The trouble with wanting to go someplace better is, you don't.

I have the lovely 2008 Aya Korem cover of this song in my collection (as part of "'Avodah 'Ivrit"). Here's the Eran Tzur 1993 original, in all its Goth glory.

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Wikipedia (English auto-translation from the Hebrew)
The poem is written in the first person and describes the narrator 's ( Read more... )

https://www.jpost.com/magazine/the-glamour-of-grammar-to-whom-it-may-concernRead more... )

My good friend Michael Weingrad!
https://gettr.com/user/weingrad

Oh, and Joe Rogan has also joined.
https://gettr.com/post/plgurw90c5

I still remember Shabbat with Rabbi Rindenow in San Francisco, singing zmirot (Sabbath table hymns) on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. Some of my favorites were "Mah Yedidut" and "Kah Ribon" and "Dror Yikra".

The refrain of "Mah Yedidut" contains the phrase "barburim, u'slav ve'dagim". "Barbur" isn't a really common word in Hebrew; ( Read more... )

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In the beginning verses of the Bible, we see the Creator fashioning the world, and man in it, bringing forth first chaos, then order, then complexity ( Read more... )

I had the pleasure of meeting David Ehrlich once in his Jerusalem cafe/bookstore. He was a close friend of my longtime friend Professor Michael Weingrad ( Read more... )

So I've finished watching the first season of 'Shtisel', the story of a haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jewish family in Israel. The series is innovative for Israeli television, following in the path of 'Srugim' in depicting the daily lives of religiously observant people in Israel. (Ori Elon, co-creator of 'Shtisel', was also one of the writers for ' ( Read more... )

Some people climb mountains ... but I like to stay at home.

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I didn't get as much done this weekend as I'd hoped, but I did manage to get through Shir haShirim (Song of Songs) to the end, which was the Bible project I'd tasked myself with a few weeks ago. It's not that long - only 117 verses, although the verses tend to be longish - and it's part of the liturgy (read publicly on the eve of the Sabbath and/ ( Read more... )