Pardes was honored to welcome Rabbi Aryeh Ben David for the launch of the Ayeka Haggadah. The aim of this haggadah is to help guests of all ages to come to the Seder ready to share, participate and connect to each…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, Pesach
“The perpetual prayer of the soul continually tries to emerge from its latent state to become revealed and actualized, to permeate every fiber of life of the entire universe . . . Sudden spiritual clarity comes about as a result…
Personalities, Modern Personalities, Self & Spirituality, Spirituality, Teaching Resources & Education
If someone never changes, s/he never has to face the challenge of how to integrate the past with the present. There is no tension, no challenge, no struggle. A life bereft of growth progresses along a simple continuum, never needing…
Jewish Calendar, Pesach
“For education to be truly effective it has to penetrate into the depths of the soul of the student.” The Disconnectedness of Standard Jewish Education In my opinion there is a serious problem in Jewish Education a problem that will…
Teaching Resources & Education, Philosophy of Education, Self & Spirituality, Spirituality
There are two widespread stereotypes of spirituality: 1) of spiritual behavior, and 2) of the goal of spirituality. Often I ask a group of students, “What does a spiritual person do? What does a spiritual person look like?” I inevitably…
Self & Spirituality, Spirituality