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[…]

Thoughts on Parashat Bamidbar

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 […]

Beit Warszawa. 8th. May 2020 – This is a day whose significance cannot be ignored, even if it is a day which has many facets. Officially, on 8th. May 1945, the Third Reich capitulated against the victorious Allied forces represented by Britain (together with its Imperial forces), the United States and the Soviet Union. At the stroke of a pen. Since I come from Britain, live and work in Germany and work also in Poland (even if held geographically distant at present by a new form of Iron Curtain) this is an anniversary that cannot be ignored. As we know – if we bother to listen and learn – this did NOT mean that the […]