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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Shabbat Shira, Shabbat Shalom
When people would approach Abraham Joshua Heschel and ask, how to start “doing more Jewish”, he would say, light Shabbat candles. This was just one the moving anecdotes shared by his daughter, Susana Heschel, a professor of Jewish Studies in … Continue reading
Posted in סיפורים קצרים, פרשת השבוע לחילוני האדוק
Tagged beshalach, bread, chamin, Heschel, kabala, manna, shabbat, shabbat shira, Torah, Torah portion
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In Darkness and in Light
It’s told about king Solomon that when he was a young boy, his teacher said to him,’I’ll give you an apple if you tell me where is G-d’, ‘and little king Solomon, who already was the wisest of all people, … Continue reading
Posted in life and some, shabbat shalom, פרשת השבוע לחילוני האדוק
Tagged darkness, fear, G-d, king Solomon, Moses, pharaoh, Torah portion
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Why Moses?
Maybe it’s the Torah’s way of warning us how easy it is to go “down”, for within just a few verses, life has changed very dramatically! No longer in the Land of Israel, we’re living in Egypt; no longer a … Continue reading
Posted in life and some, shabbat shalom, פרשת השבוע לחילוני האדוק
Tagged burning bush, egypt, exodus, Moses, pharaoh, slavery, Torah
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Had my father been alive… (גם בעברית, אחרי התמונות)
Had my father been alive, today would have been his 95th birthday. Because of the magic of the calendar (95 being 19X5), this is both his Gregorian and Hebrew day: January 6th, the full moon of the month of Tevet. … Continue reading
Posted in life and some, סיפורים קצרים
Tagged 1960's, ALS, birthdays, Haifa, Israel, Life, Oil Refinery, parents, relationship, yahrzeit
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Lessons from the first expat, Joseph Jacob-son
Joseph is the first expat. Different from his great-grandpa Abraham, who was born in the diaspora and made aliya; different from his father Jacob who went to exile for a few years, got himself together, and actually came back, Joseph … Continue reading
Posted in life and some, shabbat shalom, פרשת השבוע לחילוני האדוק
Tagged blessing of efrayim & menashe, burial, expats, Genesis, jacob, joseph
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