BRIT MILAH As I write, I am in the midst of preparations for Shabbat services and the upcoming BRIT celebration for our new baby. It is now close to midnight on Thursday and I decided to pause, sit in front of the computer and share with you why these days of preparations for the BRIT …
Gladly I added Victoria’s analysis to chapter 55. A different point of view from an English literature professor. Below the analysis you can find the historical background. Last, there are few short comments i remember we brought up in the study. Enjoy ! — Psalm 55 – Analysis Three images dominate the poem: the VOICE of the …
Shalom Leyners, For your convenience: The tutorial below is a recording of the Te’amim (Torah reading notes) we will practice – both the symbols, melody and finger-gesture-signs. Please notice, that under the Youtube tutorial of the Leyning notes, there is an additional link – it is a ‘friendly printable version’ of of the learning sheets …
below the recording of the song (Psalm 51:12) you’ll find a summary of our discussion, the Chapter itself and the story behind the Psalm that I googled out from some website (didn’t check it, so if you find it not a proper translation.. please tell me) The subject is Teshuva, remorse and the principles of …
“And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.” (Genesis 3,8) And that was the end of a promising beginning. On the onset of Genesis, at the beginning of the first book of Moses, there …
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Below the tutorial I added a ‘Printable file’ for your convenience. – Right click on the picture –> then choose ‘print’
As we conversed in the last session, the verse of Psalm 37:25 is a very hard one to understand. If we look around us, we see all the time righteous people whom are ‘forsaken’, ‘begging for bread’. We suggested a different way to read the verse (with accordance to the one that follows – Psalm …
Shalom Chaverim, Please print out the following resources before the study. Limud Pore 🙂 1) B’reshit 1:29- Initially what we’re supposed to eat. “And God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be …
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Summary for the first verse (psalm 37 1), please see below the video: לְדָוִד אַל תִּתְחַר בַּמְּרֵעִים אַל תְּקַנֵּא בְּעֹשֵׂי עַוְלָה Of David. Do not compete with the evildoers; do not envy those who commit injustice (Psalm 37:1) We started the study by posing the question: Why not compete (and maybe also defeat..) the evil-dowers? …
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The source of the name Kristallnacht, is the failure of the world to prevent the worst crime in history that man ever committed against his fellow man. Let me explain: During the night between the 9th and the 10th of November 1938, a so called ‘spontaneous’ pogrom started in the streets of Germany. During this …
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