A time for rest and rejuvenation.
Each of us has to take care of and nourish our body, mind, and soul.
Wishing everyone a Shabbat Shalom!
Please stay safe and healthy. ;-)
(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
Shabbat Shalom and Stay Healthy!
I just wanted to share a short reflection with everything going on in the world these days with coronavirus and the economic shutdown: I see people are scared and confused, under lockdown and feeling financial strain, and many are getting sick and dying. But I remember the words of my dear father who used to say: "Count Your Blessings!" And he was so right. There are so many things, literally every moment of every day, for us to be grateful for:
Count Your Blessings
Those Were Different Days
Children Are Our Future
Hope Amidst Coronavirus.
Hope Amidst Coronavirus
Even if a sharp sword rests upon a person's neck, he should not refrain from praying for mercy.
G-d Hears Your Prayers
Fire Stripes on Buggy
Key Person | Year | Published Work | Main Idea |
Avraham Mapu | 1853 | The Love of Zion | Longing of Jewish people for their ancestral homeland |
Moses Hess | 1862 | Rome and Jerusalem | Europe's welcome to Jews is tenuous, and Jews should seek return to homeland |
Leon Pinsker | 1882 | Auto-Emancipation | Jews are not accepted in European host countries, and are urged to seek national rebirth |
Nathan Birnbaum | 1890 | Self-Emancipation | Coined the term Zionism referring to a movement to re-create a national Jewish home in Israel |
Chaim Nachman Bialik | 1892 |
El Hatzipor (To The Bird)
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Poem on longing for return to Zion |
Chaim Nachman Bialik | 1898 | Mikra'ei Zion (Assemblies of Zion) | Poem of hope and expectation of return to Zion |
Theodor Herzl | 1896 | The Jewish State | Jewish State will usher an end to rabid anti-Semitism everywhere |
Theodor Herzl | 1897 | Launched Zionism as political movement and convened first Zionist Congress | |
Theodor Herzl | 1902 | Altneuland | Envisions idyllic future Jewish state |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | 1923 | Samson Nazorei | Ideal of active, courageous, Jewish warrior |
The Founding Of Zionism
Pressure makes diamonds.
Diamonds Under Pressure
"G-d is greater than you problem"
Problems Are Earthly
After synagogue services today, we sat at the Kiddish with a lovely couple, and the lady took the opportunity to go around the table and ask each person: “What good thing happened to you this week?” I really appreciated the idea of focusing on the good and the miracles we live through every day rather than the bad things. It was interesting though that people seemed to have trouble saying something really positive from their week. In truth, they seemed more enveloped in the problems of the times rather than the opportunities that each day brings.But truly, there are so many good things that we can appreciate each and every day, and that inspires faith and hope for many more good things to come. ;-)
Appreciate The Good
Beautiful Flowers
Awesome "Am Echad" by Ari Goldwag
There is no reason to fight because we all believe in G-d and that He created us.
The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.
And On That Day...
Lessons In Teshuvah - Near-Death Experience
Prayer For Rosh Hashanah
What A Beautiful Song - To Forgive and to Forget
Mikva (Jewish ritual bath) = Tikva (hope)
Rebirth and renewal (from the immersion in the holy water).
Build your family in sanctity!
Purity leads to sanctity.
"The day is short and the task is great."
Mikva = Tikva