Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
How do you know if those you think are wicked are really wicked? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said that there is no absolutely evil person in the world and no one who is absolutely good either (paraphrasing his famous saying which I quoted in my drasha a few weeks ago). Similarly, the great Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria taught that every created thing possesses a “spark” of divine energy that constitutes its essence[…]
Warsaw 7, August 2020 – There are two sides to every piece of Torah; There is what is said, and there is what is not said. To this must be added the context in which something is said and the concern about what COULD have been said instead and then, of course, there are also our own individual and communal reactions to what is said and how we relate to it, whether and how we accept it or[…]
Love of God is a basic concept of our faith. Although the idea that the Supreme One reciprocates this love, at all times, is theologically problematic. Nevertheless our history indubitably contains records of the immense love He bestowed upon us – His people. To earn the title of God’s beloved (Hebr. ohavi) is to obtain the highest[…]
Prayer is the salient expression of religious emotion and of man’s relationship with God. Presumably every religious person has asked themselves this question: how much prayer do I need in my life and does it make my connection to God stronger? There may be many answers to this question. One analysis may be: I need to make teshuvah, come closer to God and use religion to organize my life[…]
