Torah has this great quality of being something you can read over and over again, yet every year you find how your reading changes as your own life-story develops…. This week I was reading Parashat Yitro and all of a sudden it came to my awareness that Moshe’s family is being brought to him (Exodus 18:2-5). And for the first time
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Meeting With Non – Jews Strengthens Judaism “Only after Moses listens to his father in law and absorbs his feedback and criticism, de-centralization is established, and the People of Israel can make the step that enabled them to grow and come to their constitutive event as a nation – the receiving of the 10 commandments at Mt. Sinai.” Parashat Jethro
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Overworked? Got no time for friends or family? Take a tip from Yitro. In this week’s G-dcast, Leah Jones shares with us some wisdom from Moses’s non-Jewish father-in-law who pretty much changes the course of Jewish history.
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My father was a god and did not know it. He gave me The Ten Commandments neither in thunder nor in furry; neither in fire nor in cloud But rather in gentleness and love. And he added caresses and kind words and he added “I beg You,” and “please.” And he sang “keep” and “remember” the Shabbat In a single melody
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Cual es la escencia de Tu’Bshvat segun los Jasidim!? La nostalgia por la tierra de Israel! Tu B’shvat es tambien un simbolo del movimiento Sionista recordando los tiempos en los que trabajabamos la tierra y construiamos un pais ……. Y Que dice Maria Elena Walsh? “Cuando voy a dormir cierro los ojos y sueno con el olor de un pais florecido para mi!” Jag Sameach
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What are you doing for the next generations? A Tale for Tu B’shvat Tu B’shvat is the Jewish birthday of the trees. Straight from the Talmud (the living encyclopedia of Jewish law), G‑dcast brings you two stories about Honi the Circle Maker! Now get out there and hug a tree. SOURCE TEXT : Mishna Taanit 3:8 Talmud Taanit 23a
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Exodus 15 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spoke, saying, “I will sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I
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Miriam’s Song Mi Chamocha
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Please! Take a loot at the incredible video – midrash of http://www.g-dcast.com/ What do you think?
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Po Ve Sham 