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The Lost Scent of the Temple: Incense in Jewish Tradition
Most people assume incense was always a pagan borrowing that Judaism eventually outgrew. The reality is nearly the opposite — for roughly a thousand years, the ketoret incense ritual was as central to Israelite worship as animal sacrifice, possibly more so. This episode traces the full arc: from the detailed recipe in Exodus and the terrifying Yom Kippur entry into the Holy of Holies, through the House of Avtinas trade secrets and vendor lock-in, to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE that ended the ritual overnight. We explore how the rabbis textualized the incense — replacing a…
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