saga launched fourteen centuries earlier by these pseudo-mythological tannaitic giants. RaMaK's
fellowship would now take note of ruined synagogues or ancient villages wherein saintly
tannaitic figures had once studied and lived; maneuver the spirited residues of their hidden caves
or engage their grave-markers in erotic ecstasy; study their paths, recite their very teachings and
explore the same riverbeds, hills, trees and rocks. In …