... that of "Takkanah" or rabbinical law designed to maintain Jewish traditions. They are created when the old ones were no longer applicable or tolerable during a state of duress, such as exile or slavery, or to update when times have changed so much as to render a mitzvoth obsolete. These final portions of Jewish law are the "minhag" or religious customs that evolved ... strict forge in which their race was created. As an often-outcast minority, the one thread that connected the group was the ideal of a shared religion. When faced with separation, exile or slavery, as is often detailed in...

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... during the Holocaust, right from the get-go. The entire structure of the museum, which was designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, is made of grey concrete, intended as a metaphor reflecting a time in history when all societal lines defining right and wrong – moral, political and religious - were blurred, a "grey area" corresponding to the grey concrete. When you ... ...

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