Archive for May 2022
TEXTURES IN TIME – B’HUKOTAI Laws engraved in Our Heart.
G’vurah in Hod in the Torah cycle. adapted from Meta Parshiot by R David Wolfe-Blank and The Living Torah by R Aryeh Kaplan SYNOPSIS Blessings and the Curses Every well-planned…
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Let’s greet the new moon of Sivan and attune to its uniqueness and receive timely wisdom. We will learn the potent Hassidic text Sefer B’nai Issachar in English translation.
Monday MAY 30 5 pm – 8 pm
TEXTURES IN TIME – B’HAR; From the Mountaintop
This Torah portion points the way to achieve a proper balance between human culture and Earth. You might even say that this parsha represents the ideals of Torah ecology. It begins with a wonderful idea. A whole year off for Earth! I Shabbat year! A rest year a sabbatical. Call it Sh’mittah. No farming! And, every fifty years, a jubilee year. A Yovel. A super Sh’mittah! Sh’mittah sqaured. Two years off for Earth. Ownership reversion. Every fifty years the land goes back to its original owners
Read MoreTEXTURES IN TIME – EMOR, SAY
COUNTING THE COUNT, CIRCLES IN CIRCLES adapted from Meta-Parshyot 5755 by R David Wolfe-Blank, Bnai Yisaskhar, The Living Torah R Aryeh Kaplan, with art by Barbara Mendes 1) Reflections on…
Read MoreTEXTURES IN TIME – BNAY YISASKHAR ON IYAR, THE MONTH OF THE TAURUS BULL & GNOSIS
Therefore, the permutation that is hinted at by means of the verse, “Yithallel Hamithallel Heskel V’yadua”, “Let the one who glories; glory, be conscious, and know” – when you contemplate all this you will understand that this month, in which the permutation mentioned above illuminates, is a treasure designated for deep understanding.
Read MoreTEXTURES IN TIME – K’DOSHIM BE HOLY
The substance of each of the 10 Commandments is repeated here, and a new singularity, an essence of Torah’s words, is articulated in the first sentence: K’doshim t’h’yu, Be holy.
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