Trying Our Best - Just Like Noah Did
This week’s Torah portion Noah describes the great flood sent on Earth by the Eternal because of humanity’s sins. Only Noah and his family are saved by …
Killing Anger.
Thoughts on Parashat Bereshit.
Menachem Mirski
The Eternal approved Abel and his offering, but did not approve Cain and his offering. Cain was filled with rage; his face fell. The Eternal One …
An Ephemeral Booth or a Lasting Legacy? How Should We View Our Lives?
Artur
An Ephemeral Booth or a Lasting Legacy? How Should We View Our Lives?
Mati Kirschenbaum
During Sukkot we read the Book of Ecclesiastes, which seems to claim that human life is equally ephemeral as the Sukkot …
SEPTEMBER 2018, Beit Polska
SUKKOT
Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild
The festival of Sukkot, following on the full moon so shortly after the end of Yom Kippur and the lengthy period of repentance and meditation and teshuvah, is …
Is Progress Actually Always Progress? Thoughts on Parashat Haazinu.
Artur
Is Progress Actually Always Progress? Thoughts on Parashat Haazinu.
Menachem Mirski
They incensed Him with alien things, Vexed Him with abominations.
They sacrificed to demons, no-gods, Gods they had never known,
New ones, who came but lately, Who …
YOM KIPPUR 2018
JONAH
Rabbi Dr Walter Rothschild
My favourite part of the Book of Jonah is Chapter Five. You won't find it in the printed editions, because it is a chapter – thanks to a form of …
KOL NIDRE
Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild
We start our Day of Atonement with a strange request, one which even comes in different formats and one which has caused much confusion, not to mention hostility from those who …
Nabożeństwo Jom Kipur 18.09. 2018 Synagoga Beit Polska Kongregacja Beit Warszawa
Prowadzone przez Rabina Waltera Rothschilda oraz Szaca Henryka Szmuela Kowalskiego
Yom Kippur Prayer 18.09.2018, Beit Poland Synagogue, Beit Warszawa Congregation
Rabbi Walter Rothschild with Shatz Henryk Szmuel …
Standing Before the Heavenly Court
Mati Kirschenbaum
This week’s Torah portion, Vayelech, has the least number of verses out of all the parashot which we read throughout the year. This is because we usually read …
ROSH HASHANAH MORNING
Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild.
It happens each year, if we follow the calendar of readings from the Torah, for each individual Shabbat and then for the major festivals that are mentioned in the Torah …
EREV ROSH HASHANAH
Rabbi Walter Rothschild
The theme for the High Holy Days, the 'Yamim Nora'im', the 'Days of Awe', is at its heart a very simple question and answer:
Can one make good something bad that has …
To love is to see potential. Thoughts on Parashat Nitzavim
Artur
To love is to see potential. Thoughts on Parashat Nitzavim.
Menachem Mirski
Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. It is not in …
