[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 […]