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Parshat Truma - Two religious IDF soldiers talking

Parshat T’ruma

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The notion of giving everything to HaShem illustrates the difference between the mentality of redemption and that of the exile.

Celebrating The 28th of Shvat was a Hebrew festival in ancient times, celebrating Jerusalem's salvation from destruction. Roughly a year Celebrating the 28th of Shvat - Elazar ben Matityahu gives his life killing the enemy elephant

Celebrating the 28th of Shvat

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Before Rome destroyed Jerusalem, Israel’s calendar had several festivals commemorating Maccabean victories. The story of our 26 year guerrilla war is actually so much bigger than just Ḥanukah.

Parshat Mishpatim - people coming before judges in chairs

Parshat Mishpatim

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Israel being a ‘kingdom of priests and a holy nation’ necessitates the sanctification of individual, interpersonal and national life so as to give earthly expression to the Torah’s lofty spiritual values.

Parshat Yitro - Mt. Sinai

Parshat Yitro

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The Torah is not a ‘religion’ relegated to the houses of study or prayer. Nor is it a set of rules meant to coercively modify human behavior.

Parshat Beshalaḥ - splitting the sea

Parshat Beshalaḥ

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At various historic points, a ‘low soul’ has prevented the children of Israel from successfully advancing our national aspirations and collective mission.

Ayekah by Yonah ben-Avraham - grassy hillside with a tree

Ayekah

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I keep asking myself a question or something like myself a question the being that exists in the tension between what I feel should…

Parhsat Bo - Matzot

Parshat Bo

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The more we define ourselves as the actors rather than as the characters we play, the more our characters can actually succeed at fulfilling their unique roles in the story HaShem placed us in.

Dr. Israel Eldad

Eldad

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There are few who live Nevua who blaze forward, their moonlit steps knitting and re-knitting the stars in their orbits who tread through darkness…

Fault-Line by Yonah ben-Avraham - thistles and the wall

Fault-Line

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Large, coarse hands, with nails near-black palms etched with the moving of stones and the building of houses strength melds into gentle attention at…

Parshat Vaeira - plagues on Egypt

Parshat Va’eira

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It is through the story of Israel, as it unfolds throughout time, that humanity sees history as possessing Divine meaning and purpose.