[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/zydowska-rodzina-na-skraju-rozpadu/” ]Angels climbing up and down the ladder that symbolise Jacob’s special connection to the Eternal. Jacob being tricked into marrying Leah instead of his beloved Rachel. The births of eleven out of twelve sons of Jacob. The tragedy of Jacob’s only (known) daughter, Dinah. These are the things that come to our […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/studnie-i-stadiony/” ] If there ever was a ‘Patriarch Cup’ of popularity among Abraham, Isaac, Jakob and Joseph, four most prominent male characters in the book of Genesis, Isaac would be bound to land in fourth place. Sounds controversial? Let’s consider it for a moment. When we think about other patriarchs, we immediately remember […]

Thoughts on Parashat Vayera

A lot of our political and cultural debate today pertains to societal norms. However, I believe that, in our times, there is a common confusion about the nature and purpose of societal norms. Therefore, I need to make some statements that sound quite obvious for many of us: the societal norms have not been created to indulge the individuals; they have been always to serve the society, as a whole, to facilitate its survival, reproduction, demographic and cultural growth as[…]

Thoughts on Parashat Lech Lecha

This week’s Torah begins with God’s act of choosing Abram as the Divine servant:

יהוה said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.[…]