Nechushtan

Then YHWH said to Moses, “Make a saraph figure and mount it on a standard. And if anyone who is bitten looks at it, he shall recover.” Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and recover.

Numbers 21:8-9

Shoah

"Holocaust Writing & Transcedental Commitment", Aharon Appelfeld (1984)

Moisés

"Moses Striking the Rock", Pieter de Grebber (1630)

Crianças

"10 Parental Rules that Turn Jewish Kids into Geniuses"

From the peaks of rocks I see them,
From the heights I gaze upon them.
This is a people who dwell alone,
Not reckoning themselves one of the nations. 

Numbers 23:9

Vida

 

A Puss moth caterpillar resting on an aspen tree leaf just after it has shed its skin

Creta

A view of the southern coast of Crete (June 1943)

Midrash

"The Legendization of Midrash in Second Temple Time", James Kugel

Jacob

 

"Esau Sells His Birthright for a Pottage of Lentils", Gerard Hoet (1728)

Haggadah

 

 

 "The Rav (Rabbi Joseph Soloveichik) on the Haggadah", Rabbi Avi Weiss

José

"Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dream", Reginald Arthur (1894)

Be very, very humble, for the hope of Man is the worm.

Avot 4:4

Vida

An Adonis blue butterfly pair on an oxeye daisy in the Cotswolds, England

Ramsés III

Mummy of pharaoh Ramesses III

Nechushtan

"The Copper Serpent", Fyodor Bruni (1839)
 

Mapa de Madaba

 Reproduction of the Madaba Map 

The Madaba Map (also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map) is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. 
The Madaba Map is a map of the Middle East (6th century CE)

Mordecai Kaplan

"Kaplan and Other Important Jewish Approaches"

Rabbi Dr. Allan Nadler "Kaplan and Spinoza" Drew University 0:37 — Rabbi Dr. Elliot Cosgrove, "Kaplan and Milton Steinberg" Park Avenue Synagogue (New York, NY) 26:12 — Dr. Michael Fagenblat "Kaplan and Theology" Shalem College 44:14 — Mr. Daniel Ross Goodman "Kaplan and Orthodoxy" Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School 1:08:04 — Dr. Elliot Ratzman "Kaplan and Mussar 1:26:20  (2014)

Pedra Moabita

The Mesha Stele in its current location. The brown fragments are pieces of the original stele (c. 840 BC), 

whereas the smoother black material is Ganneau's reconstruction from the 1870s.

The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele (inscribed stone) set up around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to Israel, but at length Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab. Mesha describes his many building projects.^[1] Some say it is written in the Phoenician alphabet, but others say it is written in the Old Hebrew script, which is closely related.

Jacques Derrida

"Derrida", Documentary by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman (2002)

Vida

 

A baby spider tortoise is measured at Paignton Zoo,

 which has become the first in Britain to breed one of the world’s smallest and rarest tortoises

Império Sassânida

The frontier between the Roman Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries)

Paulo

"Paul and the Faithfulness of God", N.T. Wright 

Joseph Roth (1938)

Jerusalém

Jerusalem on the Madaba map mosaic in Jordan (6th century CE)

História

Yeshayahu Leibowitz

David

"David", Camillo Boccaccino (1530)

Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis discusses his book "What Went Wrong?" (2002)

Vida

 

A pair of egrets build their nest in Panbazar area on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in Guwahati, India

Ezequiel

Ezekiel's tomb with rabbi caretakers,
Iraqi town of Kifl, not far from the ancient city of Babylon (1932)

Who is honored? One who honors others.

Avot 4:1C

Moses Mendelssohn

"Mendelssohn, Kant, and Freedom of Religion", Paul Guyer

John Zorn

"The Sicilian Clan", Naked City 

Moisés

"Youth of Moses", Sandro Botticelli, Sistine Chapel (1482 )

Paz

"Radical Imagination: Imagining Peace Israel/Palestine - Radical Love in the Face of Fear", 

with Moshe Halbertal & Susannah Heschel 

Vida

A baby mountain gorilla in Virunga national park, Rwanda

Israel

This photo from June 4, 2018, shows a detailed figurine of a king's head on display at the Israel Museum,

 dating to biblical times, and found last year near Israel's northern border with Lebanon, in Jerusalem

An enigmatic sculpture of a king’s head dating back nearly 3,000 years has set off a modern-day mystery caper as scholars try to figure out whose face it depicts. The 5-centimeter (2-inch) sculpture is an exceedingly rare example of figurative art from the Holy Land during the 9th century BCE — a period associated with biblical kings. Exquisitely preserved but for a bit of missing beard, nothing quite like it has been found before. While scholars are certain the stern bearded figure wearing a golden crown represents royalty, they are less sure which king it symbolizes, or which kingdom he may have ruled.

Anthony Bourdain ע״ה

1948

Benny Morris (2008)

René Goscinny

(1971)

Ciência

"The Great Partnership", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Kafka

"The Trial", Franz Kafka (Audiobook)

Vida

A Balkan lynx walking on the mountain of Munella, near the city of Puka, Albania.
Sightings of the endangered species have become so rare that conservationists have raised a red flag about its future.

"Judeu Errante"

"Le Juif Errant", Georges Méliès (1904)

Gevurah

Yeshayahu Leibowitz on the idea of 'Gevurah'

Zion

"Zion", David Roberts

Yiddish

 

"Vu iz dus gesele?" ("Where is the little street?"), Jan Peerce (1963)

Israel

Mordechai Kedar ("L'Chayim")

"Moses and Aaron with the Tablets of the Law", unknown artist (1692)

Yuval Noah Harari

"The Myths We Need to Survive"

Vida

An Abbott’s Booby

Who is valiant? One who conquers his impulses.

Avot 4:1B

David Wolpe

"Sinai Temple 2018 Gala: Rabbi Wolpe Honoree Video"