Purim

 

 

"Finding God in the Book of Esther", Jon Levenson

 

Aleph

 

 

 

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at Bnei Akiva Schools of Toronto (2016)

 

Sefarditas

 

 

 

Aquatint of the interior of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London, after a watercolour by Isaac Mendes Belisario (1817)

Purim!

 

 

 

People dressed as Lego medical workers walk past shops in Jerusalem on February 24, 2021, 

a day before the Jewish holiday of Purim

Jacob

 

 

"Jacobs Dream", Rembrandt (1644)

Espinosa

 

 

"Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die", Steven Nadler

Vida

 

 

African bush elephant

 

Purim

 

 

"The Disdain of Mordechai", Jean-François de Troy

 

Marc Zvi Brettler

 

 

"On Being a Jewish Biblical Scholar"

 

Egipto

 

 

"A View from Ancient Egypt", Edward Bleiberg

 

Purim

 

"Esther", Jean-François Portaels (circa 1869)
 

Rabbi David Wolpe

 

"Moments of Connection"
 

Israel

 

 

"The Collapse of the Israeli Left”, Shany Mor  

 

Vida

 

 

Two Oriental or Indian ratsnakes

Yiddish

 

 

 

The folklorist Zusman Kisselhof recording Yiddish songs in a shtetl in Kremenets, Ukraine (1912)

 

Giacomo Meyerbeer

 

 

"Coronation March", from "Le Prophète" (1849)

 

Israel

 

 

An Israeli soldier prays at the Wailing Wall, Micha Bar-Am (1967)
 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 

 

"What Jews Believe About the Afterlife" 

 

Sinagoga Wolpa

 

  

The Wołpa Synagogue was a Synagogue in the town of Wołpa (alternative spellings: Wolpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, Woupa or Voupa) near Białystok, Poland, now in Western Belarus. It was reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the wooden synagogues of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a "masterwork" of wooden architecture. It was burnt by the Germans during the Second World War. 

 

Volodymyr-Volynsky (Ludmir)

 

 

An–ski (1912/1914)
 

Vida

 

Eurasian red squirrel
 

Rabbi David Wolpe

 

"Yom Kippur: the Dreams of Others" (2020)
 

Sigmund Freud

 

Sigmund Freud seated in his study (1937)
 

Arnold Schönberg

 

"Moses and Aaron" (2016)
 

Giacomo Meyerbeer

 

(1865)
 

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.  

Judah Halevi  

 

 

Lincoln Square Synagogue, NY
 

Vida

 

Larval Lionfish
 

Jan Grabowski

 

 

"The Holocaust in Poland: New Questions, New Issues, New Sources" (2021)

Pissarro

 

 

"Landscape at Pontoise" (1873)

Simon Schama

 

 

 

"The world in 2021 - What lessons does the past hold for our future?"

 

Israel

 

Negev Desert Tortoise
 

 

 

A parcel-gilt silver and enamel Torah shield, signed and dated in Hebrew by Elimelech Tzoref (1782)
 

 

כִּ֤י תִקְנֶה֙ עֶ֣בֶד עִבְרִ֔י שֵׁ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים יַעֲבֹ֑ד וּבַ֨שְּׁבִעִ֔ת יֵצֵ֥א לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖י חִנָּֽם

When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment.

Exodus 21:2-3

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski ז״ל

 

 

Beastie Boys

 

"Make Some Noise" (2011)

Lucy S. Dawidowicz

 

"Holocaust & The Historians" (1982)
 

Jan Grabowski

 

 

"Bystanders and the Holocaust in Poland" (2018)  

 

Vida

 

 

 

An Angolan lion looks on from its enclosure in the Attica zoological park in Spata, near Athens, in January 

 

 

אָבִֽינוּ מַלְכֵּֽנוּ כַּלֵּה דֶּֽבֶר וְחֶֽרֶב וְרָעָב וּשְׁבִי וּמַשְׁחִית וְעָוֹן וּשְׁמַד מִבְּ֒נֵי בְרִיתֶֽךָ

Our Father, Our King! remove pestilence, sword, famine, captivity, destruction, [the burden of] iniquity and religious persecution from the members of Your covenant.

Avinu Malkeinu

Freud

 

The Freud family's Hanukkah Lamp
 

Marc Chagall

 

"Autumn in the Village" (1939-45)
 

Fran Lebowitz

 

 

Martin Scorsese & Fran Lebowitz Discuss "Pretend It’s A City"

 

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה כְּתֹ֨ב זֹ֤את זִכָּרוֹן֙ בַּסֵּ֔פֶר וְשִׂ֖ים בְּאָזְנֵ֣י יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַ כִּֽי־מָחֹ֤ה אֶמְחֶה֙ אֶת־זֵ֣כֶר עֲמָלֵ֔ק מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Inscribe this in a document as a reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven!” 

Exodus 17:14

 

Hillel Halkin

 

Hillel Halkin in conversation with Prof. Ruth Wisse
 

Vida

 

 

 

Nubian ibex roam the streets of Mitzpe Ramon in the south of Israel during the national lockdown

 

Rabbi David Wolpe

 

 

Kol Nidrei Sermon (2020)

 

Leon Kass

 

 

 

"Founding God’s nation and the meaning of Exodus", with Yuval Levin

Sholem Aleichem

 

"Ven ikh bin Rotshild"
 

Argaman

 

 

 

Israeli researchers have found three textile scraps near the southern tip of Israel colored 

with the biblically described “argaman” royal purple dye, and dated them to the era of King David (c. 1000 BCE)  

 

Família

 

(1/2)

(2/2)

 "The Art of the Jewish Family", Laura Arnold Leibman (2018)

Sinai

 

"Mount Sinai", David Roberts (1839)
 

Vida