Monthly Archives: October 2023

Lech Lecha… for this place is so moving….

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

….לך-לך… והיה ברכה Avram our father comes from a Zionist family. The journey to the Land of Israel had already begun by his father, Terah, when the situation in Ur of the Chaldeans became unbearable: “… Terah took his son … Continue reading →

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Noah & the Golden Pages

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

פרשת נח – תשפד: דפי זהב There was once a not-so-funny joke about a man who liked to read the Golden (Yellow) Pages. ‘What kind of book is this’, asked his bewildered friend, there is no plot’! ‘Yes, replied the … Continue reading →

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Beresheet, starting again…

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

….בראשית – שוב להתחיל מהתחלה The first Torah portion in the Book of Genesis a wonderful and profoundly deep section. True, this is the case with all the Torah portions, and yet… it begins, as it were, a little naive: … Continue reading →

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(my incomplete list of) things to do and not do…. Oct 2023

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

דברים לעשות ולא לעשות (רשימה בהתהוות)… – תשרי, תשפד What is said here assumes one has at home – food, water, a charged phone / charger, candles, matches / lighter, blankets, first-aide, and anything else needed for one’s basic physical … Continue reading →

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And this is The Blessing…. וזאת הברכה…

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Michal Kohane מיכל כהנא

וזאת הברכה… We have come to “Ve’zot Habracha” – and this is The blessing”, the last Torah portion; a portion, that on one hand, does not have its own Shabbat, because it is recited on Simchat-Torah, and on the other … Continue reading →

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