Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
Van Nuys, one of the northern neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Monday around 5 pm. A journalist from a TV station is talking with several people gathered in front of a grocery store. All of them are African-Americans, two of the men are holding shotguns. Just like many others in the neighborhood, they are protecting their businesses from raids of thieves and looters which accompany the demonstrations[…]
Beit Warszawa. 28th. May 2020. (6th. Sivan 5780) – All major Jewish festivals have different layers reflecting different historical periods within and outside the Land, agricultural and post-agricultural activities, and more. Shavuot, as well as being traditionally a harvest festival for the new year’s wheat, is also considered to be the time at which – seven weeks after the Liberation of Pesach – Israel received the specific revelation from God on Mount Sinai, through Moses as the intermediary. The story is (hopefully) well-known – but it is[…]
This Sabbath we begin the Book of Numbers, in Hebrew Bamidbar (In the Desert). At the beginning of Parashat Bamidbar God asks Moses to conduct a census of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses counts 603,505 men able to bear arms (20 to 60 years); the tribe of Levi, however, numbering 22,300 males aged one month and older, is counted separately.[…]
[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/refleksja-nad-parasza-behar-bechukotai/” ] How does the behavior of individual people determine the life of human communities? This very interesting question, which is especially relevant today, has been tackled by whole generations of philosophers dealing with social relations, by social scientists, social psychologists and other social sciences specialists. Of course this question is extremely vague […]
