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…
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…
Off Road
Parashat Terumah 5779 Meir Sendor We took some time from our usual schedule last week and visited the nature reserve at Mount Arbel on a beautiful sunny day. The Arbel features steep cliffs with dramatic views overlooking the Kinneret and…
Start Up Nation
Parashat Bo 5779 Meir Sendor Livnot U’Lehibanot, the fine and effective educational organization in Tzfat that inspires love for Israel through programs offering hiking, volunteering and learning, also hosts Birthright groups and their extension programs under the banner “Mountains and…
Preferred Pronouns
Parashat Va-era 5779 Meir Sendor One of the participants in a shiur I taught on prayer told me that she talks to HaShem constantly throughout the day, not just at the three official daily times of tefillah, Shacharit, Minchah, Maariv.…
Mamaloshen
Parashat Shemot 5779 Meir Sendor The twenty-first of Tevet is Yom Ivrit in Israel – Hebrew Language Day. It’s set on the birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah (1858-1922), the linguist and lexicographer who, with single-minded devotion, was instrumental in helping to…
All for One and One for All
Parashat Vayechi 5779 Meir Sendor I’ve been getting used to the Edot ha-Mizrach liturgy and customs of the Moroccan Kehillah we attend. It’s more wordy than Ashkenaz liturgy, but there are some nice flourishes. For instance, when a man gets…
Gathering In
Parashat Vayigash 5779 Meir Sendor This week Yaffa Batya DaCosta, the founder of the Israeli organization Ezra L’Anousim came to meet with me, prompted by last week’s blog post that featured the story of a woman from Brazil who discovered…
The Guiding Light
Parashat Miketz 5779 Meir Sendor I have been teaching a series on Talmudic mysticism at a women’s Beit Midrash in Tzfat, and this week at the end of the shiur we discussed some of the mystical aspects of Hanukkah based…
Rock and Roll
Parashat VaYetze 5779 Meir Sendor In the midst of the bombardment with 460 or so rockets that Hamas launched this week against the Israeli civilian communities of the South causing death, injury and destruction, in the midst of Israel’s retaliation…
