Parashat Behar 5779 by Meir Sendor On Yom HaAtzmaut last week, one of the first beautiful days of this year’s late spring, we took a long walk to Mount Avnit in the Biriyah Forest, the next mountain over, not far…
What Love’s Got To Do With It
Parashat Kedoshim 5779 by Meir Sendor Traveling in the Golan this week with good friends, we visited Gamla. Two millennia ago it was a thriving community, but it was besieged and destroyed by the Romans in 67 C.E., most of…
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…
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…
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…
Storm System
Parashat Yitro 5779 Meir Sendor The recent storm system that blew through Israel dropped 53cm (21 inches) of fresh snow on already snow-capped Mount Hermon. We have a view of the mountain from our home and it’s a majestic 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…
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…
