Bob Dylan

"Sign On the Window"

"Sign on the window says, "Lonely"
Sign on the door said, "No company allowed"
Sign on the street says, "You don't own me"
Sign on a porch says, "Three's a crowd"
Sign on a porch says that three's a crowd.

Her and her boyfriend went to California
Her and her boyfriend done changed their tune
My best friend said, "Now didn't I warn you ?
Brightoon girls are like the moon
Brightoon girls are like the moon".

Looks like a-nothing but rain
Sure gonna be wet tonight on Main Street
Hope that it don't sleet.

Built me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife, catch a rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids who call me pa
That must be what it's all about
That must be what it's all about"

 

Albert Bloch

"March of the Clowns" (1941)

Louis B. Mayer

Conversos

"Converts and Outsiders in the Talmud", Elie Wiesel

Sinai

View from the summit of Mount Sinai

Vida

A white stork takes off from a nest at sunset, Hungary

Júpiter

Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by the Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). 

The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. 

Israel

"Why I Support Israel and Why You Should Too", Bret Stephens

Shavuot

"The Torah of Kindness and Truth", a Shavuot shiur by Rabbi Sacks

Mordecai Ardon

 "Landscape with Black Sun", Mordecai Ardon (1961)

Benjamin Sommer

"The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel" (audio)

Mar Morto

Dead Sea (Photo: Stephen Shore, 2009)

Vida

Paulo

"Is Paul's Legacy Relevant Today?", E. P. Sanders

"Love is Strange" de Ira Sachs

Trailer

Reuven Rubin

"Goldfish Vendor" (1928)

Job

"Job Revisited", Elie Wiesel

Bob Dylan

"If Not For You" (1970)

"If not for you, babe, I couldn't find the door
Couldn't even see the floor
I'd be sad and blue if not for you.

If not for you, baby, I'd lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it will not be new if not for you.

If not for you, my sky would fall, rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
I'd be lost if not for you
And you know it's true.

If not for you, my sky would fall, rain would gather too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
Oh what would I do if not for you ?

If not for you, winter would have no spring
I couldn't hear the robins sing
I just wouldn't have a clue
Anyway it wouldn't ring true if not for you
If not for you, if not for you" 

Beit Shearim

Underground tombs of the Beit Shearim Necropolis

Vida

 Blue whale

Iémen

Yemenite Jew blows the shofar (1947)

Jerusalém

British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem (December 11, 1917)

Only days earlier, the city was still under the administration of the Ottoman empire, a 400-year-long occupation

Moisés

Avivah Zornberg

Yom Yerushalayim

 "Rabbi Sacks on Jerusalem"

Tanya

Sefer HaTanya (1805)

Bob Dylan

"Lay Lady Lay"

"Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen.

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you.

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead"

 

Vida

There are only 100 blue-eyed black lemurs left in the wild

William Friedkin

"The Exorcist" (Trailer)

Jerusalém

"Jerusalem From The Mount of Olives", Edward Lear

Luta

"Struggle", Elie Wiesel

Iémen

Jewish Children in the Jewish Quarter of Sana'a (1901)

R.B. Kitaj

'The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg' (1960)

Misticismo

"Rethinking Jewish Mysticism", Rachel Elior

Nova Iorque

"New York", Ben Shahn (1947)

Turquia

"Why the world is worried about Turkey" (Vox)

Vida

"Newly Unveiled Dinosaur Fossil is Best Preserved Of Its Kind"

Janina

Old Synagogue, Ioannina

"Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe" de Maria Schrader

 Trailer

Árvores

 

Planting trees on the barren hills of Jerusalem, Tu Bishvat (circa 1930)

Escuridão

"Darkness", Elie Wiesel

Tefilah

(1/2)

(2/2)

"Getting Beyond Ourselves", Shai Held

Terra

"This is the Land", Reuven Rubin

Vida

 

  A rare albino orangutan stands in an enclosure at a rehabilitation centre in Nyaru Menteng, Indonesia.

Bob Dylan

"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"

"Mama, take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin' down
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door"
 

"The Women's Balcony" de Emil Ben Shimon

Trailer

Asmahan

"Ya Touyour"

O birds
Sing of my love and chant my passion and hopes
To the one who is right beside me not paying attention to what's happening to me
I complain to him and he smiles and makes me grow fonder of him
O birds
Describe him my state of sleeplessness and sobbing

The birds sang the sweetest words from the treetops
The branches swayed from the felicity of their melodies
And my heart was infatuated
And the breeze blew gently carrying their beautiful sound
As the flowers emanated the fragrance of longing
And the brook sang along with them

The air filled with tenderness sending away my longing and disgrace
Oh how I hope his affection and love and favor will be mine

He's happy with his handsomeness and youth, devoid of sorrows
If he was in love, sleepless, feeling what I feel
He would cry from his torment and wail along with the crying birds 

 

Daniel Matt

Interview

Iémen

Yemenite Jews of Sana'a (1907)

Lag BaOmer

Bernard-Henri Lévy

 "The Genius of Judaism"

Vida

Jumping Spider

"The Wedding Plan" de Rama Burshtein

 Trailer

Gershom Scholem

"Conception of Tselem, the Astral Body in Jewish Mysticism"

Janina

 
 

Traditional "Alef" brit milah amulet made for males to protect them from "the evil eye" for 40 days after the brit. The baby's name, along with that of the father and grandfather would be listed. Kehila Kedosha Janina is proud to have the largest collection of Alefs in the world.

Tefilah

"Why Pray?", Elie Wiesel

Melila Hellner Eshed

"War as an Inner Struggle: From Rabbinic Imagination to Kabbalah"

Leo Strauss

(1/2) "Agreement'"

(2/2) "Conflict"

"Jerusalem and Athens" (1950)

Levitas

Idade Média

"From Slavery to Redemption: Crafting Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages"

Vida

Jungle crow

Joanina

Ioannina, Greece

Pardes

"Pardes & the Philosophers' Quest", Moshe Idel (1991)

Reuven Rubin

"Les Vendeurs de légumes" (1923)

Andrea Dworkin

"Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant"

Jonas

"Elie Wiesel: In the Bible - Jonah"

 

Sefirot

Tunísia

"Tunisie, une mémoire juive"

Vida

Great Horned Owl

Sinagoga de Lisboa

Primeira Pedra

Genizah do Cairo

 

"The Legacy of the Cairo Genizah", Mark Cohen & Amitav Ghosh

Bob Dylan

" It Ain't Me Babe" (1965)

Go 'way from my window
Leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'm not the one you need
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who's never weak but always strong
To protect you an' defend you
Whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every door
But it ain't me, babe
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go lightly from the ledge, babe
Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want, babe
I will only let you down
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who will promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes for you
Someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you an' more
But it ain't me, babe
No, no, no, it ain't me babe
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe

Go melt back in the night
Everything inside is made of stone
There's nothing in here moving
An' anyway I'm not alone
You say you're looking for someone
Who'll pick you up each time you fall
To gather flowers constantly
An' to come each time you call
A lover for your life an' nothing more
But it ain't me, babe
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe
 

Abraão Zacuto

 “Vasco da Gama Leaving Portugal", featuring Zacuto presenting the explorer with his astronomical tables, John Henry Amshewitz (1936)

Centelhas

"Raising the Sparks: Finding God in the Material World", Daniel Matt

R.B. Kitaj

"The Listener"

Vida

Narwhals

Rashi

"Rashi: The Greatness of Interpretation", Elie Wiesel

Iom HaAtzmaut

 

David Ben-Gurion declaring the independence of Israel beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, Tel Aviv (14 May 1948)