Thoughts on Parashat Beshalach. This week Torah portion contains stories that are famous and widespread in the entire western culture. It tells us about Pharaoh chasing after Israelites, to force their return to Egypt, splitting the Sea of Reeds; Israelites experiencing their first thirst and hunger in the desert, Moses bringing forth water from a […]

Beit Warszawa 18th. January 2019 Geography has always fascinated me and I have often found Geography as portrayed in the Torah quite fascinating – some place names remain the same, some have altered over the millennia. Unless some major cataclysmic catastrophe happens – where exactly WAS Atlantis? – most major land masses stay roughly the […]

Thoughts on Parashat Bo The story we find in this week’s Torah portion to a certain extent serves as a matrix for many processes which took place over the course of the world’s history. It describes the slow collapse of tyrannical power. Slow and dramatic, since despotism never ends suddenly and painlessly. When I speak […]

In this week’s Torah portion Vayera the Eternal commands Moses to inform the Israelites that their bondage is about to end. Moses is supposed to convey the following message to them: [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]I am the [Eternal]. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians and deliver you […]