Aryeh Ben-Gurion was an educator. Born in Russia, he came with his family to Palestine in 1924. His grandfather, Avigdor Green, was among the founders of ḥibat Tsiyon, and his uncle, David Ben-Gurion, was Israel’s first prime minister. In the 1930s, as part of the United Kibbutz Movement, Aryeh Ben-Gurion founded the Kibbutz Institute for Holidays and Jewish Culture, to celebrate Jewish festivals in a secular environment. He earned the Avi-Chai Prize for creating a Jewish cultural infrastructure in the kibbutz community and throughout Israel.
Hebrew manuscript illustration underwent a revival in eighteenth-century Germany and Central Europe. As wealthy Jews began to commission such manuscripts, a school of scribes and artists emerged. This…
We shall live in the shade of the graceful doe and, living there, shall be sustained. We shall walk through darkness by her light, with never-ending joy. When she laughs, we will burst into song; when…
You shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field. You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of…