By: Ari Wonsover and Gabriel Shnaider “Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, every man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by responding for his own life; life can only be answered by being […]
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By: Mato Wexler Sukkot is one of the three holy days, on which the pilgrimage to Jerusalem is traditionally customary, and in which the Jewish families and communities of the world meet under the same temporary roof for a week. Of course, the fact that it is temporary does not prevent us from wanting to
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By: Romi Morales In Yom Kippur, Am Israel receives one of the greatest gifts that could be offered to human beings: the opportunity to focus on forgiveness, after making a profound and authentic process of introspection. This is interesting, because not for all people this means the same thing. There are those who think that
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By: Romi Morales NOAH’S STORY AS AN OPENING METAPHOR According to our sources, many years after God created the world, there was a moment when humanity reached unacceptable levels of violence and immorality. So cruel did human beings become that God saw no other option but to eradicate humanity and the species from the earth,
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By: Tomás Pollak, Rosh Chinuch Dromi, Virtual Machon 2020. Note: the word “vision” has two different meanings within this essay. The capitalized version (Vision), refers to the essence of our tnuot, consisting of both our “DNA” and the non-capitalized version. On the other hand, the non-capitalized version (vision), refers to the utopia that we seek