The Miracles Within: Parshat Beshalach
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- Feb 14
- 6 min
Parashat Bo: Memory- Bound
" וְהִ גַּדְ תָּ לְ בִ נְָך, בַּ ּיֹום הַּ הּוא לֵאמ ר: בַּ עֲבּור זֶה, עָּ שָּ ה ה" לִ י, בְ צֵאתִ י, מִ מִ צְ רָּ יִם. ט וְהָּ יָּה לְ...
- Feb 20, 2019
- 1 min
On the Shattering of the Tablets and the Rebuilding of Self
For a printable PDF please click here: parshat Ki Tissa broken tablets 5779 But the message of the Divine is other It’s liberating and...
- Jan 16, 2019
- 5 min
Parshat Beshalach, On Holistic Healing and Release from the Bondage of Dogmatic Religion
For a printable PDF please click here:parshat beshalach 5779 As humans we are inclined towards binary methods of seeing the world....
- Nov 22, 2018
- 4 min
The Last Kaddish
THE LAST KADDISH This shabbat I will say the last kaddish for my father ז”ל. I will stand as I have now hundreds of times and repeat the...
- Nov 8, 2018
- 3 min
Parshat Toldot: ‘הנני Hinneni’ – On Identity Development in an Instant World
I share a short thought from a very long blog with slight reluctance. We live in a world where memes and twitters are about the length...
- Oct 18, 2018
- 2 min
Lecha Lecha – Altneuland (Herzl’s ‘Old New land’) – A musing on Avraham’s journey
Lecha Lecha – Altneuland (Herzl’s ‘Old New land’) – A musing on Avraham’s journey These words by T.S .Elliot in Little Gidding echo the...
- Aug 12, 2018
- 2 min
A Thought for Rosh Chodesh Ellul 5778
It always bothered me that the whole of Ellul and the entire yom kippur davening was about penitence, shame, guilt and contrition. Still...
- Jun 21, 2018
- 11 min
PARSHAT CHUKAT: THE SOUND OF SILENCE
For a printable PDF version please click here: parshat chukat – The sound of Silence This article is in memory of אלכסנדר בן אלעזר and in...
- Feb 26, 2018
- 17 min
Hearing God in a Postmodern World: Purim as a celebration of community and textual interpretation
For a printable PDF click here:Purim – on Hearing God in a Postmodern world ליעילוי נשמת אלכסנדר בן אלעזר – In loving memory of אבי מורי...
- Dec 1, 2017
- 6 min
PARSHAT VAYISHLACH – A MESSAGE FOR THE POSTMODERN AGE?
For a printable PDF version click here: parshat vayishlach 5778 edited We are privileged to live in unprecedented times. Never before in...
- Jan 26, 2017
- 11 min
Parshat Vaera Leadership and the Road to Greatness
For a Printable PDF please click here:parshat-vaera-the-road-to-greatness-5777 Moshe’s leadership is the quintessential test of character...
- Nov 10, 2016
- 12 min
Parshat Lech-lecha: On Covenant, Crisis and Commitment
For a printable PDF version please click here:parshat-lech-lecha-5777 לזכות רפואה שלימה לאימי מורתי מינדל ליבא בת פיגא פרל בתוך שאר חולי...
- Feb 18, 2015
- 13 min
According to the effort is the reward – Parshat Terumah 5775
For a printable PDF version click here:Parshat Terumah 5775 Ben Bag Bag would say: Delve and delve into it, for all is in it; see with...
- Feb 11, 2015
- 9 min
Between Law and Revelation, Transcendence and Immanence – Parshat Mishpatim 5775
Parshat Mishpatim 5775 “וְכָל-הָעָם רֹאִים אֶת-הַקּוֹלֹת וְאֶת-הַלַּפִּידִם, וְאֵת קוֹל הַשֹּׁפָר, וְאֶת-הָהָר, עָשֵׁן; וַיַּרְא הָעָם...
- Feb 2, 2015
- 13 min
Revealing the difference of the ‘Other’ – Parshat Yitro 5775
For a printable PDF version click here:Parshat Yitro – 5775 A Sign of the Times: As I wrote a few weeks ago the events over the last...
- Jan 15, 2015
- 10 min
On Faith, Doubt and Fundamentalism – Parshat Vaera 5775
For a printable PDF please click here: Pasrhat Vaera 5775 Introduction: Events of the past week Though we have been saying it for years,...
- Jan 26, 2014
- 14 min
An Epiphany of love – Parshat Yitro 5774
To Read the printable PDF click here:Yitro-An Epiphany of love The Significance of Revelation? When I taught at a school in London many...
- Jan 26, 2014
- 11 min
A Taste of Independence – Parshat Beshalach 5774
A Taste of Independence Beshalach 5774 Dependence to Independence: Donald Winnicot, the renowned British paediatrician and psychoanalyst,...
- Jan 26, 2014
- 9 min
Memory – Bound – Parshat Bo – 5774
” וְהִגַּדְתָּ לְבִנְךָ, בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא לֵאמֹר: בַּעֲבוּר זֶה, עָשָׂה ה” לִי, בְּצֵאתִי, מִמִּצְרָיִם. ט וְהָיָה לְךָ לְאוֹת...
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