Parashat Behukotai 5778 This week our Self Renovation workshop, a joint program between Tal Orot and Livnot U’Lehibanot, is in full swing. A number of adventurous adults have joined us here in Tzfat, most from the States, one person from…
This Land is God’s Land
Parashat Behar 5778 Meir Sendor This is our first spring tending the garden we started last fall, and it’s in bloom now, with figs and lemons ripening, the summer vegetables getting started, bees humming in the flowers, ladybugs beginning to…
Dependence Day
Acharei Mot/ Kedoshim 5778 Meir Sendor There’s a special feeling to Yom HaAtzmaut this year, celebrating seventy years since the founding of the State of Israel. In Pirkei Avot it says “seventy years signifies the venerability of old age (5:27),”…
Family Ties
Parashat Tazria/ Metzora 5778 Meir Sendor Our next-door neighbor was sitting Shivah this week for the passing of her sister, and people in the neighborhood who know the family were coming by for condolence calls and to help make the…
Above and Beyond
Parashat Vayikra 5778 Meir Sendor I’m not about to wade in to the acrimonious debate going on here in Israel over the exemption of Haredi Yeshivah students from enlisting for some form of military or national service. I will say,…
Back to the Garden
Parashat Vayakhel/ Pekudei 5778 Meir Sendor This week we attended the wedding of a young couple in Tzfat. The Kallah is the daughter of a wonderful family we have come to know here, the brilliant artist Yoel Tordjman and his…
Self Renovation in May!
Hide and Seek
Purim–Parashat Ki Tissa 5778 Meir Sendor Israel in general, and Tzfat in particular, are pretty good at doing Purim. In the week before the dress code is haute couture – the other haute. Little children are sent to school in…
Hearts and Flowers
Parashat Tetzaveh 5778 Meir Sendor This is the season in which the lupines flower in Israel, so this week we took the opportunity to visit Givat haTurmosim, Hill of the Lupines in the Elah Valley, on a beautiful spring-like day…
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