Rabbi Steinsaltz

"The Wonderful Strangeness of Humans"

 

Vida

Jonah Goldberg

"Socialism, Communism and Liberal Fascism"

Meir Banai

"אהבה קצרה"

וְיֹתֵ֥ר מֵהֵ֖מָּה בְּנִ֣י הִזָּהֵ֑ר עֲשׂ֨וֹת סְפָרִ֤ים הַרְבֵּה֙ אֵ֣ין קֵ֔ץ וְלַ֥הַג הַרְבֵּ֖ה יְגִעַ֥ת בָּשָֽׂר

A further word: Against them, my son, be warned! The making of many books is without limit And much study is a wearying of the flesh. 

Ecclesiastes 12:12   

Zohar

Daniel Matt

Jonathan Sacks

"Things Judaism has taught me about life" 

בְּט֣וּב צַ֭דִּיקִים תַּעֲלֹ֣ץ קִרְיָ֑ה וּבַאֲבֹ֖ד רְשָׁעִ֣ים רִנָּֽה

When the righteous prosper the city exults; When the wicked perish there are shouts of joy. 

Proverbs 11:10

 

Vida

 

A great tit (centre) and two European greenfinches pick seeds from a withered sunflower 

during snowfalls near Pilisszentkereszt, north-west of Budapest, Hungary

Egipto

"The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat", John R. Weguelin (1886)

A priestess offers gifts of food and milk to the spirit of a cat. 
On an altar stands the mummy of the deceased, and the tomb is decorated with frescoes, urns of fresh flowers, lotus blossoms, and statuettes. 
The priestess kneels as she wafts incense smoke toward the altar. In the background, a statue of Sekhmet or Bastet guards the entrance to the tomb.

Anne Applebaum

"Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy"

Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing: the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos, at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence? Who knows whether the first astronaut who will land on the moon, confronted with a strange, weird, and grisly panorama, will feel a greater loneliness than Mr. X, moving along jubilantly with the crowd and exchanging greetings on New Year’s Eve at a public square?

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 1965
  

Dia Internacional em Memória das Vítimas do Holocausto

The Development of the "Final Solution" (Yad Vashem)

Israel

 "Three Philosophies of Three Israeli Tribes", Micah Goodman

Rosh Hashanah

"Jewish nationhood and Rosh Hashanah", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Êxodo

 "The Flight out of Egypt", Richard Dadd (c.1849)

Nathan Glazer ע״ה

Vida

Nadav Lapid

"Policeman" ("HaShoter")

As Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman says that Rabbi Yonatan says: What is the meaning of that which is written in the passage describing the splitting of the Red Sea: “And the one came not near the other all the night” (Exodus 14:20)? At that time the ministering angels desired to recite a song before the Holy One, Blessed be He. The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them: My handiwork, i.e., the Egyptians, are drowning in the sea, and you are reciting a song before Me? Apparently, God is not gladdened by the downfall of the wicked.

Sanhedrin, 39b
 

Tu Bishvat

Chicago

Saul Bellow on Chicago

Charles de Gaulle

(Yale)

Meir Banai

"גשם"

Vida

 

For 10 years, Romeo, the last known Sehuencas water frog on the planet, led a solitary life in a conservation centre in Bolivia. 

Now scientists have found him a Juliet on an expedition into Bolivia’s cloud forest.

Joshua Berman

In conversation with Rabbi Daniel Korobkin

Templo

 "The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem", Nicolas Poussin (1626)

Israel

"Nation State Law" (L'Chayim)

Êxodo

"The Exodus from Egypt", Dr. James Hoffmeier (2012)

José

"Joseph Recognized by His Brothers", Léon Pierre Urbain Bourgeois (1863)

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.

Exodus 14:21
 

Vida

A white desert flower in the Wadi Rum desert wilderness south of Amman, Jordan. 

The desert has been inhabited by many cultures, including the Nabateans who left paintings and writings on some of the rocks. Bedouins continue to live in the protected area 

Chaïm Soutine

"Side of Beef with a Calf's Head" (ca. 1923)

Kurt Weill

"Youkali - Tango Habanera", Ute Lemper

Capitão Barros Basto

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto

Jacob

"Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob", Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (c. 1640)

Tu Bishvat

"Tu Bishvat & The Crisis of Modern Identity", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Irão

Habib Elghanian

Vida

A 55 days baby Octopus

Meir Banai

 

"שער הרחמים"

Issachar Ber Ryback

"Tailors"

Elie Wiesel

"Why I Write" (2005)

Benoit Mandelbrot

França

"Vietnam and Algeria" (Yale)

Chabad

"The Rebbe: Marching Orders"

Vida

Ibex

I will pass through Egypt on that night, and I will kill every first-born in Egypt, man and animal. 
I will perform acts of judgment against all the gods of Egypt: I [alone] am God.” 

Exodus 12:12 
 

"Moses with the Burning Bush", Chagall (1966)

Alexander Korda

Ruth Wisse

"The Education of a Jewish Conservative"

"Ivanhoe" de Walter Scott

Jesus da Nazaré

 

"The Evolution of Jesus in Early Christianity", Bart D. Ehrman

Vida

 

An adult hare sits it out as ferocious winds whip up a spindrift on an exposed plateau in the Cairngorms mountains, Scotland

Robert Alter

The publication of Robert Alter’s "The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary" is a landmark achievement. 

Ten years in the making, it is the first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible.

Paul Johnson

Benoit Mandelbrot

"Mandelbrot Set"

"Moses before the burning bush", Marc Chagall (1966)

Janusz Korczak

Avinu Malkeinu

Jan Peerce

Vida

Blackbucks run in a field near Bhetnoi village in Ganjam, India

Shoah

George Steiner

God reveals his name to Moses as “I am,” from the Hebrew root ה.ו.י, “being.”
The name YHWH, however, originates in Midian, and derives from the Arabic term for “love, desire, or passion.”  

Israel Knohl

(Here)

Amos Oz

"Israeli President Rivlin eulogizes Amos Oz"

Hanukkah

"Hanukkah and Rabbinic Authority", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Robert Alter

"The Place of the Hebrew Bible in Liberal Education"

Vida

 

In 1844, the last Great Auk, a relative of puffins and razorbills, was killed on an island off the coast of Iceland

I remember that when I was growing up I was a frightened and lonely boy.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik