Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
Parashat „Ha’azinu“ consists of the last prayer Moshe says, in front of the people. In this wonderful composed prayer, he explains once again that God is perfect, and full of mercy. God is never wrong, he is true and „YaShar“,…
Many of you know that I moved a few short weeks ago. Anyone, who has moved, knows that relocation from one place to another isn’t easy. There are so many things to consider. What needs to be put into the…
KiTavo, our Parasha for this week starts with the words: VE HAJA, KI TAVO ET HA’ARETZ ASHER ADONAI ELOHEICHA NOTEN LECHA – When you enter the land that the Eternal, Your God is giving you. What follows are instructions to…
Parashat Ki Tetze continues to present a rich and varied collection of directives that serve as a partial blueprint for behaviours and norms to create a just society. It contains a mixture of seventy-two commandments, dealing with such diverse subjects…
Parshat Shoftim is concerned with the structures of governance of biblical society and their just operation: the government and its military, the courts and the religious authorities. Having emerged from the foreign slavery of Egypt and now attempting to maintain…
A key passage in our Parshah (Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25) is the second chapter of the Shema, which repeats the fundamental mitzvot enumerated in the Shema’s first chapter, and describes the rewards of fulfilling God’s commandments and the adverse results (famine and…
Entsprechend unserer jüdischen Zeitrechnung fällt in die kommende Woche wieder der 9. Av – Tischa b’Av. Es ist der Tag, so lehren es unsere Weisen, an dem sowohl der erste, als auch der zweite Tempel in Jerusalem zerstört wurden und…
Unser Wochenabschnitt für diese Woche heißt „Dewarim“ – „Worte“. Er ist der erste Wochenabschnitt aus dem fünften und letzten Buch unserer Tora. Das ganze Buch enthält eine Serie von Reden, die Moses an die Israeliten richtet, kurz bevor sie in…
In this week’s reading, Massei (מַסְעֵי — Hebrew for “journeys”, Moses reviews the forty years of Israelite journeys through the desert. The Torah discusses the boundaries of Israel, its division amongst the tribes, the cities which the Levites would receive,…
In war, truth is the first casualty. (Aeschylus) Reading our parashah Mattot ((Numbers 30:2–32:42)) while seeing the pictures from Israel and Gaza in the news is difficult for me. During the last weeks it has become harder and harder for…