This is the “season of joy” in Poland! On the Shabbat of Sukkot, the children and families gathered for our special program Shabbat Gam Yachad! The ten special Sabbaths are sponsored by Beit Warszawa, Beit Polska, and the Joint Distribution Committee! The weather in Poland was unusually cooperative!!
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Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
Moments in a Year of Learning to be Jewish
Becoming Jewish- a choice of a lifetime When starting on the journey to become Jewish- candidates of our Step-by-Step group engage in the life cycle of Beit Warszawa and Beit Polska. Theory and practice go hand by hand. Local candidates attend a once a week study session of Jewish customs and laws, Hebrew reading of […]
A Help Mate By Your Side
Adam was all alone. He was lonely. He did not have a brother or a sister to talk to. He didn’t have a friend to play games with. Adam was lonely, and he was unhappy. God said to Adam, “It is not good for you to be alone. But now you are free to do […]
Shabbat Shuvah (Haazinu) 5775 / 26-27 Sep.2014
Why did our tradition assign this time of year as the season of repentence and forgiveness? Rabbinic tradition claims that Moses went down with the second set of Tablets of covenant on the 10th Tishrei, so on that date all realized that the sin of the Golden calf was forgiven. The Biblical text does not mention […]
Introduction to Malchuyot – Coronation of God
R.H. Musaf 5775 (Sep.25, 2014) The Shofar served two different functions in ancient times: It served as the siren warning of an approaching danger: war, flood, wild beasts… It also served as the trumpet calling all to rejoice with a new king or with a new year… All these different purposes are still imbedded in […]
God’s partners –Evening of Rosh HaShanah 5775
In my recent visit in Israel I met a man who has studied and researched for years the sounds that birds use to communicate… I asked him if the birds have any sound which expresses the idea of the ‘creator’ or ‘God’ of nature. He replied: Nothing of that sort! Their languages are very practical, […]