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So the word “abracadabra,” which is something we associate with magic, right? My son says it as he does tricks in our living room. It’s actually Hebrew/Aramaic—avra kehdabra—which means, “I will create as I speak,” or “I create with the word.” It goes back to this story of Genesis, this idea that God spoke the world into existence, that the w…
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