When someone makes a gift from his deathbed, no formal act of acquisition is necessary for the gift to be acquired by its recipient. Plus, a discussion of the biblical sources of deathbed gifts – Hezekiah or Achitophel, with Achitophel’s 3 points of advice for his children. Also, let’s talk about the weather – and its implications for crops, as they follow from the Jewish holidays. Where the smoke from the Temple blowing one direction or another carried with it predictions about the upcoming season.
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