Parshat Va-etchanan 5776 Rabbi Meir Sendor This week Tzfat really rocked. It was the week of the annual Klezmer Festival, three days and nights of music all over town. Five main stages at main kikarim or town squares feature headline…
Precious Stones
Parshat Matot 5776 Life of souls is the air of your Land, of pure myrrh is your powdered dust, and honey from the comb – your rivers (R. Yehudah Halevi, ‘Zion’). One of the favorite Tzfat stories concerns the great…
Dark Gravity
Parshat Pinchas 5776 שיר השירים פרק ו יא) אל גנת אגוז ירדתי לראות באבי הנחל לראות הפרחה הגפן הנצו הרמנים יב) לא ידעתי נפשי שמתני מרכבות עמי נדיב: “To the nut garden I went down, to see the buds…
Morid Ha-Tal
Parshat Hukkat 5776 Meir Sendor In Erez Yisrael in the long dry summer season the phrase “morid ha-Tal” is added to the Amidah, in nusach Ashkenaz as well as Sefarad. We praise HaShem Who “brings down the dew” in the…
