May 19Forty Fourth Day of the OmerThe omer is about counting days towards a goal in the future. Too much awareness of each day one lives can overshadow the goal. Sometimes...
May 18Forty Third Day of the OmerThe mountains get steeper as one gets older, I find. It is something to do with quantum relativity whereby distances expand and take...
May 17Forty Second Day of the Omer“Streshin, a typical shtetl in Belarus, supported at least 15 charitable organisations. There was a Hevrei K’disha (burial society). The...
May 16Forty First Day of the OmerIn 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...
May 15Fortieth Day of the OmerAccording to one ancient rabbinic homiletic commentary the world did not spring forth all at once from God’s omnipresent will, but twenty...