Francesca Woodman

Untitled (1978)

Toledo

The Synagogue of "El Tránsito" in Toledo, built by Samuel ha-Levi (circa 1356)

Charles Krauthammer

 "Things That Matter" (2013)

Vida

A wild pansy in Russia’s Ivanovo region

Jerusalém

"Till We Have Built Jerusalem", Adina Hoffman

Magen David

Lantern Suspended on the Occasion of a Wedding (1836)

The peoples hear, they tremble; 
Agony grips the dwellers in Philistia. 
Now are the clans of Edom dismayed; 
The tribes of Moab—trembling grips them; 
All the dwellers in Canaan are aghast. 
Terror and dread descend upon them; 
Through the might of Your arm they are still as stone — 
Till Your people cross over, O LORD, Till Your people cross whom You have ransomed. 

Exodus 15:14-16
 

Joe Dassin

"Et l'amour s'en va" (1977)

Bahrain

Manama synagogue, Bahrain

Rei David

Rabbi David Wolpe

Vida

Baja blue rock lizard

 

Rebeca

"Isaac Blessing Jacob", Govert Flinck (1638)

 

Avivah Zornberg

Hebrew College Commencement 2019/ 5779

"Sheep Under Clouds", Harold Feinstein (1980's)

Jonathan Sacks

"Things Life Has Taught Me About Judaism"

Tefilah

"Qu’appelle-t-on prier?", Delphine Horvilleur

תַּ֗חַת אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹא־עָבַ֙דְתָּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ בְּשִׂמְחָ֖ה וּבְט֣וּב לֵבָ֑ב מֵרֹ֖ב כֹּֽל

Because you would not serve the LORD your God in joy and gladness over the abundance of everything

Deuteronomy 28:47

(Sefaria)

Vida

Strawberry poison-dart frog

Fustat

(c.1906)

Talmude

Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

Maná

"The Israelites Collecting Manna from Heaven", Rudolf von Ems (13th century)

Leon Klinghoffer

Margaret Dunlop Gibson

(1920)

França

Marc Weitzmann (2018)

Vida

 

A cylinder anemone, Cerianthus membranacea, off the coast of Samandag in Hatay province, Turkey

Geniza do Cairo

Hidden wisdom and concealed treasure, what is the use of either?

Ben Sira

Noiva

"The Little Jewish Bride", Rembrandt (1638)

Agnes Smith Lewis

(1920)

Húmus

"Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi's Basic Hummus"

Israel

"70 Faces of Israel -- Relationship of American Jews and Israel", Daniel Gordis

Vida

 

The world’s fattest parrot, the endangered kākāpō, could be wiped out by fungal infection

Seven of the birds native to New Zealand have died, with just 142 adults remaining

Sinai

"What Happened at Sinai?", Benjamin D. Sommer

Solomon Schechter

Etching by Hermann Struck (1913) 

Israel

"

"Fighting back against attacks on Israel’s legitimacy", Ben-Dror Yemini 

Sotah

"The Sotah ritual", Jan Luyken (18th century)

Shavuot

"Shavuot - The Treasure from Sinai", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

A person may say: “Desire, honour, and the like are bad paths to follow and remove a person from the world; therefore I will completely separate myself from them and go to the other extreme.” As a result, he does not eat meat or drink wine or take a wife or live in a decent house or wear decent clothing…. This too is bad, and it is forbidden to choose this way.

Maimonides, "Mishneh Torah", Hilchot Deot 3:1

Vida

 

An François’ langur with its young in the Mayanghe national nature reserve in Guizhou province, China

Rute

"Boaz and Ruth", Rembrandt (1640)

Talmude

"The Talmud as Icon: How an Ancient Oral Text came to embody Judaism", Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

Tunísia

Two Jewish girls in traditional clothes, Tunis, Tunisia (circa 1906)

Shavuot

"The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai", Gustave Doré (1866)

D-Day

 

US Army troops waded ashore at Omaha Beach in northwestern France on June 6, 1944

Kidush

 Kiddush Cup, Ottoman Empire (1803)

Vida

A frog in a pond in a park in Moscow

Ezequiel

Ezekiel’s Vision, Bernard Picart

Freud

“The Jew Survives it!” (1913)

Paul Mendes Flohr

"The Buber-Scholem Controversy on How to Study Hasidism"

Aleppo Codex

Page from the Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy

Jerusalém

Yom Yerushalayim

Rimonim

Fredericus Becker, Sr., Bratislava, silver (1816)

Vida

Poppy flowers in bloom in Bakhchisaray district, Crimea 

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

Thelonious Monk