The 18th of Elul was once a Hebrew festival marking the day Shimon HaTarsi achieved full independence for Judea after a brutal guerrilla war spanning nearly three decades.
Bikkurim free us from limiting our identities to material wealth or status while allowing us to measure ourselves and our work according to our impact on the collective society at large.
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