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Parshat Vayeira: Appearing & Disappearing
Parshat Vayeira: Appearing & Disappearing
Apparently appearances Aren’t always as they Appear: (The white silk above ones chest may make the Heart beneath it appear to be pure and innocent; Just as the dark mask over...
Nov 13, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Lech Lecha: Go on. Let it. Go!
Parshat Lech Lecha: Go on. Let it. Go!
Go on A hunch:   But before go time….   This was my position Disposition Predisposition:   Welcome to the world of the Prefix, Where everything is fixed beforehand, And only...
Nov 6, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
A Biblical Feast
A Biblical Feast
Not one of the eight women in my book club knew all the others when we began to meet. Yet we have become a sisterhood, part of a growing national phenomenon...
Nov 6, 2008
By Judy Bart Kancigor
Parshat Noach: Arkeology & Arkitecture
Parshat Noach: Arkeology & Arkitecture
Whoosh   The floodgates swing wide open   Wash   The world accosted by a storm:   Waters, knowledge, ideas, in many forms And deforms, in countless texts and textures, Some...
Oct 30, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Gathering: A Look Back
Gathering: A Look Back
Sukkot- 5769 – Israel, Jerusalem, The Old City, The Kotel I was torn – do I travel in towards the Old City of Jerusalem to celebrate, witness, and feel the aura...
Oct 30, 2008
By Rebecca Kowalsky
And These Are the Generations…
And These Are the Generations…
…אלא תולדות נח נח איש צדיק תמים היה בדורותיו These are the offspring of Noah – Noah was a righteous man in his GENERATION (Genesis 6:9) Generations is defined as a...
Oct 30, 2008
By Rebecca Kowalsky
Parshat Bereishit: A Beginners Guide to the Beginning
Parshat Bereishit: A Beginners Guide to the Beginning
Beginning words:   All beginnings are difficult –   Especially difficult beginnings, Where nothing exists before And nothing exists after if The beginning ceases to begin.   Some make ends meet:...
Oct 23, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Ha’azinu: Ear O Dynamics
Parshat Ha’azinu: Ear O Dynamics
Let me borrow a minute Please lend me your ear   (Not for keeps, don’t worry Just on loan With lots of interest But not the monetary kind)   Let us...
Oct 6, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Vayelech: The Way it Went
Parshat Vayelech: The Way it Went
We speak of unity And unity may even speak of us…   Of all the people standing before G-d All of them in the warmth and radiance That is the mystery...
Oct 2, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson
Parshat Nitzavim: High Standings
Parshat Nitzavim: High Standings
Under Stand   But never   Stand Under   A falling dream (Or bridge).   A bit standoffish is a Mexican standoff – Almost like a snob who cannot stand Anyone...
Sep 25, 2008
By Mendel Jacobson

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