Summoning God https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/09/summoning-god/

September 25, 2013 | Zev Farber
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Are the seven hoshanot—ritual circuits of the synagogue—practiced today, on Hoshana Rabbah, an echo of the biblical conquest of Jericho?

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