Daily Kavanah – Thursday, July 2, 2020
Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof. — Leviticus 25:10 In its original context, this verse—and the word for [...]
Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof. — Leviticus 25:10 In its original context, this verse—and the word for [...]
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer We’ve seen these words a lot of late, painted on signs carried through the [...]
The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets” (Exod. 32:17). Do not read, “incised,” (harut), rather [...]
Portions of this kavanah originally appeared on MyJewishLearning.com. Whether you heard it in Spaceballs or learned it in Hebrew school, “Let My people go” has been [...]
Rabbi Menachem Mendl of Kotsk teaches that we call Shavuot zman matan Torateinu—the time of the giving of the Torah, to center the giving [...]
Vision looks inward and becomes duty, outward & becomes aspiration, upward and becomes faith. —Rabbi Stephen Wise Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav offers a similar teaching, offering [...]
Rabbi Shimon used to say: There are three crowns–the crown of the Torah, the crown of the priesthood, and the crown of kingship, [...]
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that [...]
The poet Yehuda Amichai writes: A hymn of remembrance for those who died in war. Even the remembering generation dwindles and dies, half [...]
According to urban legend, Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, [...]