Life without Teshuva is like being condemned to dwell in Plato’s allegorical Cave… It is to perceive the world under a mechanism that makes me believe that the shadows and echoes projected on the wall of my ego they are the reality. The month of Elul reminds me that sometimes all I can see is that wall; reflections but not
Read moreSo, let’s start by thinking about the methodology and the idea behind the Seder. This, the seder, night will be a very interesting collage and representation of our fantasies as well as our way of life, and by that I mean ethics and values and finally who we want to be, our vision and our dreams. If you look at
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Choosing a topic for a D’var Torah wasn’t an easy task this week. This week we read Parashat Tzav, which this year, because it’s a leap year, falls in the month of Adar, so tomorrow in addition to Parashat Tzav we will read Parashat Parah. This week we all have in mind the tragedy and the horror that filled
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You came to me, to open my eyes. To me your body was a view, A window and a mirror. You came as night comes to the owl To show him, in the darkness, all things. And I learned: There’s a name For each eyelash and fingernail, And for every hair on the exposed flesh. And the scent
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Think about it! The Torah was delivered on Mount Sinai at the time in the midst of our walking in the desert. This means that if you compare it with milk or with the “food for our souls” as our Sages z”l did, this delivery would be closer to the idea of “Take away” than to sitting in your place
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Experiences of an Immigrant who Learned to be a Mourner I was born and raised in Argentina. From the first years of my adolescence I participated in the ceremonies of Yom Ha’azmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). I remember these activities at the headquarters of Hacoaj, as well as the national ones organized by the juvenile Zionist movement in different areas in
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Jewish Resistance During The Shoa Resistance is. . To smuggle a loaf of bread – was to resist. To teach in secret – was to resist. To gather information and distribute an underground newsletter – was to resist. To cry out warning and shatter illusions – was to resist. To rescue a Torah scroll – was to resist. To forge
Read morePor un Judaismo con diversidad cultural! Que mensajes tenes grabados en la cabeza? A que cosas renunciaste, quizás te faltan, y no sabes donde las dejaste? Puede ser que te estés por perder el Seder? Si, puede ser, porque te sentís culpable!!! Que!!!??? Es muy común en la educación y en la educación judía en lo particular el uso y
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Which messages do you have graven in your mind? What things have you renounced, perhaps you miss, perhaps you’re not sure where you left? Could your Jewish identity be one of those things? Are you possibly about to lose the Passover Seder? If we could stop time for a second, I’d love to think with you about identity! It is
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There is no doubt that the Exodus has a folklorical meaning. The Exodus is an ethos of our identity and we remember it routinely in our prayers and blessings as a seminal event in our consolidation as the People of Israel. However in Passover we have the opportunity to deepen in the Exodus and this is also probably the
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Po Ve Sham 