No one likes a whiner. Even Moses, the most humble man ever known – and surely one of the most patient – couldn’t take too much whining. Moses, who had the patience to sit on a mountain top for forty days and nights meditating and waiting for the Torah, reached his limit with the...
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May 12 and 13, 2013 Kfar Tavor to Harduf Wikiloc Maps: Kfar Tavor to Nazareth Ilit Nazareth Ilit Nazareth Ilit to Ka’abiya Ka’abiyah to Harduf Total mileage these segments: 25.4 (40.8 km) Total mileage since start at Tel Dan: 128.97 (207.5 km) With these two days of hiking I’ve now completed about 1/5 of...
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First of all, I would like to publicly thank Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, called “the spiritual leader of the haredi world.” Rabbi Shteinman gave his blessing to a proposal from United Torah Judaism politicians to bring in busloads of haredi girls to protest against Women of the Wall. As a result there were thousands...
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Today, the 28th of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar, is the day we commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967. Jerusalem today is a city physically united and spiritually divided. The Haredi want to impose their views of Torah on everyone else – no women praying in prayer shawls...
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The rituals surrounding taharat mishpacha, “family purity,” are some of the more difficult laws for many modern liberal Jews to understand. This week’s Torah portion contains the basis of many of these rules. Leviticus 15:19 is a challenge for the contemporary reader: “And if a woman has a discharge, and the discharge of her...
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April 7 and 8, 2013. On these two segments I started at the Swiss Forest, came down to Kibbutz Kinneret, made a detour through Kibbutz Deganya Bet to stop at the Galita Chocolate Shop, climbed back up to Yavna’el, where I spent the night. From Yavna’el picked up the trail again and finished at...
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