Dr. Rabbi Michael C. Hilton is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester; Scholar in Residence at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London; and Lehrhaus Tutor in Ancient Greek, Leo Baeck College London. He is the author of The Gospels and Rabbinic Judaism: A Study Guide (with Father Gordian Marshall OP); of The Christian Effect on Jewish Life; and of Bar Mitzvah: A History. His current research is on the historical impact of Islam on Judaism over the centuries.
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On Shavuot night, sometime in the 1530s, R. Joseph Karo and R. Shlomo Alkabetz hold an all-night study session, reciting a selection of biblical passages, followed by Mishnah and kabbalah. At exactly midnight, the voice of a divine being speaks through Karo, thanking the scholars for raising her from the dirt through their sleepless Torah study, and admonishes them not to be materialistic, and instead, to move to Israel.
On Shavuot night, sometime in the 1530s, R. Joseph Karo and R. Shlomo Alkabetz hold an all-night study session, reciting a selection of biblical passages, followed by Mishnah and kabbalah. At exactly midnight, the voice of a divine being speaks through Karo, thanking the scholars for raising her from the dirt through their sleepless Torah study, and admonishes them not to be materialistic, and instead, to move to Israel.
