Gratitude as a Jewish value
Thoughts on parashat Ki Tavo
Menachem Mirski
What are the Jewish values? Typically, when this question is raised, the following values are mentioned: devotion to live in community (Israel), education (Torah), governance …
Between collectivism and individualism
Thoughts on parashat Ki Teitzei
Menachem Mirski
I visited Poland over the last few weeks to perform my dad’s funeral and to help my mother to find herself living in new circumstances, without …
Barry Cohen’s Opening the Drawer: The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews – webinar
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Beit Polska and Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland present a new web series
Barry Cohen's Opening the Drawer: The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews
with photographs by Witold Krassowski
Are there any Polish Jews? This …
The importance of human experience
Thoughts on parashat Ekev
Menachem Mirski
This week's Torah portion includes a beautiful vision of the Promised Land, spoken through the mouth of Moses on the eve of its conquest:
For the LORD your …
Is there a general rule of how we should deal with evil? Should we fight back, respond with poker face or with doing good to an evildoer, hoping that he will become aware of the …
The Roving Eye and the Wandering Heart
Thoughts on parashat Shelach
Menachem Mirski
Reason, feelings, senses… Since antiquity philosophers, thinkers and writers have wandered about these notions relating to intellectual and spiritual phenomena. What should we follow and …
To Share the Sparks of Divine Wisdom
Thoughts on Parashat Beha’alotecha
Menachem Mirski
When we look around at the life of our society, we often wonder why these or those problems and injustices take place. We find answers …
On “moral superiority”
Thoughts on Parashat Nasso
Menachem Mirski
Why do people need religion and what is it for? From the traditional, moral perspective the main goal of religion is to provide individuals with the fundamental distinction between …
Life sometimes puts us in difficult and complicated situations, in which we say to ourselves "it will be ok", and then it turns out that what we feared the most becomes reality.
