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Human Being Rise up! A Beautiful Song and Inspirational Words in Parashat V’yigash

In times of challenge lift up your Humanity, read and hear the very inspirational words of the Rav Kook and the Melody of Abigail Uziel Perform by Kolot Rabim Human Being Rise Up! Rise up, for you have the power. You have wings of the spirit, wings of powerful eagles.  Do not deny them, or they will deny you. Seek

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Metamorphosis or development? Depends on how close we look… Parashat Miketz

The Torah Potion “Miketz” symbolically starts with Joseph thrown in the dungeon, ending with him as ruler over all the land of Egypt. How did this happen? Did Joseph go though some metamorphosis? To answer this, we can start by asking why he was thrown there in the first place. Joseph arrived at the prison eventually as a result of

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Time to turn on the lights and “like” PoveSham, Chag Sameach!

Po Ve Sham – Here and There  “But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find Him” (Deut. 4:29) Each one of us, out of his own position, seeks a life with meaning, with layers of depth and sacredness. Judaism deals with making meaning available, it provides us with sort of “binoculars” through which we can look

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Hanukkah Rocks! PoveSham brings you the top 9 songs!

Al Hanisim  – Udi davidi     Mi Yemalel – Craig Taubman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUUjmn_Wk0       Nerotai Haze’irim – Ruchama Raz       Banu Hoshech Legaresh! – Oren Tzur and Nadav Bachar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjL3z8yXmc       Hanukkah Song – Adam Sandler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sf5yqZX-k       Ner Li + Lichvod Ha-Hanukkah – From Parpar Nechmad… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5x2jUUthU       Sevivon

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A Jewish and Democratic Israel! – Parashat Vayishlach: “Put away the strange Gods”

Sometimes it feels like Torah is knocking on the door of our reality! This week we read “Parashat Vayishlach”,Genesis 32:4 to 36:43, which interestingly contains an important message to our politicians and people! One of the stories in our Torah portions is “Maase Shechem”. It is narrated that Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land when the President

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Starting to taste from parashat “Vayishlach” Katonti, Jacob’s prayer, Torah’s words with the beutiful music and voice of Yonatan Razel

 “I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. Save me, I pray….” (Gen 32:10-11)     About the Word Katonti: Reading Genesis 32:11, “I am too small (קָטֹנְתִּי, katonti) for all the mercies, and of all the

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Parashat Vayetze: I GOT IT MOMENTS!

    What differentiates a great idea from a possible reality? Read how and why  the emblematic should find you with your feet on the ground!  This week we read Parashat “Vayetze”, one of the richest portions in the whole Torah. The most famous scene in the portion, which was artistically drawn probably hundreds of times, is “Jacob’s ladder”.  At the

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