May 18, 2023Forty 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 17, 2023Forty 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 16, 2023Forty 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 15, 2023Fortieth 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...
May 14, 2023Thirty Ninth Day of the OmerJUST ONE LETTER Just one letter was all it took to transform world history. In Exodus Chapter 1 verse 9 the ''Melech Chadash'', the new...