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Blue Skies & White Ballons – Yom Kippur 5785
(EN below) שמים כחולים ובלונים לבנים – יום הכיפורים, תשפה שמים כחולים ובלונים לבנים. הספקתי לצלם תמונה מהירה בדרך הביתה, באמצע האזעקה. שמים כחולים ובלונים לבנים. וקבוצת אנשים מקרית תופסת מחסה מתחת לגשר: “וואו, זה היה קרוב”, אומר אחד לצלילם … Continue reading
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Tagged day-of-atonement, faith, Israel, rosh-hashanah, yom-kippur
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40 hours in “Otef Aza”: a Shabbat on the edge…
(English below) ארבעים שעות בעוטף עזה הרמז הראשון לכך שאני מתקרבת היא תחנת דלק קטנה מצפון לאשקלון. אפשר לעזור? שואלת אותי בנימוס וחיוך, מישהי שמנהלת את המקום לבדה ונראית כאילו רק סיימה תיכון. יש מים? לקנות בקבוק? אני שואלת, מבהירה. … Continue reading
Ki Tetze: returning a lost object: at any price?
(English below) כי תצא ומצוות השבת אבדה פרשת השבוע, “כי תצא” מובילה עם הכי הרבה מצוות שיש לנו בפרשה אחת – 74 מתוך 613 – והן נוגעות לכל היבט בחיים. ראשיתן – ביציאה של האדם, בעיקר מעצמו אל העולם. היציאה … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, deuteronomy, hebrew, Israel, jewish, judaism, ki tetze, returning-a-lost-object
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Where’s Jerusalem in the Torah? – or – “Inquire & go there…” (the Torah portion of Re’e)
פרשת “ראה”: ירושלים מן התורה מנין? או “תִדְרְשׁ֖וּ וּבָ֥אתָ שָֽׁמָּה” How many times is Jerusalem mentioned in this name – Yerushalayim – in the Torah? We would think countless times. After all, we’re talking about the Holy City in the … Continue reading
Because she acted out of love, the Holy One gave her from love… Sh’lach lecha (plus)…
“על שעשתה מאהבה נתן לה המקום מאהבה”… פרשת שלח לך (והפטרתה) In our tradition there are heroes and heroines who live in our consciousness by their name and their title together: Moshe – rabenu – our teacher. Abraham – avinu … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, book of numbers, Israel, jericho, rahav, spies, Torah, Torah portion
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Stand for a minute, I need to count you! The Torah portion of Bamidbar
תעמדו רגע! אני צריך לספור אתכם! פרשת במדבר When you go on a field trip with 40 teenagers, what is the thing you do most often? Yes, you tell them to come, go, don’t forget, listen, sit, stand, move forward, … Continue reading
The gifts of Jerusalem
לכבוד יום ירושלים תשפ”ד – המתנות של ירושלים Yom Yerushalayim coming up on Wednesday this week, “coincidentally” falls on the 28th of the Hebrew month of Iyar. We could say, that this is due to historical reasons: During the Six Day … Continue reading
Be Holy! the Torah portion of Kedoshim
פרשת “קדושים תהיו”! In the month of Iyar – my father died, and in the month of Iyar – my granddaughter was born. A terrible tragedy, and an immense joy cohabit side by side. How to contain both? The answer, … Continue reading
Beresheet, starting again…
….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
On memory & celebration, and an invite to see and heal
When the 8th day of Pesach fell on Shabbat, something happened: the Torah reading in Israel, where there is no 8th day, proceeded to the Torah portions in Leviticus, while those of us in “chutz-la’aretz” stayed one more day with … Continue reading
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Tagged celebration, Israel, leprosy, Leviticus, memory, metzora, seeing, yom haatzmaut, yom hashoa, yom hazikaron
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Torah & more... תורה ועוד 