January 18, 2015 Nine members of Beit Warszawa congregation came to the Baha’i center to meet people from the Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian and Muslim communities in Warsaw. The theme was : Overcoming Prejudice and Acknowledging Similarities. A representative from each group addressed the audience. Rabbi Gil Nativ read the Prayer for Peace by Rabbi Nachman […]
BeShalach 5775
30th January, 2015/10 Shvat 5775 Shirat HaYam –‘Song of the Sea’ or ‘Song on the Sea’ is one of the most beautiful and one of the most ancient pieces of Hebrew Poetry. I recall Prof. Moshe Greenberg saying that the deliverance of our ancestors from the mighty Egyptian Empire was such an incredible event, that […]
VaYechi – 5775
What made Judah the “Lion-King” of his brothers? 2nd January 2015/11 Tevet 5775 In the last four ‘parashot’ (pl. of parasha=portions) of Genesis, Joseph emerges as the most talented among the twelve sons of Jacob, and the one whose meteoric rise to power in Egypt eventually changes the entire history of our people. However, parallel […]
VaYigash – 5775
Shabbat 26-27 December, 2014 Pharoe, impressed by the old semitic shepherd standing in front of him asks: How many are the years of your life [Gen.47:8]? However, Jacob replies using a different noun: “The years of my sojourn (=meguray) are thirty and a hundred years… [ibid:9] why ‘my sojourn’ and not ‘my life’? The simplest, […]
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