Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities Can You

This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities, and other bits of information that have accumulated over the centuries. This book gathers these curiosities and presents them thematically for the reader's pleasure.

Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs is the spiritual leader of the Temple Sholom in Bridgewater, New Jersey

Introduction	p. vii
Jewish Holidays	p. 1
Rosh Hashana	p. 2
Omens	p. 2
Miscellany	p. 3
Yom Kippur	p. 6
Sukkot	p. 11
Hanukkah	p. 16
Purim	p. 24
Passover	p. 31
Shavuot	p. 40
Medicine	p. 49
Unusual Superstitions	p. 61
Judaism and the Occult	p. 71
Who's Who of Demons	p. 74
The Evil Eye	p. 78
Oddities of Dreams and Dream Interpretation	p. 83
Fantastic Jewish Beasts	p. 90
Unusual Prayers and Prayer Oddities	p. 96
Bible Curiosities	p. 104
Amazing Miracles	p. 116
Other Miraculous Signs of God	p. 120
Biblical Miracle Stories of Elijah	p. 122
Biblical Miracle Stories of Elisha	p. 127
Miracle Stories in Rabbinic Writings	p. 131
Education	p. 142
Unusual "Onlys"	p. 145
Miscellaneous Oddities	p. 148
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