Our schedule for our upcoming new classes for the year can be found here. Classes start next week online! Hol HaMoed Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret 5781 by Meir Sendor One of the recurring symbols of Chag HaSukkot is the circle.…
New Classes for the New Year
For further information and links, please go to https://www.talorot.org/classes-and-events/.
Shake and Wake
Sukkot 5781 Meir Sendor The mitzvah of the Four Species on Sukkot is to take one Lulav, three branches of myrtle leaves and two branches of willow leaves bound together in your dominant hand, and the Etrog in your other…
Total Immersion
Yom Kippur 5781 Meir Sendor ישעיהו פרק כד (י) נשברה קרית תהו סגר כל בית מבוא: The confused city is broken, every house is locked down so none shall enter (Is. 24:10). The prophet Yeshayahu knew about lockdowns, and…
Brave New Year
Rosh Hashanah 5781 by Meir Sendor We’re about to go into a three-week lockdown here in Israel, taking us from Rosh HaShanah through Sukkot. Several sectors of society are complaining, but we have brought this on ourselves. Some of those…
Tal Orot Newsletter 5781
Where do we stand After four years in operation, we had ongoing meditation groups in five cities in Israel. We continued our intensive Jewish meditation training program in Tzfat into the second year. With the onset of the COVID-19 virus,…
Choose Life
Parashat Nitzavim/ VaYelekh 5780 Meir Sendor You would think this would be an easy choice: דברים פרק ל (יט) העדתי בכם היום את השמים ואת הארץ החיים והמות נתתי לפניך הברכה והקללה ובחרת בחיים למען תחיה אתה וזרעך: I…
Hard Knocks
Parashat Ki Tavo 5780 Meir Sendor Last week we got together with family for an outing before the grandchildren return to school in this challenging time of pandemic. We met at one of the national archeological parks that we figured…
We are All in this Together
Parashat Ki Teze 5780 Meir Sendor During this month of Elul we try to work on ourselves and our relationships with God and with each other in preparation for Rosh HaShanah. According to Rabbi David Abudarham (Abudarham, Tefillat Rosh HaShanah,…
New Normal
On Tuesday nights, August 25, September 1, 8, 15; 8PM Israel time The month of Elul, in preparation for Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, is dedicated to introspective self-improvement, and there are traditional Jewish meditation practices that can be…
