David Skolni

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Aug 8, 2014, 11:57 AM

Between destruction and love

This Shabbat the 13th Day of Av, is my Hebrew Date of Birth. We are told that our Hebrew Birthday provides many personal insights and lessons with regard to our life. It is a day of supreme divine intervention. The number...

Aug 2, 2014, 1:50 PM

The Voice of Hashem is in Hadar

The whereabouts of Hadar Goldin (the IDF officer abducted yesterday in Gaza) are currently unknown. Soon after the news broke, his name was known to the whole House of Israel and to many in the world at...

May 30, 2014, 10:36 AM

The Tribe and Tribes of Facebook

After ten years, in the year 2014 Mark said: "Take a census of the sons and daughters of the Facebook tribe according to the Zuckerberg household. From thirteen years of age and up." Their countings were 1.3 billion members....

May 18, 2014, 4:23 PM

May the Tel Aviv light shine in Milano tonight

Tonight there will be Lag Ba'omer bonfires burning throughout Israel. Whilst these fires burn Maccabi Tel Aviv will be taking on the mighty Real Madrid in the Euro league basketball Final in Milano, Italy, cheered on by the ten...

Feb 26, 2014, 12:21 PM

Later today I need to attend a meeting. This meeting will be challenging, demanding, as well as all the other euphemisms for "darn hard". This is a day which requires early morning preparation. I need to be in a good...

Feb 13, 2014, 12:18 PM

One mom, one love

This morning I marked the end of sitting shiva for my mother of blessed memory, by doing the traditional walk around the block together with my brother, my sister in law and their two dogs. I came to Cape Town...

Jan 31, 2014, 8:11 AM

Jewish meditation: Have a divine day!

A couple of days ago by chance,I noticed in my bedroom a small booklet titled "Living in divine space", which I had borrowed from a friend some months back. Something drew me to pick it up. I have recently...

Jan 27, 2014, 7:49 AM

Kaf Vav and your one love – today!

I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning, which is not too unusual for me. The first couple of hours of the day are the ones during which I am most focused. I am a morning person. The very...

Jan 23, 2014, 11:45 AM

40 days to change your life?

In the heat of August, 2010, I took a few bags and left home. It was the day my wife and I finally declared an end to a marriage that had been difficult for most of its nineteen years....

Jan 15, 2014, 9:41 AM

Sharon and Messi: Lions in the field

Two worldly leonine personalities, one named Ariel and the other Lionel, were both honored at separate and very different ceremonies on Monday January 13, 2014. The two lions were both acclaimed yet also tamed. Ariel Sharon, whose name means "Lion...

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About Me

David Skolni is a South African immigrant. He came to live in Israel in 1982. He is a special needs teacher and a practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. His current interest is in the connections between body, movement and Judaism.