Monthly Archives: May 2016

Shabbat La’Hashem

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

Who’s in charge of holiness (k’dusha) in the world? G-d or people? In this week’s reading, we are introduced to the Shmita, the sabbatical year. The Torah Sabbatical year is not about crop rotation. It’s about the land having its … Continue reading →

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2nd Chances? On pesach sheni & my father’s yahrzeit

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

If you google “Pesach Sheni” (literally – 2nd Passover) you’ll find beautiful commentaries about “it’s never too late”, and yet, is it? Pesach Sheni addresses people who missed the 1st Pesach. When it was time to bring the Pascal offering, … Continue reading →

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Hand in Hand, and more

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

Shul can be a very relaxing, even soporific experience and so it happened, once upon a time, that Joe-Shmo was a little sleepy during the Torah reading. He woke up just to hear the reader chant the words: “And you … Continue reading →

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Love and Boundaries

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

We tend to think of “love your neighbor as yourself” as a Biblical commandment that “makes sense”, while, for example, that of “sha’atnez”, the prohibition to mix wool and linen in the same garment, as a “chok”, a law which … Continue reading →

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אך נזכור את כולם – We Remember. Yom Hazikaron.

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

As kids we were taught early on to give up our seat on public bus for an older person, and my mom told us to do just that. But, as the story goes, my brother, about four or five years … Continue reading →

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Achrei Mot Janusz Korczak – something for the Shabbat after Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

When my students “stretch my limits”, I think of Janusz Korczak (pronounced – Yanush Kor’chak). Up until I was in my teens or so, Korczak was just a small street, not too far from my home in the Haifa neighborhood … Continue reading →

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