Give Him of what is His,
for you and yours are His.

Avot 3:8

Rembrandt

"Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh" (c. 1651)

Herman Shine ע״ה

Christine Hayes

"The Derech Eretz of Civil Discourse: Being Right, Being Good - How to Answer a Fool"

Ucrânia

Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Vida

 

Olive Ridley sea turtles make nests to lay their eggs at Ixtapilla Beach, Michoacan State, Mexico

Sinai

"Sinai Mountain", Richard Mcbee (1994)

Berlim

July 1945 

Abdol Hossein Sardari

Israel

Persian fallow deer

Proust

"Portrait Souvenir" (1962)

Shai Held

"Social Justice In Judaism"

 

Vida

Peacock Spider

Boris Pasternak

Peredelkino (1956)

Haman

"Haman Recognizes his Fate", Rembrandt (1665)

Houdini

"Straight Jacket Escape"

All who possess these three things,
praise as disciples of our father Abraham.
But if these three other things,
they are disciples of the wicked Balaam.
A good eye, a humble spirit, and a forbearing soul -
a disciple of our father Abraham.
A bad eye, a haughty spirit, and a greedy soul -
A disciple of the wicked Balaam.

Avot 5:22
  

Rembrandt

"Belshazzar's Feast" (1638)

John Zorn

 "The Ballad of Hank McCain" (Vocal: Mike Patton)

 

Tisha B’Av

 

"The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70", David Roberts (1850)

Vida

Ants on a leaf at sunset in Van, Turkey 

Jerusalém

"The Future of Jerusalem: a View from the Front", Dore Gold

Eufrates

(1910)

Aramaico

Cuneiform and Aramaic Scribes, wall painting from Til Barsip (744–727 BCE)

Menorah

 "Menorahs in Ancient Israel", Steven Fine

Memória

"Jewish Cultural Memory & Its Multiple Configurations", Paul Mendes-Flohr (2001)

The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates. 

Deuteronomy 1, 6-7
 

Vida

A wagtail flies from a sheep in Herrenberg, southern Germany

Ketubah

Unknown origin (before 1911)

Maimónides

"The Great Eagle - Journey in the Footsteps of Maimonides"

(with the option of english subtitles)

Iémen

Elderly Yemenite Jew (between 1898 and 1914)

Boris Pasternak

The funeral of Boris Pasternak

Adão

 "Elohim Creating Adam", William Blake (1805)

Tanach

"Teaching the Tanach", Rabbi Benjamin Lau 

Vida

Cobalt-winged Parakeets in Yasuní national park, Ecuador.

The day is short and the work much; the workers are lazy and the wages high; and the Master of the house presses.

Avot 2:20

Sinagoga de Huqoq

 

A mosaic found in the 2018 Huqoq excavation is labeled 'a pole between two' and depicts a biblical scene from Numbers 13-23. 

The images show two spies sent by Moses to explore Canaan carrying a pole with a cluster of grapes.

Direitos Humanos

Leora Batnitzky (and Anver Emon)

Akedah

"Abraham and Isaac", William Blake (1800)

Rabbi Arthur Green

(2016)

To be elsewhere - the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people. Any crossing for them means the crossing of the desert. The most comfortable houses, the best built from stones as big as the temples pillars, the most real of real estate, the most overwhelming of apartment houses will never mean more to them than a tent in the desert.

Charles Péguy, "Basic Verities"

Vida

A dolphin in the coastal waters of Musandam, Gulf of Oman 

 

Chaim Adler

A collection of cantorial gems from cantor Chaim Adler

Christine Hayes

College of Jewish Studies

Burros

Pair of donkeys in Noah's Ark scene, Huqoq Synagogue (5th century)

Iémen

Meysha (Moses) Abyad in Sana'a, Yemen (1937)

Ezequiel

"The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones", Gustave Doré (1866)

Yoram Hazony

"Wrestling With God" (2011)

Vida

Pink flamingos at Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve in Yucatán, Mexico

Aharon Appelfeld

"Writing the Holocaust through a Personal Prism" (1984)

John Zorn

"The Interpretation of Dreams" (2017)

Claude Lanzmann ע״ה

Nechushtan

"Moses and the brazen serpent", William Blake 

Médio Oriente

"The MESA Debate: The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East",

Bernard Lewis and Leon Wieseltier vs. Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens (1986)

Turim

Piazza Castello (19th Century)

Vida

Ahad Ha'am

Maná

"The Jews Gathering the Manna in the Desert", Nicolas Poussin (1639)

Mahler

Symphony No. 3, Claudio Abbado (2007)

Judaísmo

"The Contemporary Task of Judaism",  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Jerusalém

Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Jerusalem. Jeremiah mourning below, Petrus of Santo Domingo de Silos (c. 10th century)

"Fauda"

Trailer (Season 1)

Vida

A Dixie Valley toad at a laboratory in Reno, Nevada. 

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for the toad, which was only recently discovered

Selichot

Selichot at the western wall