Parashat Va-etchanan 5779 by Meir Sendor We’re traveling outside Israel right now, teaching some meditation workshops and visiting family. We’re grateful for these precious opportunities, but we also have to admit that there’s something painful about leaving the Land of…
Unified Vision
Parashat Devarim – Shabbat Hazon 5779 by Meir Sendor This week included the yahrzeit of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the Ari z”l, on the 5th of Menachem Av. It’s an important occasion, especially here in Tzfat, where he revealed and taught…
Mobile Home
Parashat Masei 5779 by Meir Sendor We often find that when friends come to visit, as two couples did a few days ago, it’s an opportunity to tour the Land from a fresh perspective. Tel Hazor, an archeological site not…
Bridge to Everywhere
Parashat Matot 5779 by Meir Sendor This week a friend of ours completed a major step in an ambitious project he has envisioned. Three years ago, Yoel Tordjman, one of the great and accomplished artists of Tzfat, who is also…
Remedies
Parashat Balak 5779 by Meir Sendor I was in college in the late Sixties, in those wild and crazy times. I remember a sit-in on the campus quadrangle, a protest against the war in Vietnam. Some of the students, speaking…
Family
Parashat Hukkat 5779 by Meir Sendor Israel is convulsed by the death of Solomon Tekah, alav ha-Shalom, a nineteen year-old Israeli of the Ethiopian community in the greater Haifa area, shot by an off-duty policeman. The details of the incident…
Star Power
In Jerusalem for women Three classes at Nishmat July 7-11 Maimonides, Hassidut, Prophecy, and Meditation in the evening https://www.talorot.org/classes-and-events/ Parashat Korach 5779 by Meir Sendor As we continue to settle into our neighborhood in Tzfat we’re always on the…
What a question!
In Jerusalem for women Three classes at Nishmat July 7-11 Maimonides, Hassidut, Prophecy, and Meditation in the evening https://www.talorot.org/classes-and-events/ Parashat Shelach 5779 by Meir Sendor I’m asked occasionally by a local hotel to give a tour of Tzfat and the…
From God’s Mouth
Parashat Beha’alotkha 5779 by Meir Sendor We were in the Old City of Tzfat for Shavuot, and after the all-night Tikkun, teaching shiurim and learning Torah with friends, we went to the Beit HaKnesset Abuhav for the sunrise minyan. After…
