by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 29, 2023 | Passover
By Rabbi Elie Mischel Have you ever walked with a child and had the following experience? You are on the way to school, or it is time to leave the park and go home. But whereas you are walking briskly, conscious of the time and where you have to be next, your...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2023 | Faith, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz The story is told of a righteous Jew who decides that he doesn’t want to be poor any longer. He goes out to a mountaintop and prays to God. “God, what is a thousand years to you?” he calls out. A booming voice answers, “A thousand years is...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2023 | Song of Songs
Song of Songs is a poetic masterpiece. It has captivated readers for centuries with its sensual and intense language. Written by King Solomon, the book uses the metaphor of an estranged lover yearning for a former intimacy to describe the longing of the Jewish people...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2023 | Passover, Song of Songs
Song of Songs, read on the holiday of Passover, is written as a love story between a woman and her beloved. It describes a romantic relationship, often using very sensual language. At first glance, it seems like such a book has no place among the other books of the...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2023 | Repentance, Song of Songs
By Dina Cohn A man who had been brought to England on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that saved Jewish children from Nazi Germany, once recounted a story that happened happened at the orphanage where he grew up on an Israeli radio station. One day, a thrilling...
