Parashat Ki Tissa 5781 by Meir Sendor This past Sunday we took advantage of the good weather to go hunting for the Gilboa Iris, a rare and beautiful flower that blossoms for about four weeks, from late February into March…
Crowning Glory
Parashat Ki Tissa 5780 by Meir Sendor This week’s parashah recounts one of the worst calamities of the wilderness journey of the Jewish people, yet it turns into an opportunity for one of the most vital divine revelations. The sin…
A Steady Hand
Parashat Ki Tissa 5779 by Meir Sendor This week I attended the Brit Milah of the grandson of friends that took place in one of the oldest original synagogues of Tzfat, the Beit Knesset Rabbi Yosef Bannai, also called HaTzaddik…
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…
