Parashat Balak 5778 Meir Sendor Last Shabbat we celebrated our oldest grandson becoming a Bar Mitzvah. In preparation I studied his parashah with him over FaceTime and we worked together to prepare a devar Torah. It was an experience that…
Moveable Gifts
Parashat Hukkat 5778 Meir Sendor When Rabbi Yitzhak Luria arrived in Tzfat in 1570 his profound understanding of Kabbalah together with his personal spiritual skills electrified the resident scholarly community. His insights into the most recondite passages of the Zohar…
Making Space
Parashat Korah 5778 Meir Sendor The local Moroccan Beit HaKnesset we go to here in Tzfat has a delightful spirit. Though we have found most kehillot open and welcoming, there’s a different style to Moroccan custom. Everyone prays the liturgy…
A Different Drum
Parashat Shelach 5778 Over the last weeks the fire kite and balloon arson from Gaza has intensified and become a significant problem for the surrounding Israeli communities, with thousands of acres of farmland destroyed. This tactic uses the West wind,…
Torah Mind Meld
Please view our privacy notice here Parashat Baha’alotkha 5778 Meir Sendor I do some teaching of meditation for Livnot U’Lehibanot here in Tzfat, working with their long-term groups and with some of the school and tourist groups that come through…
Renovation Road
Parashat Behukotai 5778 This week our Self Renovation workshop, a joint program between Tal Orot and Livnot U’Lehibanot, is in full swing. A number of adventurous adults have joined us here in Tzfat, most from the States, one person from…
This Land is God’s Land
Parashat Behar 5778 Meir Sendor This is our first spring tending the garden we started last fall, and it’s in bloom now, with figs and lemons ripening, the summer vegetables getting started, bees humming in the flowers, ladybugs beginning to…
Stormy Weather
Parashat Emor 5778 Meir Sendor The Land of Israel has been battered by a series of wild, unseasonable thunderstorms all week, with gale force winds, heavy downpours and hail, from here in the north down to Eilat. Tragically, a powerful…
