Thoughts on Parashat Noah [maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/za-duza-musi-upasc/” ] This week’s parasha contains two great narratives that are at the foundations of the Judeo-Christian civilization and have inspired people for centuries: the story of Noah and the flood as well as the story of the Tower of Babel. The beginning of the story of Noah tells […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/kazanie-na-paraszat-noach/” ] Beit Warszawa. 1. November 2019 – 3.6mm per year; this is apparently the current rise in sea level per year… At the end of the Flood story God swears Genesis 9:11) never to bring a Flood upon the Earth again – or at least, not a flood of Waters, there are […]

[maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/szabat-chol-hamoed-sukot/” ] Beit Warszawa, Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Sukkot, 18th. October 2019. For the Shabbat in Sukkot the rabbis chose as a Torah reading Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 8, which stresses the way in which the Israelites had to spend (and suffer) a lengthy period, forty years, in the wilderness. This seems appropriate to our […]

Beit Warszawa, 11th. October 2019. [maxbutton id=”6″ url=”https://polishjewsreviving.org/haazinu/” ] ‘Haazinu’ – Deuternomy Chapter 32 – is almost the end of the Torah, the five books, and represents what one might call Moses’ ‘Swansong’ – this term is based on the legend that, shortly before it dies, the swan bursts into beautiful song – and then […]