23 de junho de 2016


rise
rise from the depths rise
from the dark places and the rubble rise
with your bleeding hands
and if your days were heavy there
and if the sun set in sunsets without end
rise.

Avraham ben Yizhak
 

Seder



Yemenite Passover Seder - Drinking wine in the Kiddush ceremony. 
Note the table is covered at that point, and all men are leaning to their left as prescribed.

Vida


A bumblebee hovers over blooming flowers, in Frankfurt Main, Germany

21 de junho de 2016

Nova Iorque


"New Amsterdam" (1664)


When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are about to enter and possess, and He dislodges many nations before you - the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations much larger than you - and the LORD your God delivers them to you and you defeat them, you must doom them to destruction: grant them no terms and give them no quarter. You shall not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. For they will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods, and the LORD's anger will blaze forth against you and He will promptly wipe you out. Instead, this is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred posts, and consign their images to the fire.
For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God: of all the peoples on earth the LORD your God chose you to be His treasured people. It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the LORD set His heart on you and chose you - indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the LORD favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the LORD freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:1-8   
(JPS)

Bíblia


"The Bible in University Education", Christine Hayes

18 de junho de 2016

Rússia


"The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution" (Yale)

Vida


 
The golden toad was once native to the cloud forests of Costa Rica, but climate change aggravated the threats 
from deadly chytrid fungus and pollution, eventually driving the species to extinction

1516



8 de junho de 2016

Shavuot


Mount Sinai (circa 1910)

Israel


 
Immigrants from Iraq, Poland and Romania wait for medical examinations at the Atlit transit camp in northern Israel (1951)

Inglaterra


Upper margin of the Exchequer Receipt Roll, Hilary and Easter Terms (1233)

The earliest known anti-Jewish caricature is a sketch—actually, an elaborate doodle—in the upper margin of an English royal tax record from 1233. It shows three bizarre-looking Jews standing inside a schematic castle, which is being attacked by a host of cartoonish horned, beak-nosed demons. Another, larger demon in the center of the castle tweaks the freakishly long noses of two of the Jews, as if to underscore the resemblance between their profiles and his own.
 

7 de junho de 2016


But Ruth replied, "Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus and more may the LORD do to me if anything but death parts me from you."

Ruth 1: 16-17
(JPS)

Vida


A great tit feeds its six-day-old chicks in a nesting box

Jascha Heifetz


"Zigeunerweisen", Sarasate