During the last ten years I met many many friends and colleagues struggling with this, emotionally flooded. Beautiful, brilliant and talented people becoming closed, passing hard times. And most of them not asking for help and therefore not receiving what is required in order to continue, to get over it. One of the things which worry me the most is the
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The capability to look with love and empathy and to grant the gift of a good word, a hug, a thought, your presence. Parashat Naso is the longest Parasha in the Torah, 176 verses! It continues to list details regarding enrollment in what later will become the Israeli army (not that of the nowadays state). To this end it deals with
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(This portion belongs to last week’s reading, my apologies for the late publishing) Making non-physical or non-material connections challenges intrinsically our condition as simple human beings , but meaning in life can be found only by assuming the imperative necessity of being reflective beings. The missassumption of this challenge means sentencing our souls to be separated from our existence. In the last Torah
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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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Moses and the Children of Israel have just come out of one of the most bizarre events in their lives. On the one hand, they experienced extreme fear being chased by the Egyptian army, one of the strongest armies in the world, and on the other hand they faced the dramatic miracle of the splitting of the Red
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If you want to learn about the essence of the Jewish People you should consider reading Parashat Bo. Two characteristics in defining something can be: 1- Limits – What is inside and what is outside! 2- How do you connect it with “others”? In this Torah portion we learn about the mitzvah (the commandment) of Mezuzah, which
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What do you think when you see these images? Sometimes we struggle to understand why to remove from our Seder Cup (Passover dinner) a drop of wine for each plague….Chaza’l our sages explain that one cannot be completely joyous when some of God’s creatures had to suffer. We see the following images of destruction and pain and remain wondering If only
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Po Ve Sham 