Shabbat BaMidbar: Standing Together

  כל ישראל ערבין זה בזה kol yisrael arevin zeh bazeh All Israel are guarantors, each for each other שאו את ראש כל עדת בני ישראל. אין עלויין של ישראל אלא בקיום התורה, ועל כן אחז הכתוב לשון שאו שהוא לשון כולל “take a census of the entire assembly of the Jewish people, etc.” TheContinue reading “Shabbat BaMidbar: Standing Together”

Shabbat Miketz: the courage to continue to dream

Dreams, and their interpretation, are a major subject of ancient Jewish inquiry, as anyone who has ever studied Talmud and other rabbinic texts has seen. The mysterious state in which we spend so much of our lives seems that it must somehow be connected to our reality. Thus, theories abound:  One who sees a figContinue reading “Shabbat Miketz: the courage to continue to dream”