Ariel Ben Avraham

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Mar 20, 2024, 6:09 PM

Love during war

Our current war against Hamas and Hezbollah undoubtedly has brought us up together. This togetherness as the awareness that our Jewish identity is what has kept us united throughout the times. The more we reflect on this, the more...

Nov 19, 2023, 3:50 PM

Our turning point

October the 7th has made us all reflect on our existence as in other similar situations lived and endured since our beginnings with Abraham, our father. It always has been and will be about our Jewish identity. Yet, this...

Oct 11, 2023, 1:39 PM

We have been saying it again and again, yet it happens again and again. We as a people and a nation, must make this statement permanent. No excuses, no lowered arms, no mistakes, no excuses. The lessons by the...

Dec 28, 2020, 5:47 PM

Lessons from Wonder Woman 1984

What a wonderful movie! The one that reminds you those that make you reflect and teach you something good, from beginning to end. It begins with a lesson that not all understand or accept because most of the teachings related...

Sep 17, 2020, 4:59 PM

Reflections for a New Year

It's been some time without posting in this blog after six years of continuous weekly postings. With the exception of one or two times to reflect on current events. This hiatus responds to working on three major projects I...

May 7, 2020, 5:16 PM

The Lessons of a Plague

A well known Rabbi in Israel recently said that the crisis derived from the Corona virus would pass when people learn its lessons. Yet, he didn’t elaborate on such “lessons”, as if he would let everyone to figure them...

Jun 5, 2019, 3:08 PM

The New Alliances

The time for strategic alliances is back, ironically in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII. US President Donald Trump began to show more visible signals of his interest to gather international...

Nov 15, 2018, 11:10 PM

Parshat Vayetzei: The place where we belong

“And he lighted upon the place and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place...

Nov 3, 2018, 10:57 PM

Parshat Toldot: The relevance of goodness (II)

“And he smelled the scent of his garments and blessed him; and said, ‘See, the smell of my son is as the scent of a field that the Lord blessed’.” (Genesis 27:27). We said in our commentary on last...

Oct 28, 2018, 12:15 AM

Parshat Chayei Sara: The field of goodness

“So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about,...

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About Me

Ariel Ben Avraham was born in Colombia (1958) from a family with Sephardic ancestry. He studied Cultural Anthropology in Bogota, and lived twenty years in Chicago working as a radio and television producer and writer. He emigrated to Israel in 2004, and for the last fourteen years has been studying the Chassidic mystic tradition, about which he writes and teaches. Based on his studies, he wrote his first book "God's Love" in 2009. He currently lives in Zefat.

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