Lei

 

 

 

 "Divine Contingency: Law, Humor, Performance, and Play", Christine Hayes

Mel Brooks

 

 

Elvis Presley

 

 

"Can't Help Falling In Love"

"Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you?

 

Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be

 

Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you

 

Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be

 

Take my hand
Take my whole life too

 For I can't help falling in love with you
For I can't help falling in love with you"

 

Vida

 

 

Baby lesser crested terns on Kubbar Island, Kuwait

 

 

 

 

Photos of missing residents are posted at a makeshift memorial 

at the site of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida (on June 26, 2021)

Israel

 

 

"David Grossman on Zionism and Home"

 

Ruth Wisse

 

 

 

"Jewish Literature, Jewish Education, & Jewish Courage": A Conversation with Ruth Wisse

Pessach

 

 

Passover: Sermon by Rabbi David Wolpe (2020)

 

A 6a Praga

 

 

"Boils: The 6th Plague Unlocks the Torah", Lex Rofeberg

 

A.D. Gordon

 

 

(before 1922)

 

Vida

 

 

 

Agalychnis lemur, also known as the lemur leaf frog, in Panama

 

S. An-ski

 

Israel

 

 

 

"Mizrahi Nation" – Matti Friedman in conversation with Janusz Makuch

 

Mark Rothko

 

 

"Untitled" (1955)

 

Hungria

 

 

 

Cantor Immanuel Zucker sings Psalms at the reopening ceremony of the Rumbach Synagogue, Budapest (June 10, 2021)

Felix Salten ("Siegmund Salzmann")

 

(c. 1910)

Shoah

 

 

 

"Distant Journey", directed by Alfréd Radok - Trailer (1948)

Vida

 

 

 

An image made from video by China Central Television shows elephants, 

which had wandered 500km north from their natural habitat, resting in a forest near Kunming

Israel

 

       "Here’s the Truth About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (A Comprehensive History)", Ben Shapiro 

 

Tikvah

 

 

"Building Tikvah: A Conversation with Roger Hertog"

 

שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹת בְּשׁ֣וּב יְ֭הֹוָה אֶת־שִׁיבַ֣ת צִיּ֑וֹן הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ כְּחֹלְמִֽים 

A song of ascents. When the LORD restores the fortunes of Zion —we see it as in a dream—

אָ֤ז יִמָּלֵ֪א שְׂח֡וֹק פִּינוּ֮ וּלְשׁוֹנֵ֢נוּ רִ֫נָּ֥ה אָ֭ז יֹאמְר֣וּ בַגּוֹיִ֑ם הִגְדִּ֥יל יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עִם־אֵֽלֶּה 

our mouths shall be filled with laughter, our tongues, with songs of joy. Then shall they say among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them!”

הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הֹוָה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ שְׂמֵחִֽים 

The LORD will do great things for us and we shall rejoice.

שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הֹוָה אֶת־[שְׁבִיתֵ֑נוּ] (שבותנו) כַּאֲפִיקִ֥ים בַּנֶּֽגֶב  

Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like watercourses in the Negeb.

הַזֹּרְעִ֥ים בְּדִמְעָ֗ה בְּרִנָּ֥ה יִקְצֹֽרוּ  

They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy.

הָ֘ל֤וֹךְ יֵלֵ֨ךְ ׀ וּבָכֹה֮ נֹשֵׂ֢א מֶשֶׁךְ־הַ֫זָּ֥רַע בֹּא־יָבֹ֥א בְרִנָּ֑ה נֹ֝שֵׂ֗א אֲלֻמֹּתָֽיו   

Though he goes along weeping, carrying the seed-bag, he shall come back with songs of joy, carrying his sheaves.  

Psalm 126

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

Master of the Universe, fill my heart with love for my people, and rest for the soul.
Let me see the Creator in each and every creature, its mercy for each thing it creates.
There’s not a single drop of water or particle of dust in which your light is lacking, or that is outside your domain.
There is no creature without its creator.
Those who know this live always in joy.
Their parents are but bodies that are here today, and are tomorrow in their graves.
All their friends, all their possessions and honors, are like a passing shadow.
They are themselves like passing clouds, like Jonah’s tree.
But you – you have always existed and will always exist.
You are the only true being, the essence of all things.
Only for you are all problems solved, all challenges effortless.
There is nothing devious in you – no retribution, injustice, or fault.
Evil lives in all things temporary, not in what exists eternally.
You know why you created evil – and who are we to question your integrity?

We have only one comfort in this world – that you are our maker and that we have the power to serve you with joy, awe, and love, all our lives – and that you have given us the ability to understand such things.
Though we may not know the purpose of life, or why you sent us into this world to suffer, we understand that it is our duty to build and not to destroy, to comfort and not to torment, to bring joy rather than sorrow to your creatures.

There is only one joy: to increase and not to lessen the world’s joy.
Seek happiness, but not on account of your neighbors or family, for you are they and they are you, you are bonded, children of God.

God, guard my tongue from evil, my lips from deceit, my mind from sin.
Open my heart to your commands, let my heart seek your teaching, and let all my actions serve a higher purpose.

Those who fear God are the only ones who do not hurt each other, neither in fact nor in principle. They will never wage war against each other, and for this reason they are the symbol of peace, as it is written: “and your children’s peace shall grow.”

 

Untitled (Prayer, c. 1952)

Translation by David Stromberg

Cidadãos Normais

 

 

 "How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Murderers?", with Christopher Browning & Wendy Lower (2018)

 

Alemanha

 

"Final Account": Trailer 

 

Vida

 

 

Domesticated pigeons fly over the Syrian city of Raqqa