FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
Another year goes by and we have parashat Emor again. At the end of this Torah portion we find the following story:
There came out among the Israelites a man whose mother was Israelite and whose father was Egyptian. And a fight broke out in the camp between that half-Israelite and a certain Israelite.[…]
Mija kolejny rok i znów mamy paraszę Emor. Pod koniec owej porcji Tory znajdujemy taką oto historię:
Między Izraelitami znajdował się syn pewnej Izraelitki i Egipcjanina. Syn Izraelitki pokłócił się z pewnym Izraelitą w obozie. Syn Izraelitki zbluźnił przeciwko Imieniu i przeklął je.[…]
Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust is a historical triumph focused on the Polish Jewish ethos that developed in post-World War I, newly independent Poland. The emergence of the historian as a public intellectual, academic expert, and community leader is an inspiring saga. Opposition to Jews in Poland included mild forms of suspicion and increasingly new forms of antisemitism that were racial.[…]
(Wayikra 19:1 – 20:27)
Imagine a perfect morning: the smell of freshly brewed coffee, the singing of spring birds outside the window. You open the door to your apartment, you grab a fresh newspaper brought by the mailman already before dawn, you sit at the table, the paper rustles nicely[…]
(Wajikra 19:1 – 20:27)
Wyobraź sobie idealny poranek: zapach świeżo zaparzonej kawy, śpiew wiosennych ptaków za oknem. Otwierasz drzwi mieszkania, bierzesz do ręki świeżą gazetę, którą listonosz przyniósł jeszcze przed świtem, siadasz przy stole i z przyjemnym szelestem papieru otwierasz ją i czytasz najnowsze wiadomości. Nagle staje się jasne – świat idealny nie istnieje, i ludzi idealnych też nie ma…[…]
After the death of Aaron’s two sons, Nadav and Avihu, God instructs Moses regarding the atoning sacrifices to be offered by the kohanim on Yom Kippur:
God said to Moses: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, lest he die; for I appear in the cloud over the cover. Thus only shall Aaron enter the Shrine: with a bull of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.[…]
