tomorrow, Monday April 28th at 5pm ET for a Zoom Conversation to Welcome Ezra and begin this important and timely literary journey - together.

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Wishing us all sacred and meaningful days of healing and hope, justice and peace, for all.

Welcome, Ezra and co.

Amichai

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