Blintzes, Sinai, Revelation: The Concrete Implications of a Custom ---- Through a nuanced examination of interrelated minhagim, Nachman Levine shows how the custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, on Shavuot reenacts a collective initiation into Torah Study, allowing us to reexperience Revelation. ---- Nachman Levine is a Fellow at the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Detroit Kollel Mechanchim. He has published on Tanach and Midrash and Agadah in Hakirah, Mekhilta, Megadim, Netuim, Beit Mikra, The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Bar-Ilan Jewish Studies Internet Journal, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal of Northwestern Semitic Languages, Journal of Jewish Studies, Michlol, The Journal for the Study of Judaism, Hebrew Studies, and Jewish Action Magazine. He can be reached at nachman.levine@gmail.com. (fb)

Manna, Mitzvot, and Meaning ---- What are the roles of meaning and obedience in our acceptance of the Torah? Ned Krasnopolsky explores this question through the manna narrative predeeding matan Torah. ---- Ned Krasnopolsky is a member of the faculty at SAR High School and Machon Siach. A 2025 Sacks Research Scholar at the Yeshiva University Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, his research focuses on the relationship between law and narrative in biblical commentary. https://thelehrhaus.com/holidays/manna-mitzvot-and-meaning/ (fb)