Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei 5777 Meir Sendor A young guest at our Shabbat table recently asked whether I still go to minyan regularly during the week, seeing as I’m no longer serving as a community Rabbi. It was not an innocent question.…
The Big Picture
Parashat Ki Tissa 5777 Meir Sendor We were warned that Purim is kind of a Tzfat specialty, and the partying can get pretty interesting. At the Purim Seudah of friends in the courtyard of their home, the fact that it…
Road Trip
Parashat Vayechi 5777 Rabbi Meir Sendor One of the humbling experiences Olim Hadashim go through is the process of getting an Israeli driver’s license. Never mind that I’ve been driving for more than 50 years – by law, I still…
Brother’s Keeper
Parashat Vayigash 5777 Rabbi Meir Sendor Our Ulpan resumed this week after the Hanukkah break and before class began one of the students gave a passionate speech, truly a devar Torah, in which he expressed what he learned from Hanukkah…
If, Then
Parashat Vayetze Rabbi Meir Sendor At the beginning of this week’s parashah, Yaakov Avinu, on his way out of the Land of Canaan, fleeing his brother Esav and anxious about his future, has his Ladder dream in which HaShem promises…
It’s All in the Details
Lekh Lekha 5777 Rabbi Meir Sendor This week we visited Agamon ha-Hula, the nature preserve in northern Israel that is one of the premier birding spots of the world. Israel’s location puts it at the pivotal center of the migration…
Flex Time
Parashat Noach 5777 Rabbi Meir Sendor Part of our absorption process as new Olim is taking Ulpan. As I mentioned in the post on Parashat Shoftim, we are taking a course called אולפן תעסוקתי – employment Ulpan, for those entering…
Sukkat Shalom
Sukkot 5777 In the Talmud Sukkot 27b it says: חכמים אומרים: …יוצא ידי חובתו בסוכתו של חבירו, דכתיב כל האזרח בישראל ישבו בסכת – מלמד שכל ישראל ראוים לישב בסוכה אחת. The Sages say: … a person can fulfill his…
