FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
Is there a general rule of how we should deal with evil? Should we fight back, respond with poker face or with doing good to an evildoer, hoping that he will become aware of the wickedness of his behavior and will return to the right path? The answers to these questions are dependent on what we believe about the nature of evil: does evil exist objectively? Or maybe certain human actions are only evil ‘in our[…]
European Union for Progressive Judaism Pride Shabbat, 3rd July 2021 – 23rd Tammuz 5781
Shabbat shalom everyone. It’s an honour and a great pleasure to be invited to speak today at this first European Union for Progressive Judaism Pride Shabbat morning service.
I would like to take this opportunity to express heartfelt solidarity for all those living in countries where LGBTQ+ people do not have the protection of equality laws and experience homophobic and transphobic abuse and persecution, both by the authorities and in popular culture.[…]
Szabat Dumy (Pride) Europejskiej Unii na Rzecz Postępowego Judaizmu, 3 lipca 2021 – 23 tamuz 5781
Szabat szalom wszystkim. To wielki zaszczyt i wielka przyjemność zostać zaproszoną, aby przemawiać dzisiaj podczas tego pierwszego porannego nabożeństwa szabatowego Pride (Duma) organizowanego przez Europejską Unię na rzecz Postępowego Judaizmu.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man, said ancient Greek philosopher, Heraklitus. This great metaphor says that change is at the essence of everything, both in the world of nature and the human world. […]
Żaden człowiek nie wejdzie dwa razy do tej samej rzeki; bo nie będzie to już ta sama rzeka lub on nie będzie tym samym człowiekiem. Ta wielka, wypowiedziana przez Heraklita metafora, głosi, iż zmiana jest istotą wszystkiego, zarówno w świecie przyrody, jak i w świecie człowieka.[…]
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” said Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher of Jewish origin. Very true: it is often the case that we cannot truly understand a phenomenon until we have a linguistic representation.[…]
