Elijah Interfaith Summer School 2022 — For the last session of the Summer School, we were given the following task, We have been exploring various dimensions of ‘return’ Which aspects of ‘return’ provide me with an enhanced understanding of a. my own religion Well, I have to remind myself what is my religion. I heard Rabbi…

Elijah Summer School Week 2 Day 4— Wednesday 3rd August 2022 — I offered a few thoughts in response to a question which seems to increase my engagement. Baruch asked for a line from a prayer. I offered, “Our father who is in heaven, holy is your name.” He then asked if he could work with me to demonstrate what he was…

Elijah Summer School Week 2 Day 3— Tuesday 2nd August 2022 — When Jesus said this is how you should pray it was 5 verses. He had lived out the concept of ‘Our father’ with those following him. They had an idea of what he spoke of as they had heard it and witnessed it in his life. As we arrived at…

Elijah Summer School — Week 2 Day 2, Monday 1st August 2022 — I liked the idea of remembering prayers of the past. A prayer that always comes to mind was around the age of 7. I was standing on the upstairs landing of my home. My mother called me and I knew there was a problem. …

Elijah Interfaith Summer School 2022 — day 6 Friday 29th July — We were looking at Time if it has significance. Rabbi Alon had prepared a paper ‘Return and Holy Times — Sabbath and Jewish Festivals’ I had never appreciated the significance of the Sabbath. Yes, I was aware of it objectively but I became to see it from an interior position. If it is a source of energy, divine energy, that all the other days of the week are preparing for then maybe I should pay more attention to its role. I wasn't aware that the Jewish days are numbered, 1, 2, 3 and on. The Sabbath is named.

Elijah Interfaith Summer School 2022 — day 5 Thursday 28th July 2022 — I had wondered why we were going to a private address. It took us 90 minutes to get there as we got lost and found many times. Esther was born in France in 1930. She recalled her story of the Nazis placing her and her family in a camp near…

Elijah Interfaith Summer School 2022 — day 4 — “We are people of the spirit”. I can never be sure I heard right but if it was to this I said “Amen”. …

Elijah Interfaith Summer School 2022 day 3 — We did the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa led by Sister Rita. At Notre Dame , the Vatican's guest house, we heard from ‘ a consecrated woman’ how in moving from Spain to here she had discovered a new openness. …