Babilónia

 

An earring found during an excavation at Mount Zion is cited as evidence of Babylonian conquest of city in 586 BCE

Reuven Hammer ע״ה

Vida

 

Newly hatched loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) make their way to the sea at Cirali Beach in Kemer district Antalya, Turkey

Purple Mountains

"All My Happiness is Gone"

"Friends are warmer than gold when you're old
And keeping them is harder than you might suppose
Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go
Some of them were once people I was happy to know

Mounting mileage on the dash
Double darkness falling fast
I keep stressing, pressing on
Way deep down at some substratum
Feels like something really wrong has happened
And I confess I'm barely hanging on

All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone

Ten thousand afternoons ago
All my happiness just overflowed
That was life at first and goal to go
Me and you and us and them
And all those people way back when
All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know
You know

It's not the purple hills
It's not the silver lakes
It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates
It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon
Where nothing's wrong and no one's asking
But the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping
No way to last out here like this for long

'Cause everywhere I go, I know
Everywhere I go, I know

All my happiness is gone
All my happiness is gone
It's all gone somewhere beyond
All my happiness is gone"

Samuel Bak

"Passing"

David Berman ע״ה

Tisha B'Av

"Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem", Francesco Hayez (1867)

Kafka

National Library archival expert and Humanities Collection Curator Stefan Litt shows drawings by novelist Franz Kafka, during a press conference in the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2019. Hundreds of letters, manuscripts, journals, notebooks, sketches and more - handwritten by Brod and Kafka - have been transferred to the National Library of Israel, following orders by Israeli and Swiss courts to open vaults in Zurich, which had stored the materials for decades. These materials, part of Max Brod's literary estate, have now been returned to Israel and have arrived at the National Library in Jerusalem, in accordance with Brod's wishes. 

 

Maimónides

"Rambam's Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Vida

A tiger cooling in water in Ranthambore national park, India

Tisha b'Av

"Tisha b'Av - The Miracle of Jewish Memory", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Amsterdão

Illustration of a Portuguese Jewish funeral in Amsterdam, Bernard Picart (18th-century)

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. 

וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יךָ שַׁלַּ֤ח אֶת־בְּנִי֙ וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִי וַתְּמָאֵ֖ן לְשַׁלְּח֑וֹ הִנֵּה֙ אָנֹכִ֣י הֹרֵ֔ג אֶת־בִּנְךָ֖ בְּכֹרֶֽךָ  

I have said to you, “Let My son go, that he may worship Me,” yet you refuse to let him go. Now I will slay your first-born son.’” 

Exodus 4:22-23

Masada

"Karaim"

Antissemitismo

Rabbi Sacks on worldwide antisemitism (House of Lords, 20th June 2019)

Vida

Sage grouse

Aarão

The Tomb of Aaron the High Priest in Jordan

Marrocos

Temple Beth-El in Casablanca, Morocco

Salomão

"The Judgment of Solomon", Valentin de Boulogne (1625)

רָאִ֥יתִי עֲבָדִ֖ים עַל־סוּסִ֑ים וְשָׂרִ֛ים הֹלְכִ֥ים כַּעֲבָדִ֖ים עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ

I have seen slaves on horseback, and nobles walking on the ground like slaves. 

Ecclesiastes 19:7