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...