I heard a talk a while ago around the idea that Judaism is a religion where time is the most important thing. Now someone just told me he heard a talk where the rabbi said that the most important moment of the week is the moment when we go from week day into Shabbat. Our [...]
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The most important moment of the week
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Holidays, Spirituality, Tradition and customs, tagged jew, jewish, judaism, sabbath, shabbat, shabbos, time on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Manners in Israel
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Tradition and customs, israel, tagged conformity, cultures, israel, israeli society, israelis, manners, middle east, polite, western society, western versus israeli society on October 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
People who visit or move to Israel from “Western” countries know that Israeli culture is very different than the culture wherever they come from. It’s much more in your face, straight forward and, sometimes, a “Westerner” might think it a little, well, rude.
Honestly, maybe it’s because I’m hiding at home (kidding, sort of) but since [...]
Being Jewish is too much work
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Tradition and customs, tagged being Jewish, judaism, modernity, relaxation, religion, work on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What an appropriate search for Yom Kippur. Someone googled “being Jewish is too much work” and found Blog Midrash. I’m proud that Blog Midrash came up in that search. Funny.
But it’s a good question. Is being Jewish too much work?
Is this a Jewish country, or what?
Posted in Tradition and customs, israel, tagged candle lighting, israel, jerusalem, judaism, peacefulness, sabbath, shabbat, shabbat shalom, shabbos, the shabbat siren on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sitting in my new writing corner in my parents’ home, listening to the Shabbat begin. What does that sound like in Jerusalem? Less traffic, a quiet calm as people finish up their preparations, some sounds of kids interacting and, of course, the siren.
Have you all heard the siren that sounds at the time of [...]
What to do about baseball?
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Tradition and customs, tagged children, halacha, parents and children, rules, shabbat on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My son has fallen in love with baseball. He played on a team for the first time this fall. He loved it so much that he decided not to play soccer but to do fall baseball. Baseball sounded good because it was local and soccer required traveling up to 2 hours away.
This baseball idea is all [...]
