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18 Adar II 5784
Parashat Tzav
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Kaplan Quote of the Week

Weekly Quote from Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, z"l (1881-1983)
Last Sabbath a week ago (March 18) I inaugurated the ceremony of the Bat Mitzvah at the S.A.J. Meeting House (41 West 86 St.) about which more details later [Ed. note: Kaplan, in fact, provided no further details in his diary]. My daughter Judith was the first one to have her Bat Mitzvah celebrated there.

From Communings of the Spirit, Vol. I, page 159, Tuesday, March 28, 1922; used with permission.

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