I experienced a physical sensation of calming love from the Aramaic words, later explained by Dr. Douglas-Klotz in a 2012 YouTube interview when he talked about the ancient practice of Jesus’s day.

With a dish of black-eyed peas ("rubia" or "lubia" in Aramaic, from the same root word as "to increase"), we offer a blessing to increase our merits. (See the blessings for each food at wapo.st ...

"It was a play on words," she says ... Peas, called ruviah in Aramaic, are eaten after a blessing, asking that our good deeds will multiply. Ruviah itself means numerous, and the Hebrew verb ...

I experienced a physical sensation of calming love from the Aramaic words, later explained by Dr. Douglas-Klotz in a 2012 YouTube interview when he talked about the ancient practice of Jesus’s day.