Traditional Jews believe that they are obligated to pray three times a day – morning, afternoon and evening. The morning blessings are recited (some privately upon awakening, and some publicly in the Shacharit service) to express our gratitude to G-d for enabling us to start a new day, refreshed and reinvigorated.
Originally recited by individuals in [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
Survey: Morning Blessings (birkat ha-shachar)
January 20, 2008
Hélène Berr, the Computer Age
I am currently reading Hélène Berr’s diary. Hélène Berr was a young French student, she was reading English, when the war started. In 1942, she began writing her own diary. It deals mainly with her daily life in occupied Paris, the friends she met, the lectures she attended, the relationship with her relatives. Obviously she [...]
January 14, 2008
Blogging from my Desktop, at long last
For some reason I much prefer to blog from my desktop than online. You can start a post, save what you have written, shut your computer down and then get back to your post whenever you feel like it.When I was on the LiveJournal platform I had a small app from which I could do [...]
January 3, 2008
The Band’s Visit
Bikur Ha-Tizmoret
This film was released in France three weeks ago and I think it has already been released in the UK and the US. I was lucky to see it in October at a preview during a film festival.
The plot is simpe: A brass band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force [...]
