This week's parashat is a double portion - Bahar & Bechukotai.
These poems are about our obligation to be stewards of the earth, to protect her from degredation. If we treat her well, she'll do likewise.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
The same evil men justifying their hate and violence are here.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
Hillel the Elder was once walking down the street with his students. His students asked him where he was headed, and he responded, “To fulfill a mitzvah from G‑d. I am going to take a bath.” They asked, “Is this really a mitzvah?”
Hillel said, “If statues of kings that are made in the likeness of flesh and blood require cleaning and polishing, how much more so our bodies, which were created in the likeness of G‑d.”
This week's parashat is a double portion, Acharei Mot and Kedoshim.
The poems for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal are about finding freedom in exile and about rejecting hateful and evil laws.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
A human mints coins from one stamp and they are all the same; but the king of kings, the Blessed Holy One, minted every human being from the stamp of Adam, the first man, and not one of them is the same as another. Therefore must each individual say, "The world was created for my sake."
(Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5) #mishnah#talmud#judaism#torah#inspirational#quote#wisdom#diversity
Man was first created as one person (Adam) to teach you that anyone who destroys a life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed an entire world; and anyone who saves a life, to have saved an entire world.
(Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5) #mishnah#talmud#torah#judaism#inspirational#quote#wisdom