By Marcus Freed
Spirituality for kids tries to encourage young people to find their own meanings behind Jewish practice and introduce them to the idea of “spirituality,” the soul, and our various interpretations/ understandings of G-d.
“… It seems to me that in the future we must base our life and our education on the assumption that there are just as many realities as there are human beings, and that we first have to accept this before we go any farther.” (Carl Rogers)This article deals with considerations and strategies for use in avoiding conflicts and impasses in conversations and interpersonal communication in the professional world. Fourth article in a series on communication models.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor his field,
nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass,
nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.
Our sages used to say, “The heart controls those who are wicked, but the upright control their heart.”
Purim is the festival that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from imminent danger in the Persian Diaspora. Of all the Jewish holidays, Purim is the most boisterous, and its focus on dressing up in colorful masks and costumes and holding public parades leads some to characterize it as the Jewish Mardi Gras. At the moment, Attila Seres, a Hungarian Jew, is using a “virtual Mardi Gras” to bring about the rescue of Budapest’s Jewish Quarter.
By Dr. Debbie Weissman
Miriam's moral leadership is only hinted at in the sources. Because in Numbers 20:1-3, her death is immediately followed by a scarcity of water, the Talmud in Ta'anit 9a attributes the well from which the children of Israel drew water in the desert to the merit of Miriam. Some scholars have suggested that a well is a kind of feminine image. Others have developed the connection between water and Torah, as "living waters." In this regard, Miriam would have been a source of Torah, and perhaps of a particularly feminine, nurturing kind of Torah.
