Sukkot 5778 Meir Sendor Tzfat is built on top of two mountains, and towards evening the wind often picks up. On the high, open northeast edge of town, where we live, that wind can really roar through the night at…
Absolutely Smashing
Yom Kippur 5778 Meir Sendor I was cleaning up our garden to get it ready for planting, and went to get rid of a two-foot high stone lawn decoration in the shape of a lion, left by the previous owners.…
Rosh Hashanah 5778
Tal Orot Newsletter Elul 5777
Meir and Anne Sendor Where do we stand After a year in operation, we presently have ongoing meditation groups in three cities in Israel. We also had a two-day seminar in Tzfat in the summer, which was well-attended and well-received.…
Broken Vessels
SAVE THE DATES! May 7-12, 2018 A five-day program for exploring personal connections to Judaism for adults, open to men and women of all backgrounds In the beautiful mystical city of Tzfat In conjunction with Livnot U’Lehibanot Details to follow!…
Horsefeathers
Parashat Ki Teze 5777 Meir Sendor [Please check out four opportunities to connect to an Ellul workshop in Israel, in Pardes Hanna (in Hebrew), Efrat, Jerusalem, and Zikhron Yaakov. You can see more about them here.] Our home borders on…
A Song of Ascents
Parashat Shoftim 5777 Meir Sendor This week the thirtieth annual Klezmer Festival came to Tzfat. For three evenings, first-rate bands gathered from around the world, playing hour-long sets until midnight and beyond, on five open-air stages placed around town. The…
Better and Better
Better and Better Parashat Re’eh 5777 Meir Sendor When we put up our mezuzot in our new home, we said the berakhah “to affix a mezuzah,” plus the berakhah for newly acquiring a house. It was a moving moment to…
The Good Land
Parashat Ekev 5777 Meir Sendor We moved to a new home this week. It’s still in Tzfat, but a different corner of town. Actually, a different mountain, called Har Kena’an, in a suburb of Tzfat. It was a wild experience…
Beyond Our Wall
Parashat Va-etchanan 5777 Noam Sendor Weighed down by severe depression and anxiety, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was invited by patron Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis to seek refuge at the Duino Castle overlooking the Adriatic Sea.…
