©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronG-d calls on Abraham to leave the land of his birth, and in response he and Sarah begin their journey to a new land and a new kind of faith, that will become the background and location of the adventure of Jewish history….READ MORE.
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©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronThen the earth became corrupt. In this portion we see G-d commanded Noach, the only upright man in his generation, to build an ark to save himself, his family, and two of every living thing, for a flood was about to destroy the earth….READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio in VeniceBereshit (“In the Beginning”), the first parashah in the annual Torah reading cycle, is about the story of the creation of the world by the hands of G-d. The first people, Adam and Eve, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are banished from the Garden of Eden. Their elder son, Cain, kills their younger son, Abel, and Cain is destined to a life of…READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronVezot Ha-Berachah is Moses’ blessing, delivered on the last day of his life, to the Israelites, tribe by tribe. It concludes poignantly with Moses’ death and his burial, seemingly by the hand of….READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio in Venice | Scalamata PublicationsYOM KIPPUR is considered the most important holiday in the Jewish Year. Many jews who do not observe any other Jewish costomes will refrain from working, fast and attend synagogue services on…READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio In Venice by Michal MeronParashat Ha’Azinu, the next to last parashah in the Torah, fulfills G-d’s
instruction for Moses to “write down this song and teach it to the people of
Israel” (Deuteronomy 31:19)……READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronEach year on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah and the morning of Yom Kippur, we read Parashot: Nitzavim and Vayelech. The parasha takes place on the very last day of Moses’ life. The Israelites have come…..READ MORE.
©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronParashat Ki Tavo focuses on the Israelites’ entrance into the Promised Land: the
ceremonies they will follow once they arrive and then get settled, and the consequences
of obeying…..READ MORE.
© 2023 The Studio in Venice by Michal Meron & Alon BakerMoses enumerates many laws that relate to topics of family relationships, interpersonal ethics, forbidden mixtures, and sexuality. In continuing his last speech, Moses delivers specific rules on family relationships. READ MORE
©2024 The Studio in Venice by Michal MeronMoses reviews for the Israelites their system of justice, the rules of kingship, their relationship to idolatrous nations, and the rules of doing battle. Moses continues his last speech to the Israelites before he dies saying: “Judges shall be appointed to judge the people with justice. You shall not…