Pragas

 

 

"The Tenth Plague", Daniel Reifman

 

Vida

 

 

 

This image from footage taken with a camera trap in December 2020 

shows a young female Amur leopard with three cubs in the Land of the Leopard National Park 

in the far-eastern Primorye region of Russia on the border with China

 

"Babyn Yar. Context" de Sergey Loznitsa

 

 

 

Boris Drachenfels

 

Akedah

 

 

"The Sacrifice of Isaac", Yitzhak Frenkel (1920)

 

Viena

 

 

 

"Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial" also known as the "Nameless Library" in Judenplatz, Vienna

 

Trauma

 

 

 

"Trauma and Torah", Rabbi David Wolpe (Passover Service)

 

Israel

 

 

"Until the End", Eyal Golan & Sarit Hadad

 

Jerusalém

 

 

 

"Back in Time to the Days of the Second Temple in Jerusalem"

 

Vida

 

 

A blue tit in Victoria Park, Bath

 

Páscoa!

 

 

Seder

 

 

"Jews Celebrating Passover", Lubok, Ukraine (19th century)

Rabbi Arthur Green

 

 

"Reflections on God, Life, and Love"

 

Taamei HaMikra

 

    

Cantillation Signs: a quick review

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 

 

 

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, (January 2020)

 

Marranos

 

 

"The Last Marranos" (1990) 

 

 

בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר חַיָּב אָדָם לִרְאוֹת אֶת עַצְמוֹ כְאִלּוּ הוּא יָצָא מִמִּצְרַיִם

In each and every generation, a person is obligated to see themselves as if they have left Egypt

Mishnah Pesachim 10:5

Vida

 

 

 

A male houbara bustard dances in order to attract females for mating in the United Arab Emirates’ al-Dhafra desert

S.Y. Agnon

 

 

"The Plagues in the Work of S.Y. Agnon", Jeffrey Saks

 

"Mah Nishtanah"

 

Emmanuel Levinas

 

 

"Absent God - Emmanuel Levinas and the Humanism of the Other" (2014) 

 

Páscoa

 

 

"No Chametz at the Seder", Rabbi David Wolpe

 

Zohra el Fassia

 

 

"Wahd Lghziyel"

 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 

 

"Why is this Passover Different Than All Others?" (2020)

 

Vida

 

 

 

Migrating cranes reflected in the waters of the Hula Lake conservation area, 

north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel

Páscoa

 

 

"Seder: a Roadmap For Ritual", Mark Gerson

 

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

 

 

"The Avoda of Erev Yom Hakippurim" (1976)

 

Salim Halali

 

 

"Je t'appartiens" (c. 1945)

 

Corona Vírus

 

 

"Moments of Connection with Rabbi Wolpe"

 

Arthur Green

 

 

"Judaism for the World: A Neo-Hasidic Perspective"

 

Rembrandt

 

 

"Two Jews in Discussion" (1642)

Vida

 

 

Black-legged kittiwake nesting in Newcastle city centre

 

Páscoa

 

 

"A Passover Seder", Elie Wiesel

 

Bíblia

 

 

 

"The Bible With and Without Jesus", Marc Zvi Brettler & Amy-Jill Levine

 

 

 

Salvia Palaestina

 

Ester

 

 

"Esther: Putting on the Style", Edward Greenstein

 

Zohra el Fassia

 

 

"Sidi Hbibi"

 

מִן־הַמֵּצַר קָרָאתִי יָּהּ עָנָנִי בַמֶּרְחָב יָהּ

From the narrow place [“metzar”] I call to You, God; answer me in Your expansiveness, God!

Psalm 118:5

Vida

 

 

 

Frogspawn and frog in the Barbican wildlife garden in London, England

 

"Never Again Is Now"

 

Job

 

 

 

"When Bad Things Happen to Good People", Micah Goodman

 

 

"Moses Chooses the Seventy Elders", Jan Luyken (1684) 

 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 

 

"Happiness in the Jewish Perspective" (2010)

אִ֣ישׁ רֵ֭עִים לְהִתְרֹעֵ֑עַ וְיֵ֥שׁ אֹ֝הֵ֗ב דָּבֵ֥ק מֵאָֽח

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24

Yoel Teitelbaum

 

 

 

"The Political Theology of R. Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe", Shaul Magid

Vida

 

 

 

A peacock takes a flight at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, India

Kafka

 

 

"Kafka’s Last Trial", Matti Friedman & Benjamin Balint

 

Pérsia

 

 

 

"Esther and the Historical Persian Royal Harem", Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

 

כִּ֤י אֶ֥ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֶאֱהַ֣ב יְהוָ֣ה יוֹכִ֑יחַ וּ֝כְאָ֗ב אֶת־בֵּ֥ן יִרְצֶֽה

For whom the LORD loves, He rebukes, As a father the son whom he favors.

Proverbs 3:12

Caraítas

 

Karaite Synagogue in Ramla, Israel

 

Manfred Gerstenfeld ז״ל

 

 

 

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן מֶֽה־עָשָׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־הֵבֵ֥אתָ עָלָ֖יו חֲטָאָ֥ה גְדֹלָֽה

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?”

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַהֲרֹ֔ן אַל־יִ֥חַר אַ֖ף אֲדֹנִ֑י אַתָּה֙ יָדַ֣עְתָּ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם כִּ֥י בְרָ֖ע הֽוּא

Aaron said, “Let not my lord be enraged. You know that this people is bent on evil.

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לִ֔י עֲשֵׂה־לָ֣נוּ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵלְכ֖וּ לְפָנֵ֑ינוּ כִּי־זֶ֣ה ׀ מֹשֶׁ֣ה הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הֶֽעֱלָ֙נוּ֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְנוּ מֶה־הָ֥יָה לֽוֹ

They said to me, ‘Make us a god to lead us; for that man Moses, who brought us from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him.’

וָאֹמַ֤ר לָהֶם֙ לְמִ֣י זָהָ֔ב הִתְפָּרָ֖קוּ וַיִּתְּנוּ־לִ֑י וָאַשְׁלִכֵ֣הוּ בָאֵ֔שׁ וַיֵּצֵ֖א הָעֵ֥גֶל הַזֶּֽה

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off!’ They gave it to me and I hurled it into the fire and out came this calf!” 

Exodus 32:21-24

Vida

 

 

An Andean condor

 

Bagdade

 

 

"The Jews of Baghdad"

Purim

 

 

"The Book of Esther as Comedy", Adele Berlin

Akedah

 

 

 

"Abraham leading Isaac to Sacrifice", Domenico Zampieri (1602)

 

כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ בָּ֣א אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֣ן לָ֑ךְ לֹֽא־תִלְמַ֣ד לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת כְּתוֹעֲבֹ֖ת הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָהֵֽם

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.

לֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֣א בְךָ֔ מַעֲבִ֥יר בְּנֽוֹ־וּבִתּ֖וֹ בָּאֵ֑שׁ קֹסֵ֣ם קְסָמִ֔ים מְעוֹנֵ֥ן וּמְנַחֵ֖שׁ וּמְכַשֵּֽׁף

Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer,

וְחֹבֵ֖ר חָ֑בֶר וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל אוֹב֙ וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים

one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.

כִּֽי־תוֹעֲבַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה כָּל־עֹ֣שֵׂה אֵ֑לֶּה וּבִגְלַל֙ הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣ת הָאֵ֔לֶּה יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ מוֹרִ֥ישׁ אוֹתָ֖ם מִפָּנֶֽיךָ

For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to the LORD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the LORD your God is dispossessing them before you. 

Deuteronomy 18:10

Jacob

 

 

"Jacobs Dream", Rembrandt (1606)

 

Rabbi Yosef B. Soloveitchik

 

 

 

"The Key is Under Father's Head": Historical Memory and Honoring Parents (1953)

Vida

 

 

An American Bison (buffalo)