[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/chaje-sara/” ] For Beit Warszawa, 22nd. November 2019 – This sidra has a particularly personal message for me at present, as it commences with the death of an elderly matriarch and the preparations that need to be made for her burial – and my own mother is approaching her own end, slowly and […]

Thoughts on Parashat Vayera. [maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/wypowiadac-otwarcie-swoje-poglady-czy-nie/” ] The Torah portion of this week contains only great and famous stories. We have in it the story of Abraham interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah, their destruction, the story of Lot and his daughters. Then we return to Abraham again, this time he is in Geraar where […]

Thoughts on Parashat Noah [maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/za-duza-musi-upasc/” ] This week’s parasha contains two great narratives that are at the foundations of the Judeo-Christian civilization and have inspired people for centuries: the story of Noah and the flood as well as the story of the Tower of Babel. The beginning of the story of Noah tells […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/kazanie-na-paraszat-noach/” ] Beit Warszawa. 1. November 2019 – 3.6mm per year; this is apparently the current rise in sea level per year… At the end of the Flood story God swears Genesis 9:11) never to bring a Flood upon the Earth again – or at least, not a flood of Waters, there are […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/szabat-chol-hamoed-sukot/” ] Beit Warszawa, Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Sukkot, 18th. October 2019. For the Shabbat in Sukkot the rabbis chose as a Torah reading Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 8, which stresses the way in which the Israelites had to spend (and suffer) a lengthy period, forty years, in the wilderness. This seems appropriate to our […]

Beit Warszawa, 11th. October 2019. [maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/haazinu/” ] ‘Haazinu’ – Deuternomy Chapter 32 – is almost the end of the Torah, the five books, and represents what one might call Moses’ ‘Swansong’ – this term is based on the legend that, shortly before it dies, the swan bursts into beautiful song – and then […]