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Yom Shishi, Av 22, 5776. August 26, 2016. Shalom! World. Karlovy Vary/Czech Republic Karlovy Vary is the biggest and most famous spa town in the Czech Republic. More than 6 million people from all over the world have visited the town during its existence. The spa tradition is the alpha and omega of Karlovy Vary. More than 70 hot springs can be found here and fourteen of them are used in the spa treatment. Their temperature ranges from 39 to 73°C. Mineral springs are used in drinking treatment, for baths, and also for a number of special treatment. Diseases of the digestive and locomotive systems trated as well as metabolic disorders are especially treated in Karlovy Vary. MAIN POST OFFICE Our walk through the valley of hot mineral springs will start in front of the Main Post Office of Karlovy Vary. The Post Office represents the boundary between the shopping centre and the spa area of the town. It was built from the plans of Friedrich Setz in 1903. At the tim...

Wednesday, Av 13, 5776. August 17, 2016. Shalom! World. The chosen aspect of being Jewish is not really a decription of the Jew. A Jew is a created condition. G'd created grass, trees, stones, water, animals, humans, and Jews. A Jew is a unique creation, so the soul of a Jew is inherently and basically different than the soul of a non-Jew (goyn). The Kabbalah says that all things were created by what the Torah refers to as G'ds speech. G'd said, "Let there be light," and there was light, etc. All creation came about through G'ds speech, except the Jew.  The Zohar says tha tthe soul of the Jew was created by G'ds thought - thought rather than speech. Speech is something you can do or not do. "There is a time to speak, and a time to refrain from speaking." Thought, on the other hand, is not something one can discontinue, thought goes on constantly. That which is created by speech is finite because there was a time when G'd ha...

Wednesday, Av 6, 5776. August 10, 2016. Shalom! World. The KZ Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp (1939-1945)  In 1939, the SS had the largest women's concentration camp in the Germany Reich built in the Prussian vilage of Ravensbrück, not far from Fürstenberg, a health resort that historically had belonged to Mecklenburg. The first female prisioners from Lichtenburg concentration camp were transferred to Ravensbrück in the spring of 1939. In April 1941, a men's camp was added, which wasalso under the command of the women''s camp's commandant, and in June 1942, the immediately adjacent Uckermark "juvenile protective custody camp" was taken into operation.  The women's concentration camp was continually expanded until 1945. The SS had more and more huts erected to house prisoners, and in the autumm of 1944, a large tent was added. Within the camp's perimeter wall, an industrial complex comprising several production fac...

HEINRICH GRAETZ Wednesday, Tammuz 28, 5776. August 3, 2016. Shalom! World. Heinrich Graetz (Posen - 1817-91) began his career as Hirsch student, dedicated to continuing the fight against reform movement. Graetz was profoundly affected by reading Hirsch's publications and most sympathetic to Hirsch stated objection to the notion that Judaism could be narrowed down into the sphere of life called religion. Like Hirsch, Graetz affims the totality of Judaism and Jewish existence, which includes all aspects of private and public life. Graetz believes that Judaism law is the lifeline of Judaism without which Jews and Judaism have no future. Graetz criticism of the reform movement coheres with an internal  critique that began in 1845 when Zacharias Frankel (1801-75) walked out of a conference of reform rabbis in Frankfurt over the issue of  the Hebrew language's role in Jewish liturgy. The reformers wanted to eliminated Hebrew form the liturgy, and Frankel believed that t...