31 de outubro de 2019

Ernest Bloch


"Suite Hébraïque" (1951)


וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֖ים מִצְרָ֑יְמָה אֵ֣ת יַעֲקֹ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ וּבֵית֖וֹ בָּֽאוּ
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household

רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah

יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר זְבוּלֻ֖ן וּבְנְיָמִֽן
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin

דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִ֖י גָּ֥ד וְאָשֵֽׁר
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

וַֽיְהִ֗י כָּל־נֶ֛פֶשׁ יֹצְאֵ֥י יֶֽרֶךְ־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שִׁבְעִ֣ים נָ֑פֶשׁ וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הָיָ֥ה בְמִצְרָֽיִם
The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt. 

Exodus 1:1-5
 

Robert Alter



Robert Alter on "Prophecy and Anti-Prophecy in the Poetry of Bialik" (2016)

30 de outubro de 2019

Dovid Bashevkin




"The Torment of Time: A Jewish Perspective on Time & Pain" (2014)
 

Vida


 
A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes national park, Rwanda

Ezequiel


"The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones", Gustave Doré (1865)

29 de outubro de 2019

Alain Finkielkraut


"JUIF?" Selon Alain Finkielkraut (2013)

Roger Williams


Roger Williams statue by Franklin Simmons

27 de outubro de 2019

Pittsburgh




"Jewish community still healing one year after mass shooting"

24 de outubro de 2019

Vida


A bearded tit stands on a reed near Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China

Veneza


Canton synagogue, Venice

23 de outubro de 2019

Hannah Szenes


Budapest (1939)

Irão




"Despite tension between Iran and Israel, Iran’s Jewish minority feels at home" (PBS)

20 de outubro de 2019

Simchat Torah


Synagogue in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem

17 de outubro de 2019

Kafka


 "Is that Kafka? 99 Finds": An Evening with Reiner Stach 

Vida


A badger in Kidderminster, UK

Marc Weitzmann


"JUIF?" Selon Marc Weitzmann (2014)

16 de outubro de 2019


אֶ֭בֶן מָאֲס֣וּ הַבּוֹנִ֑ים הָ֝יְתָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ פִּנָּֽה

The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 

Psalm 118:22
 

Jonas



"Why are You Here? Truth, Comfort, and Religious Motivation", Dovid Bashevkin

Salgueiro


 Willow tree (  (ערבה

15 de outubro de 2019


וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּנִ֥י בְכֹרִ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: Israel is My first-born son.

Exodus 4:22

Vida


An oak tree in Aggtelek national park near Jósvafő, Hungary

14 de outubro de 2019

13 de outubro de 2019

Sucot


Libyan Jews sit in a sukkah in Tripoli (c. 1920s)

Paul Mendes-Flohr


"What Constitutes Jewish Spiritual Renewal?"

10 de outubro de 2019

6 de outubro de 2019

3 de outubro de 2019

A-WA


 "Al Asad"

Vida


A frog sits on a rain-spattered lotus leaf in a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal

Jonathan Sacks


"An Unforgiving Age"

2 de outubro de 2019


Now therefore write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be My witness against the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:19
 

Ernest Bloch


"Nigun" (Itzhak Perlman)