Temple Shir Shalom

This page will include downloadable documents and media files for Rabbi Joseph's course "Back to Basics: Israel and the Jewish Heart."

Session 1:

English text of the Declaration of the State of Israel

Melton Lesson on Israel page one

Balfour Declaration

Parashat Lech Lecha

Slideshow for Session 1

Session 2:

Jew in the Lotus text selection

http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2011/02/judah-halevi-my-heart-is-in-east-from.html

Psalm 137

Psalm 126

18 Benedictions

Tourist, by Yehuda Amichai

Session 3:

Jeremiah 32

Yishuv

Kalischer

Pinsker

Nordau

Ahad Ha-Am

Jabotinsky

Steinberg