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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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
Read moreY multiplicaré tu descendencia como las estrellas en el firmamento! Queres saber como se hizo posible? Lee sobre la transicion de sociedad patriarcal a pueblo. Y hubo un día en el que las cosas cambiaron. Detrás quedaron los tiempos en los que creímos que la bendición era solo para uno de nuestros niños. No echamos más chicos de la casa y empezamos
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“I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky” Would you like to know how it really happened!? Read Parashat Vayechi, last in the book of Genesis and learn about our transformation from a Patriarchal society into the People of Israel. There came a time when things changed. Behind were the days when we believed that the
Read moreעסוק בלא לצאת פרייר? רוצה להצליח? לא מרוצה ממה שיש לך? במקרא תוכל למצוא מודל מצוין להצלחה, שלא מסתכם בחזון הנכון אלא בגישה שלמה. זה לא סוד שהרבה פעמים העיסוק התמידי במה שחסר לא מאפשר לנו לעסוק במה שיש ובכך אנו מפספסים את הבסיס האלמנטרי הדרוש על מנת לצבור. אך איך זה מתקשר עם פרשת השבוע? פרשת ויגש ,המתחילה בבראשית מ”ד
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Occupied with not being the loser? Want to succeed? Unsatisfied with what you have? In the Bible you can find an excellent model of success, which does not stop at the idea of a vision; it is beyond that – a way to approach life. Too often being constantly occupied with the things we don’t have doesn’t allow us to deal
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Can you say out loud: “SEX”? For somehow many people feel uncomfortable when we say this word. But for Torah it’s a well-known idea. Unfortunately, we don’t speak that much about it… In Parashat “Vayeshev” we read the story of Yehuda and Tamar. Yehuda, Jacob’s son, got married and had 3 kids: Er, Onan and Shelah. Yehuda arranged for Er
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Parashat V’yishlach A Short reflection… Jacob and Esau are about to meet again and this is what Jacob has in mind: ” Now deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him” (Gen 32:12). Of course he is afraid, they separated 20 years ago following a terrible conflict involving anger, anguish
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