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A weekly message from Rabbi Cantor Menachem Mirski, Ph.D.

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My Family City – Jewish Lublin

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jews constituted almost a half of the city’s population, and until the middle of the century Lublin itself remained the second largest, after Warsaw, center of the Jewish population in the Kingdom of Poland. Between 1819 and 1864 their number in the city increased from Continue Reading

My Family City – Jewish Przemyśl

My hometown, Przemyśl, had a very vibrant Jewish history. Here are some historical facts in a nutshell. 

In 1875, the first Zionist organization was founded under the name of Ishuv Palestinian. In 1884, the supporters of the tzaddik from Bełz founded the Machzyke Hadas association, and in 1893 a branch of the Chibat Continue Reading

10 przykazań z rabinicznym i filozoficznym komentarzem

Wszystkich zainteresowanych zapraszam do obejrzenia cyklu moich wykładów/podcastów, który nagrałem tego lata. Temat wydaje się oczywisty i powszechnie znany. W rzeczywistości istnieje w tej kwestii wiele niespodzianek, niuansów i spora ilość rozmaitych interpretacji.

Przykładowo: 1. Nie ma w Biblii przykazania “Nie zabijaj”. Continue Reading

Freedom of existential self-defining

Who Am I? More importantly, who are you and why don’t you agree with me, because I am right. I know I am right, because if I knew I was wrong, I would know what was right so I would be right again, thus I am right. So why don’t you agree with me since I just proved I was right?

Logic IS the Continue Reading