Linda Pardes Friedburg, at The Blogs

Dec 17, 2023, 6:41 PM

Expel the Darkness! The Jewish Interpretation of Dreams

When Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows and stalks of corn being consumed by their skinny counterparts, his court magicians explain that he will bear seven daughters, who will all die. Yosef, on the other hand, interprets Pharaoh's dreams with...

Sep 12, 2023, 9:46 AM

Ingathering and Standing Together

Coolest Parsha ever. אַתֶּ֨ם נִצָּבִ֤ים הַיּוֹם֙ כֻּלְּכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם רָאשֵׁיכֶ֣ם שִׁבְטֵיכֶ֗ם זִקְנֵיכֶם֙ וְשֹׁ֣טְרֵיכֶ֔ם כֹּ֖ל אִ֥ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ We stand here together, all parts of our People, today - i.e. Rosh Hashanah, every year, say our sages, throughout the generations, who God...

Jul 14, 2023, 6:30 PM

Today!

"אֵלֶּה מַסְעֵי בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲשֶׁר יָצְאוּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם. וַיִּכְתֹּב מֹשֶׁה אֶת מוֹצָאֵיהֶם לְמַסְעֵיהֶם עַל פִּי יְהוָה...(במדבר חג:ב) 42 stations our nascent nation crossed through to reach our Land, with all of their "departures and arrivals" being "according to God's word."...

Jun 9, 2023, 1:33 PM

This Brave Nation

We stood last night at the Western Wall among thousands of proud parents, grandparents and siblings representing all Am Yisrael, as several hundred Nahal soldiers swore their loyalty to the IDF and their nation. We were there for a lone...

May 25, 2023, 11:41 AM

The Book of Ruth – Chesed, Learning, Leadership

This past Shabbat, our Eilat seminar participants had the fantastic privelege of learning all of Megillat Ruth with our dear friend Rabbi Leonid Feldman. We saw how both Boaz and Ruth's ancestors were born of incest - beginning with Tamar...

May 18, 2023, 8:56 PM

Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem

Moshe Dayan: "Yesterday I was not a religious man, and tomorrow I will not be, but today there is no one more religious than me!" Jerusalem Day is a miraculous national holiday, the purest, clearest moment of God's ongoing, albeit...

May 3, 2023, 10:25 PM

75 + Years of Going Up to Our Land

The raison d'etre of our one and only Jewish homeland, 75 years young, is aliyah. Even as I write, thousands of Russian-speaking Jews are trying to make their way here - about 70,000 in just the past year. From my personal...

Apr 21, 2023, 4:54 PM

Healing Words

Today is Rosh Chodesh Iyar, which always falls between the two heaviest days of the Jewish year, Yom HaShoah and Yom HaZikaron. Between national destruction on Holocaust remembrance day, and national rebirth, on Yom HaAtzmaut. The famous acronym for the...

Apr 14, 2023, 2:50 PM

Through our dearest and closest, we will live

We, Am Yisrael, lost four sibling pairs in two months - three to Arab terror, one this week to drowning. And we lose one more pair, the young Priests Nadav and Avihu, this Shabbat in Parshat Shemini - "and a...

Mar 31, 2023, 7:33 PM

And You Shall Teach Your Children and Parents

בימי הפסח יודע הוא כבר בקרבו כי ישראל הוא." (האדמו"ר מפיאסצנה, הי"ד)" "On Pesach, one knows his/her essence is Yisrael." (The Piascetzna Rebbe, hy"d, from Haggadat Piascetzna, edited by Amotz Shapira.) Pesach is a time of intrinsic belonging, and that is...

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Linda Pardes Friedburg made Aliyah from New Jersey in 1990. She is Founding Director of Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli National Jewish Leadership Initiative for Young Russian-Speaking Israelis, is grateful for her six kids and one Belarussian husband, and still feels the need to pinch herself every time she drives up the hill to Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion, their home since 1994. https://youtu.be/i0cR_j6OLP4 www.en.shishi.co.il OLIM FOR TZAHAL https://www.jgive.com/new/en/usd/donation-targets/110405

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