Pesach 5779 by Meir Sendor The SpaceIL team that engineered Israel’s attempt to land a space capsule the size of a washing machine on the moon has just published its preliminary report on what went wrong. You can check out…
Freedom Ride
Online Course in Jewish Meditation Instruction We’re now in the process of forming an online course in Jewish Meditation Instruction. If you are interested, please let us know! Parashat Metzora – Shabbat HaGadol 5779 by Meir Sendor We voted in…
What’s Up, Doc?
Parashat Tazria – Parashat haHodesh 5779 by Meir Sendor Jewish historians have noticed an odd recurring image in a number of medieval illuminated manuscripts of the Pesach Haggadah. Like modern haggadot, these medieval versions are decorated with pictures illustrating the…
Eloquent Quiet
New Course in Jewish Meditation Training in Tzfat and online! For details, please see our page here. Parashat Shemini 5779 by Meir Sendor There is a time to be quiet and a time to speak (Kohelet 3:7). And then…
The Scream
Purim Consciousness To listen to the class given on Purim Consciousness on March 17, 2019 at Nishmat in Jerusalem, please click on this link. The source sheet can be found here. Parashat Tzav – Purim 5779 by Meir Sendor Mordechai’s immediate reaction…
Student Teacher Ratio
Parashat Vayikra 5779 by Meir Sendor A Tzfat resident complained to me a few weeks back that he was interested in learning something about Kabbalah, since it’s the town specialty, but every rabbi in town he had approached had just…
Close Encounters
Parashat Pekudei 5779 by Meir Sendor We had the first dry, sunny day in a while and I figured to take the opportunity to get in an early morning run. The route I like is one that includes a long…
Make It So
Parashat VaYakhel 5779 by Meir Sendor The town of Tzfat together with the Jewish National Fund recently rehabbed a park that had languished in disrepair, closed to the public for several years. Each organization had argued that the other was…
A Steady Hand
Parashat Ki Tissa 5779 by Meir Sendor This week I attended the Brit Milah of the grandson of friends that took place in one of the oldest original synagogues of Tzfat, the Beit Knesset Rabbi Yosef Bannai, also called HaTzaddik…
Shine On
Parashat Tetzaveh 5779 In Memory of Ori Ansbacher, אורי בת הרב גדי ונעאה, זק”ל by Meir Sendor We are sometimes asked by friends and acquaintances visiting Tzfat to give them a tour around town and we’re pleased to oblige. We’re…
