Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
For Beit Warszawa, 12th December 2020 – This week’s sidra starts off with a calm, reassuring verse about Jacob feeling at last that he can settle down in peace in the land where his fathers were only wandering foreigners. ”Vayeshev Ya’akov be’Eretz megurey Aviv, beEretz Canaan.” It is, sadly, about the last calm verse in the whole sidra. Ironically, before the chapter is over Joseph, […]
We live in a world that is so deeply divided ideologically that it is commonplace to rationalize the concept that people live in different, parallel realities. We see ideas of tolerance and pluralism, that were born from the Enlightenment, proliferated during the last 20 years – expressed in slogans like “agree to disagree” or[…]
Żyjemy w świecie tak podzielonym ideologicznie, że codziennością stało się racjonalizowanie koncepcji, iż ludzie żyją w różnych, równoległych rzeczywistościach. Widzimy, że idee tolerancji i pluralizmu, wywodzące się z ery Oświecenia i rozprzestrzeniane w ciągu ostatnich 20 lat – wyrażane w sloganach takich jak „zgódźmy się, że się nie zgodzimy” albo przypisywany Wolterowi[…]
Some people accuse the Hebrew Bible of containing fiction or idealizing certain events or phenomena, especially when it speaks of incredible or miraculous events. The main problem with this critique is that the Bible contains testimonies that are to a large extent non-falsifiable. The proposed “methods of verification” of the biblical stories often consist in[…]
