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[Alumni Guest Post] Ready!
Sarah Margles (Year '02, PEP '04) reflects upon preparing for Shavuot... what does "readiness" mean? I remember when I first started at Pardes, I would spend much of Fridays getting ready for Shabbat –...
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Unexpected Encounters: The Jewish Holidays and the Other – Shavuot
Pardes is pleased to present the third episode of our new podcast series by Rabbi Daniel Landes, Unexpected Encounters: The Jewish Holidays and the Other. This episode is on Shavuot. Episode title:...
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One An outlander arrives in J-town. Not my first time and G!d-willing, not my last. In a newish role: student, not teacher! The book is open. Minus one Disequilibrium: distance from home and life...
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[PCJE Dvar Torah] From Desert to Dessert: a Shavuot Reflection – by Tani...
In Rabbi Meir Schewiger’s Parashat ha-Shavuah (weekly Torah Portion) class, while learning Sefer Shemot (Book of Exodus), we spoke about the desert as a place where one goes to prepare for Torah study....
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אחד – ONENESS
From my blog: Am I awake or asleep? Maybe a dreamlike state in between the two. I leave my apartment 4:45 am to continue my journey But all I am thinking about is my bed, snuggling between my warm...
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[Alumni Guest Post] Choose Wisely!
Tamara Frankel (PEP '09-'11) is in her second year of teaching at Chicagoland Jewish High School. It’s one of the first sunny days in Chicago this spring and my students beg me to take them outside for...
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Our Prophecy at Pardes
My dvar Torah from the Galil Shabbaton: On Shavuot, Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan spoke about the prophetic power of G-d’s ruach – G-d’s spirit, breath, or wind. Throughout Tanakh, whenever ruach appears, G-d...
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Yet Another Bracha
Presenting this dvar at the final Pardes community lunch of 2013photo credit: Andrea Wiese Two months ago, I decided to do a little experiment. For those who haven’t heard me talking about it, I...
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[PCJE Dvar Torah] Worst. Math Homework. Ever.
The omer is my least favourite time of year. Partly because of how all the clean-cut men in the world suddenly become scraggly and foreign looking and also partly because of the mournful tone of the...
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[Alumni Guest Post] Why Were the Jews Given the Torah?
X-posted from Eryn's blog post: Eryn London (Summer ’06 & ’07, Community Education ’10, Year ’10-’11, Hourly ’11-’12) made Aliya from New Jersey three years ago. She is currently studying in the...
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