Chanuka is a festivity that everybody likes. Also there are no restrictions about traveling, working or turning on lights. It’s only fun and party. But are we really celebrating Chanuka the way the Chachamim meant? Chanuka is the triumph of the light of Torah over the Chochma of the Greeks, that means that Torah is […]
Category Archives: Parasha En English
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Nov
Nov
This week, Parashat Vayeshev, the Torah tells us the sad story when Yosef was sold because of his brother’s envy. Yosef was 17 years old when he was sold as a slave to Egypt, where he spend 22 years away from his family. At the moment of the sell (Bereshit 36:25) the Torah tells […]
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May
May
This week the Parsha is Naso. There’s a very interesting Mitzva, the Nazir. The Nazir is a person who receives on himself a vow not to drink wine, cut his hair or be in contact with a dead body. It’s for a minimum of 30 days. In the Tora this Mitzva comes after the Sota […]
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May
May
This week we start the book of Bamidbar, Numbers. Here the Tora counts the children of Israel in the desert according to each Tribe. It’s interesting that the Tribe of Binyamin counted 35 400 people and the one following which is Dan, counted 62 700. It’s interesting because Binyamin had ten children and Dan only […]
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
