[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/pinchas-6/” ] Alfred Hitchcock, when asked how to draw the viewers’ attention, replied: “A film should start with an earthquake and be followed by rising tension”. This week’s Parashat Pinchas continues the story which draws our attention by continuously building tension. Please imagine that you’re watching a film based on it. Its first […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/parasza-pinchas/” ] If I were to ask the average Jew, anywhere in the world , what is the most important verse in the Torah, they would probably answer “Shema Yisrael” or maybe one of the Ten Commandments or “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” from Leviticus. All are good choices. In fact, there is […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/rytual-akceptacji-niepewnosci/” ] This week’s Parashat Chukat starts with a description of a ceremony called Para Aduma, the ritual of offering a red heifer. This ritual was supposed to enable people who touched a corpse or stayed with it in one room to purify themselves from ritual impurity. This purification took place through the […]

The rebellion that always fails. Thoughts on parashat Korach.

This week’s Torah portion includes one of those not entirely clear stories, which are typically difficult to translate into modern language and modern mentality – the story of Korach and his dissent:

Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — descendants of[…]