No one can bring us back from the deep dark pit; here the joy of victory and songs of praise are useless… Raise your eyes in hope, not through gun sights; sing a song for love and not for wars [originally - for victories]….
Rabbi Joshua ben Perachya said: Make for yourself a teacher (rav), get yourself a study partner, and give every person the benefit of the doubt in judgment.
-Mishnah, Avot 1:6
Last week saw the opening of the new academic year in the Israel Rabbinical
The number of months, with God, is 12 in the Book of God, the day that He created the heavens and the earth… The month postponed is an increase of unbelief whereby the unbelievers go astray; one year they make it profane, and hallow it another…
-Quran 9:36
There are people with hearts of stone; there are stones with human hearts.
-The Wall, by Yossi Gamzu
Through the 70s and the 80s we spent a total of five years in Jerusalem, working and studying.
Six years shall you sow your land and gather in its yield; but in the seventh you shall let it rest and lie fallow. Let the needy among your people eat of it, and what they leave let the wild beasts eat…
-Exodus 23:10-11
The Torah, given before we entered
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.