Poway

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured in the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting, 

recounts the heroics of founding member Lori Kaye and an off-duty border patrol agent who helped disrupt the shooter

Alfred Stieglitz

"The Hand of Man", Alfred Stieglitz (1902)

Antissemitismo

"Antisemitism in Europe", Documentary (2018)

Pastor

"Shepherd with a Flute", Titian (circa 1508)

Lori Gilbert-Kaye ע״ה

Lori Gilbert-Kaye was killed this Saturday in the shooting attack at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, California

(Here)

Diane Arbus

"Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park", N.Y.C. (1962)

Alan Mittleman

 "Political Thought in Ancient and Medieval Judaism"

Vida

A close-up of a peccary in an enclosure at Paris zoo

Masada

"Tahah"

Yoram Hazony

"Israel and the Virtue of Nationalism"

Egipto

Mohamed Mujahid, head of the Egyptian mission which discovered the tomb, 

 posing for a “selfie” photograph on a cell phone inside the newly-discovered tomb of the ancient Egyptian nobleman “Khewi” 
who is believed to have been a nobleman during the Fifth Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt about 4,300 years ago. 

The tomb was discovered in Saqqara necropolis in Egypt (on April 13, 2019)

Bíblia

 

Medieval Bible page showing First Prophets with the commentaries of Rashi, David Kimhi, and Levi b. Gershon

Maror

William of Norwich

Vida

Dozens of elephants gather at Dzanga Bai in Central African Republic

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow! Grow!"

Talmud
 

Elias Canetti

	It turns out that [the Torah] has four sons: a smart son, a  stupid son, a wicked son, and one who does not know how  to ask.
	The wise son, what does he say? “What are the testimonies, statutes…?” (Deut 6:20) So you should open for him the laws of Pesah. Say to him: “[After eating] the Paschal lamb, one does not follow up with reveling (or ‘dessert’).”
	The stupid son, “saying ‘What is this?’ And you should say to him: ‘With a strong hand God took us out of Egypt’” (Exod 13:14).
	The wicked son says: “What is this service to you?” (Exod 12:26) Since he excluded himself from the whole you should exclude him from the whole. Say to him, “‘because of what God did for me’ (Exod 13:8)—me and not you, if you had been there, you would not have been redeemed.”
	And the one who doesn’t know to ask: you open with him, as it says, “you shall tell you son, etc.” (Exod 13:8)

Mekhilta of R. Ishmael, Pascha, 18 (3^rd century CE) 

Diane Arbus

"A boy stepping off the curb" (1957-58)

Paula Fredriksen

“Messy Monotheism and Interfaith Pluralism: Gods and Humans in the Roman Mediterranean”

Vida

 

A juvenile leopard cat seized by authorities during an anti-smuggling operation in Surabaya, Indonesia

Os Quatro Filhos

"The Four Sons", Arthur Szyk, Łódź, Poland (1934)

Haggadah

An illustrated page from the Sarajevo Haggadah, written in fourteenth-century Spain

Top: Moses and the Burning Bush. Bottom: Aaron's staff swallows the magicians'

A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us. Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase; otherwise in the event of war they may join our enemies in fighting against us and rise from the ground.” 

Exodus 1:9

Masada

""Meholalot" (2005)

Egipto

The Kadesh Camp 

"The throne tent of Ramesses II with winged falcons flanking his cartouche at Abu Simbel",  

W. Wreszinski, "Atlas zur altägyptischen Kulturgeschichte", Vol. II (1935)

Bernard Lazare

Vida

"The Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds (popularly known as the “Red Sea”)" 

from "Seder Agada shel pesah im pitron be-lashon Sefaradi", printed in Livorno, Italy by Solomon Belforte (1903)

וַיִּקְרָ֥א מֹשֶׁ֛ה לְכָל־זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֑ם מִֽשְׁכ֗וּ וּקְח֨וּ לָכֶ֥ם צֹ֛אן לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם וְשַׁחֲט֥וּ הַפָּֽסַח׃

Moses then summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering. 

וּלְקַחְתֶּ֞ם אֲגֻדַּ֣ת אֵז֗וֹב וּטְבַלְתֶּם֮ בַּדָּ֣ם אֲשֶׁר־בַּסַּף֒ וְהִגַּעְתֶּ֤ם אֶל־הַמַּשְׁקוֹף֙ וְאֶל־שְׁתֵּ֣י הַמְּזוּזֹ֔ת מִן־הַדָּ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּסָּ֑ף וְאַתֶּ֗ם לֹ֥א תֵצְא֛וּ אִ֥ישׁ מִפֶּֽתַח־בֵּית֖וֹ עַד־בֹּֽקֶר׃

Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts. None of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning. 

וְעָבַ֣ר יְהוָה֮ לִנְגֹּ֣ף אֶת־מִצְרַיִם֒ וְרָאָ֤ה אֶת־הַדָּם֙ עַל־הַמַּשְׁק֔וֹף וְעַ֖ל שְׁתֵּ֣י הַמְּזוּזֹ֑ת וּפָסַ֤ח יְהוָה֙ עַל־הַפֶּ֔תַח וְלֹ֤א יִתֵּן֙ הַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית לָבֹ֥א אֶל־בָּתֵּיכֶ֖ם לִנְגֹּֽף׃

For when the LORD goes through to smite the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and the LORD will pass over the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home. 

Exodus 12:21-23
   

Páscoa

"The Story We Tell", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Mértola

Mértola, Portugal

1. Select a sheep (צאן) for the family
2. Slaughter the pesach (הפסח)
3. Take hyssop, dip it in the (animal) blood and smear it on the lintel and two doorposts
4. Do NOT go out until dawn
5. The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians and will see the blood on the doorposts 
6. The LORD will pesach (פסח) on the door 
7. The LORD will not give the destroyer (משחית) the ability to enter your house to smite (you?)

Exodus 12:21-23 
Here

Hissopo

Hyssop

Vida

 

Rare egrets and herons during breeding season in Dandong, Liaoning province, China

"The Angel of Death and the First Passover", Charles Foster (1897)

Chaim Adler

"אשת חיל"

Páscoa

"Passover - The Four Freedoms", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Seder

Masada

"Yechida"

Vida

The Homo floresiensis ‘hobbit’ skull compared with a modern human skull

Fatebenefratelli Hospital

Rome, Italy

Maimónides

Panelists: Rabbi Harold Sutton, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Dr. Moshe Halbertal

A granite stone from the area of mount Sinai showing what seems to be a depiction of a bush, 

created naturally by a concentration of manganese oxide which forms into this shape in the rock

Venezuela

Over the past decade, as Venezuela’s national emergency has dragged on, 70 percent of the Jews of Caracas have left. For the 6,000 or fewer who have stayed, life is precarious. They are vigilant about security, cautious about where they go in the city and when. Speaking to three young men in Hebraica, Caracas’s Jewish community center, I am struck by how chillingly relaxed they are. “All three of us have been kidnapped,” one of them tells me. “They grab you, ram your car, or put a gun on you, and then keep you in one of those safe houses for a few hours while your family pays up. I know it sounds crazy, but it becomes less dramatic once you’ve lived with the threat for long enough. We call it the Caracas Kidnap Express.”

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, "Jewish Review of Books"
Here

Cruzadas

"Crusades: Holy Land", BBC (Episode 1)

Shai Held

Discussing the Book of Deuteronomy

Vida

 

The Marca’s marmoset, a largely unobserved Brazilian monkey, is vulnerable to extinction due to deforestation in Brazil, 

according to new evidence discovered by a University of Salford PhD student

Rembrandt

"Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing" (1662)

Grécia

"Introduction to Ancient Greek History" (1), Professor Donald Kagan (2008)

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have acquired a child through God”.

Genesis 4:1
 

Israel

 

2,000-year-old oil lamp sherd decorated with a nine-branched menorah discovered at an excavation near Tel Beer Sheva

Quite often a man finds himself in a crowd of strangers. He feels lonely. No one knows him, no one cares for him, no one is con-cerned about him. It is an existential experience. He begins to doubt his own ontological worth. This leads to alienation from the crowd surrounding him. Suddenly someone taps him on the shoulder and says, “Aren’t you Mr. So-and-so? I have heard so much about you.” In a fraction of a second his awareness changes. What brought about the change? The recognition by somebody, the word!

 “The Community,” Tradition (Spring 1978), Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik

Jacob Blaustein

Vida

Cloth bags containing bats hang inside a fridge prior to their awakening 

after winter hibernation at a rescue centre in Minsk

Universidade

"Can the Universities be Saved?", Peter Berkowitz, Elliot Kaufman, and Jonathan Haidt

"Nadav and Avihu are consumed by the fire", drawing by M. de Brunhoff (1904)

Mente

"The Tides of Mind", David Gelernter

Masada

"Tirzah"

I affirm that Franz Kafka, Doctor of Law and draftsman at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute for Bohemia in Prague, suffers from digestive disorders, low body weight, and a series of nervous problems urgently requiring at least a four week systematic course of treatment in a well-directed institute. He requires at least a month's vacation for this purpose.

Dr. Siegmund Kohn, General Practitioner

Amor

Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Vida

A spider on a leaf in west Borneo, Indonesia

Israel

 

Rare seal impression from 8th century BCE, bearing the name "Nathan-Melech", 

found in dig at large Iron Age administrative center in Jerusalem’s City of David.

Nathan-Melech is named in 2 Kings as an official in the court of King Josiah