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קוראים וקוראות יקרים,
בדיוק לפני שנה יצאנו לדרך עם פרוייקט חדש: ממתק לשבת. מדי שבוע, אנו מפיקים סרטון יפהפה עם הרב נחמיה וילהלם, שליח הרבי בבנגקוק שבתאילנד, שמגיש רעיון קצר על הפרשה בתוספת סיפור ותמיד-תמיד עם מסר רלבנטי.
בשנה שחלפה, עשרות אלפי צפיות ושיתופים נרשמו לסרטונים – באתר, בדף הפייסבוק שלנו, באלפי העברות בווצאפ ועוד. "אתם עושים לי את השבת!" כתב לנו חייל בודד שנשאר בבסיס לשבת. "מדי יום שישי, אני מקרינה את הסרטון על מסך גדול עבור הדיירים שלנו" כתבה רכזת בבית לקשיש במרכז הארץ. ברוך השם, ההצלחה של הסרטונים מדהימה.
לצד סרטוני ממתק לשבת, השקנו סרטונים מרתקים נוספים: סידרה שהתמקדה במנהגי השבת והסבירה מדוע עורכים קידוש, אוכלים דגים ומברכים על שתי חלות; סידרת "עשרת הדברות לזוגיות" ו"טיפים לחינוך"; "דילמות החיים בספר התניא", "מדיטציה על פי היהדות", "מחכמת הנצח של חז"ל לפרקי אבות", "זוגיות מקורית" ועוד.
כל סרטון מעשיר, מלמד ומהנה, ומגיע לעשרות אלפי איש בארץ ובעולם.
עם סיום השנה הראשונה לפרוייקט – שמומן באמצעות מענק מיוחד שהסתיים – אנו מתכננים שנה נוספת של עשיה. אנו רוצים להמשיך בהפקת סרטוני ממתק לשבת לצד עשרות סרטונים מרתקים נוספים, אבל אנחנו לא יכולים לעשות את זה לבד.
האם תוכלו בבקשה לסייע לנו?
אנא לחצו כאן כדי לתרום ולאפשר את המשך הפקת סרטוני ממתק לשבת, ועוד!
לתורמים מעל 1000 ש"ח, ניתנת הזדמנות להוסיף הקדשה שתוצג בגוף הסרטון. אנא ציינו זאת בעת תרומתכם. לתרומות, לחצו כאן.
תודה רבה, ויהי רצון שתזכו תמיד לברכתו של בורא העולם בכל אשר תפנו,
הרב מנדי קמינקר
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2016
Ugly Churches Win Awards
The website of the Italian Episcopal Conference’s newspaper Avvenirereported Wednesday on the winners of the 6th edition of the International “Frate Sole” prize for sacred architecture. I would normally ignore an item like this when it pops up, as it did, on my Facebook feed, but for the grossly inappropriate headline, “Here Are The New Most Beautiful Churches in the World.” Tourism accounts for around 10% of Italy’s economy, which is the 8th largest in the world; the nation received over 57 million foreign visitors in 2013, while every holiday season, millions of Italians travel within their own country to visit what they call the “Città d’arte – Art cities.” (This classically Italian expression means both cities that are full of art, but also cities that are in and of themselves works of art.) One cannot help but ask, What kinds of churches, and what kind of beauty, do the editors of Avvenire imagine these people are coming to their country to see?
This photograph of the 3rd prize winner highlights the problem perfectly; at first glance, most people would probably assume that the building in the background was the church, and the one in the foreground a train station, or perhaps a library dedicated to the works of really depressing philosophers.
Unfortunately, the one in the foreground is the Propsteikirche (Provost’s Church) of the Holy Trinity in Leipzig, Germany; the only thing to indicate this architecturally is the cross on the bell tower, which looks a great deal like the clock tower of the train station in my home town of Providence, R.I. The building in the background is the early 20th century city hall.
Things don’t get any better inside.
And then there’s the first prize-winner, the Iglesia de Iesu (it is apparently officially spelled that way, according to the Greek, for no discernible reason) in San Sebastián in northern Spain. Here we will start with the sanctuary, featuring a retable that is completely blank. (closer view - photos from Wikipedia bySimoncio)
Just over three years ago, I noted a critique of this style of church design from no less a personage than Dr Antonio Paolucci, the director of the Vatican Museum, which applies here just as much as it does to the modern churches in the periphery of Rome about which they were originally said: ”They look like warehouses. ... Spaces that do not invite (us) to meditation, devoid of the sense of the sacred, without a breath of mystery or religion.”
The problem here is that the title of this article is not just true in the immediate sense, a way of saying in the classic style of newspaper headlines that specific ugly churches have just won awards. It is also true aphoristically; ugly churches win architectural awards all the time, because they are designed to win awards, not to serve as the House of God and the home of His people.
To cleanse the palate, here’s a photo of the Greek Orthodox church in Venice, San Giorgio dei Greci, recently taken by our Ambrosian correspondent Nicola de’ Grandi. Not designed to win awards.
This photograph of the 3rd prize winner highlights the problem perfectly; at first glance, most people would probably assume that the building in the background was the church, and the one in the foreground a train station, or perhaps a library dedicated to the works of really depressing philosophers.
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Things don’t get any better inside.
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The problem here is that the title of this article is not just true in the immediate sense, a way of saying in the classic style of newspaper headlines that specific ugly churches have just won awards. It is also true aphoristically; ugly churches win architectural awards all the time, because they are designed to win awards, not to serve as the House of God and the home of His people.
To cleanse the palate, here’s a photo of the Greek Orthodox church in Venice, San Giorgio dei Greci, recently taken by our Ambrosian correspondent Nicola de’ Grandi. Not designed to win awards.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Obama Administration Forces California Churches to Pay for Abortions
Churches in California are officially subject to an onerous state regulation that requires them to pay for abortions, thanks to a ruling by the Obama administration.
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Churches in California are officially subject to an onerous state regulation that requires them to pay for abortions, thanks to a ruling by the Obama administration.
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Donald Trump Tells Pro-Life Leaders: I’ll Pick Pro-Life Judges, Promote Religious Liberty
Since he’s become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pro-life voters are starting to move in Donald Trump’s direction — especially knowing the alternative is abortion activist Hillary Clinton.
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Since he’s become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pro-life voters are starting to move in Donald Trump’s direction — especially knowing the alternative is abortion activist Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton’s Short List of VP Running Mates Includes Three Abortion Advocates
Hillary Clinton is a longtime abortion advocate who is perfectly fine with abortions up to birth with virtually no limits.
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Hillary Clinton is a longtime abortion advocate who is perfectly fine with abortions up to birth with virtually no limits.
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Pennsylvania House Passes Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Off Baby’s Limbs
The Pennsylvania state House today passed a pro-life bill to ban dismemberment abortions that tear off an unborn baby’s limbs.
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The Pennsylvania state House today passed a pro-life bill to ban dismemberment abortions that tear off an unborn baby’s limbs.
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Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life’s Global Outreach program (MCCL GO) addressed a session of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council today in Geneva.
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Barbara Bush Calls Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz an “Exceptional Organization”
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Woman Having Her 9th Abortion Horrified Seeing Parts of Her Aborted Child: “That’s My Baby”
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