[For information about upcoming classes in Jerusalem this month, please click here] Parashat Balak 5777 Meir Sendor Over the last few weeks we have enjoyed wonderful visits from friends, giving us the opportunity to introduce them to some of our…
Bites of Reality
Parashat Hukkat 5777 Meir Sendor The other day I was jogging along the switchbacks of the dirt road that winds through the forest of Tzfat, up along the northern side of the mountain, when I came upon a man walking…
Thanks for the Coffee
Parashat Korah 5777 Meir Sendor I took a quick trip to the States last week to officiate at a wedding and to take the opportunity spend good time with family. Things went pretty smoothly and happily until the flights back…
If You Will It
Parashat Shelach 5777 Meir Sendor Last week Ryan Bellerose came to Tzfat. He’s a Métis, one of the First Nations from the area of what is now Northern Alberta. Ryan’s a political activist for the First Nations in Canada and…
To Number Our Days
Parashat Emor 5777 Meir Sendor As Lag BaOmer approaches an electricity builds up here in the Galil. This day signifies the end of the plague that decimated the students of Rabbi Akiva as related in the Gemara Yevamot 62b. Throughout…
The Great Blue and White Hope
Parashat Acharei Mot Kedoshim – After the Death of Holy Ones – 5777 Meir Sendor צִיּוֹן, הֲלֹא תִשְׁאֲלִי לִשְׁלוֹם אֲסִירַיִךְ, דּוֹרְשֵׁי שְׁלוֹמֵךְ וְהֵם יֶתֶר עֲדָרָיִךְ מִיָּם וּמִזְרָח וּמִצָּפוֹן וְתֵימָן שְׁלוֹם רָחוֹק וְקָרוֹב שְׂאִי מִכֹּל עֲבָרָיִךְ, וּשְׁלוֹם אֲסִיר תַּאֲוָה, נוֹתֵן דְּמָעָיו…
Continuing Education
Parashat Tazria-Metzora 5777 Meir Sendor This week we had a bunch of bureaucratic errands to get done. Israeli government agencies have earned a certain Kafka-esque reputation, but frankly, in our experience, especially in Tzfat, the people we have met are…
Kamah Ma’alot Tovot
Hol HaMoed Pesach 5777 Meir Sendor Dedicated to the memory of those murdered in the terrorist attack in Ma’alot in May 1974 During Hol HaMoed Israelis hit the roads on family trips, and we followed suit with a trip to the northern…
Free to be Free
Parashat Tzav, Shabbat ha-Gadol 5777 Meir Sendor The other day after Maariv at the Beit Midrash Ha-Ari z”l in Tzfat, I arranged with the Rav of the Kehillah to sell our hametz. While I was at it, I asked the…
