Bullying is as old as the mountains. The Torah is full of accounts of yucky people bullying others, and manipulating them, and obsessing over honor and ‘keeping up appearances’, with Lavan and Esav coming to mind. I’d love to pretend that bullying, manipulation, murderous rage fits – yeah, that was only happening 4,000 years ago… […]
It’s been a very intense few weeks in my own dalet amot. First, and Baruch Hashem, foremost, I have a new grandson, and a daughter who’s moved in with me for a few weeks, while she’s finding her feet as a new mum. My washing mountain over Succot grew to such disturbing proportions I had […]
A picture speaks a thousand words: The Rav, with his Torah, which was finally handed over to him yesterday, just as the ‘war ended’… == Thanks to everyone who helped to make the Sefer Torah a reality. I don’t know what happens next, honestly – no-one does. But, I have a very deep feeling that […]
I just found a clip of the Prince of Egypt film song ‘Deliver Us’. I cried when I watched it. == The xtian antisemites like to pretend they ‘took over’ from the Jews as God’s chosen people. They didn’t. What’s true, is that our Jewish community got taken over by the scum of the earth […]
Chag Sameach. No real posting here this week for a bunch of good reasons, including Sukkot. Just to update you, the Rav’s Sefer Torah is written, and is just going through the final digital checks to make sure it’s kosher. The Rav has been saying for 20 months, that when the Sefer Torah is written, […]
There is so much going on at the mo, it’s hard to catch your breath. In my own dalet amot, Hashem has been flinging a bunch of ‘pebbles’ at me recently, all well-deserved and much less than I’m due as a kapara for my many sins, but still kinda overwhelming and taking a lot of energy […]
Warning: puke bags may be required for viewing the following. == The CMJ is the modern name of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (LSPCAJ). It got started in 1809, in London, headed up by a converted German Jew who I suspect had connections with the Frankist network, originally called ‘Joseph Levi’, […]
Many people apparently struggle to understand why a man would leave his home, his family (if he has one…) and go to Uman for Rosh Hashana. In the old days, they used to spread rumours that the only reason ‘people went to Uman’ was to party, and do a bunch of terrible aveirot (as if, […]
Baruch Hashem, my husband mostly had a great time in Uman this year, despite a 29 hour return trip. He asked me to do a little pidyon for him at the Polish border with the Rav, and I did, and it meant that my husband could endure the 11 hour wait to cross the border […]
Over Rosh, I managed to read quite a bit of Martin Buber’s ‘Tales of the Hasidim’. These books have been out of print for 50 years (they were first published in 1947 (Vol 1) and 1948 (Vol 2), but God helped me to find them, two months apart, in a second-hand book shop here in […]