[caption id="attachment_26370" align="alignleft" width="300"] Luis and Claudia[/caption] Luis (Uziel) Morao learned about his Jewish roots in Portugal at a tender young age…literally: his family formally began practicing Judaism after he was circumcised, although for Luis that wasn’t at 8 days, as is traditional in Judaism, but...
Daniel grew up with just his mother in Lublin, Poland. When he was a teenager, his mother revealed to Daniel that his father was Jewish. “But the subject was a taboo,” Daniel says, and so he never discussed it further nor pursued his Jewish roots...
[caption id="attachment_26232" align="alignleft" width="300"] Tony (middle) just prior to his IDF induction[/caption] He’s in the army now: Tony (Hoshea) Liang is the latest Chinese Jew to join the Israel Defense Forces. Six years ago, Shavei Israel helped seven young Chinese men make aliyah from the ancient...
[caption id="attachment_26214" align="alignleft" width="300"] Edith Blaustein (far left) with Chilean Jewish community members[/caption] In Santiago, Chile, a religious Jewish family employed a young woman as a maid. Normally, the maid worked just during the day, but on one Friday, the family asked her to put in...
[caption id="attachment_26127" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bnei Menashe women at Raise Your Spirits Theatre performance of "Sisters!"[/caption] Two dozen girls and women from the Bnei Menashe community met their Biblical counterparts on stage this week as the Raise Your Spirits Theatre invited recent and veteran Bnei Menashe immigrants...
[caption id="attachment_26123" align="alignleft" width="225"] Gao Yichen with her passport and visa - ready to go![/caption] The aliyah from China continues. In our continuing series of profiles of the five young women from the Jewish community in Kaifeng who will be immigrating to Israel in the coming...
At 27-years-old, Li Jing is the oldest of the five women. Li grew up in Kaifeng, but studied business English at university in Xi’an, a six-hour train ride away and home to the famous Terracotta Warriors....
The Bnei Menashe community is picking up the pieces from a massive 6.8 magnitude earthquake that affected many of the regions where they live. It was the most destructive quake in the last 65 years in a region that has seen 20 major tremors over...
Entrando al Santuario
La oraci?n por excelencia del juda?smo es la llamada ?Amid??, o ?Shmon?-Esr??.
Es una oraci?n compuesta por una serie de bendiciones, siete en Shabat y en d?as festivos, o diecinueve en d?as laborales, que se repite tres veces al d?a, por la ma?ana, por la tarde y por la noche.
Es precisamente en este momento, al recitar esta oraci?n, que debemos sentirnos en contacto directo con el Creador. Por ello nos instruyen nuestros Sabios (en el Cuzar?) que debemos hacer uso correcto de nuestra imaginaci?n, reviviendo la experiencia nacional en que estuvimos ante el Monte Sinai para recibir la Palabra Divina, o cuando acud?amos al Tabern?culo o al Templo, o el momento en que nuestro Patriarca Avraham puso a su hijo sobre el altar en el Monte Mori?.
O imaginarnos que somos el Sumo Sacerdote que entra, una vez al a?o, en Yom Kipur, al C?desh ha-Codashim, al Sancta Sanctorum, el lugar m?s santo del mundo donde estaba colocada el Arca de la Alianza, para interceder por el Pueblo de Israel. Por esto, antes de comenzar esta oraci?n nos giramos en direcci?n del Templo y damos tres pasos al frente, como si entr?ramos al C?desh ha-Codashim, y al final damos tres pasos atr?s, como si sali?ramos. El Sumo Sacerdote entraba solo en este d?a, mientras que nosotros podemos, ?debemos!, entrar tres veces cada d?a. In a Shavei Israel exclusive, we have three videos from the Igbo Jewish community in Nigeria for Hanukah. Blessings, fervent prayer and hanukkiot light up the African night. You don't want to miss these videos, only on shavei.org....
