[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/wajeszew/” ] Beit Warszawa, 20th. Dec. 2019 – ”And Jacob lived where his father had only been passing through, in the land of Canaan.” (Genesis 37:1). Many commentators have tried to explain this sentence which is so heavily laden with meaning, for it raises some fundamental questions by positing a contrast between two […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/o-boskiej-ochronie/” ] Thoughts on Parashat Vayetze The Torah portion for this week starts with the story in which Jacob leaves his hometown of Beersheba and journeys to Charan, a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia (today’s southeastern Turkey). On this supposedly pretty long journey he encounters a certain place and sleeps there dreaming […]

[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 […]