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Another childhood ritual, meant to bring young boys into Torah study, may also have been influenced by Christianity: the boy was given honey cakes inscribed with Bible verses, symbolically acting out Ezekiel 3:3 ('it was as sweet as honey in my mouth'). The historian Ivan Marcus has proposed that the custom may have been a Jewish reworking of the Church's central liturgical mystery, the Eucharist.

References

1. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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