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…re to include everyone. As it is, if such a family may pick only a limited number of people to honor, everyone who does not receive an honor understands that the family was limited. However, if the family is essentially unlimited, by being able to call up more than one person at a time for an aliya, then anyone who is not called up has greater grounds to feel slighted. A second reason for wanting joint aliya is that one of the proposed honorees do…
…, a very complex distribution network. The way it operates is by a certain number of power plants producing energy, usually by burning fossil fuels, and then feeding it into the massive grid of electrical power lines. I think this is quite similar to the societal structure of the monkeys and the medieval Jewish court system, in that the majority of interactions, or in this case, power transmissions, are local, but the network is able to transmit p…
…m (14th century, Provence) in his Sefer Meisharim, 40 13-5 58:2. 13. SMa”G, 147:2-3. 14. Even HaEzer, hilkhot ketubot 83. The citation given in Kesef Mishne in Frankel’s edition is 85 but 83 seems more to the point. 15. Even HaEzer, hilkhot ketubot, 83. He also cites the Raabad and SMa”G. 16. Rosh Pereq HaMaziq, Baba Qama 32a. 17. Sefer Sha`arei Tzedeq mitokh Sifrei HaGeonim Teshuvot uFesaqim, part 2, Benei Braq Israel, 1986, sec. 42. 18. Rashba,…
…The other days of Creation are denoted, as you would expect, using ordinal numbers – second, third, and the like; but not the first day, Yom Ehad – Day One. Rashi teaches that “Day One” is to be understood as the Day of the One, the Day of God, and that God created everything in all its potential on that Day. From that day on, it follows that, as my daughter Sarah has recently begun quoting Martin Buber in the tag line to her email messages — To p…
LAND IN FLUX April 15 – June 14 2023 / Artist talk April 29, 2023, 12:45 p.m. Read the Review in the New Haven Arts Paper Dganit Zauberman- Image List + Prices Statement from the Artist: Memories, life experiences, intuitive processes, and curiosity drive my work. Early in my life, informed by my upbringing in a Kibbutz, I observed the importance of land as not only a source of life but also as a source of struggle, separation, and death. N…
Sensing Connections: A Retrospective Exhibition January to April 4, 2023 Read the review by Lucy Gellman in the New Haven Arts Paper Videos of Artist Talk During Exhibition Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six The BEKI Art Gallery is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition by Cynthia Beth Rubin entitled Sensing Connections. In works spanning decades of explorations, Rubin depicts imagined sensations of the unseeable y…
…10 Apr Chocolate Pick-Up April 10, 2022 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Pesach chocolate: Becky May is arranging a bulk order of Kosher l’Pesach Pareve Fair Trade chocolate: chips, bars, or minis. Orders received by Monday, April 4 will […] More Info…
…04 Apr Pesach Chocolate Orders Due April 4, 2022 12:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Pesach chocolate: Becky May is arranging a bulk order of Kosher l’Pesach Pareve Fair Trade chocolate: chips, bars, or minis. Orders received by Monday, April 4 will […] More Info…
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…ger: Parashiyot Aharei-Mot Qedoshim – by Maytal Saltiel, 13 Iyar 5778 – 28 April 2018 The 613: Parashat Eqev – by Ella May, 20 Av 5777 – 12 August 2017 Israel: My Positions – by Alan H. Lovins, 24 Tamuz 5776 – July 2016 Parashat BeHa`alotekha – by Noam Benson-Tilsen, 19 Sivan 5776 – June 2016 Parashat Pequdei – by Bruce Oren, 2 Adar II 5776 Parashat BeMidbar – by David Kuperstock Parashat Huqat – by Jonathan M. Freiman Parashat Toldot – by Jonatha…
