The omer is about counting days towards a goal in the future. Too much awareness of each day one lives can overshadow the goal. Sometimes...

The mountains get steeper as one gets older, I find. It is something to do with quantum relativity whereby distances expand and take...

“Streshin, a typical shtetl in Belarus, supported at least 15 charitable organisations. There was a Hevrei K’disha (burial society). The...

In the ANU, the new Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, there is a work of art at the entrance to the exhibition that triggers many...

According to one ancient rabbinic homiletic commentary the world did not spring forth all at once from God’s omnipresent will, but twenty...

JUST ONE LETTER Just one letter was all it took to transform world history. In Exodus Chapter 1 verse 9 the ''Melech Chadash'', the new...

What is clear to me is that in order to connect past, present and future, we need to find a cause that liberates us from crippling grief...

Pharaoh never understood Moses. For Pharaoh, the eved, the slave, was the lowest form of life, mere slave labour. For Moses, the eved was...

Why is the Omer period considered a period of semi-mourning? There are obscure hints and a lot of deliberate misinformation. The midrash...

Each year I try to count the Omer, and each year I fail. That’s ok. It’s my family tradition, not managing to count the Omer. Let me...