Tribute delivered at the funeral by daughter, Danielle Levison on 12.07.20 “14/4/44” – Dad’s late great Mum and our Grandma Rose would often be heard singing this to Dad to sooth him to sleep as an infant. Born during the great Blitz of London as the doodle bugs were dropping, Maurice “Basil” Goldstone came into the world. Loved deeply by his parents, Rose and Nat Goldstone, and by his late Brother Michael and sister Maureen. He was molly coddled from the outset and sometimes put in a dress by his sister and called Sally – who had longed for a...
LIFE AND QUALITY OF LIFE We have three daily services: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, or Shacharit, Mincha and Ma’ariv. The name Shacharit is connected to the word Shachar, which means dawn. The name Ma’ariv comes from the word Erev, which means evening. So what would you expect Mincha to mean? Well, in the Torah it doesn’t mean afternoon, so why is it connected to the afternoon service? The word Mincha, occurs several times in this week’s parasha. In its context, it refers to the offering of flour and oil that accompanied the daily, Shabbat and festival offerings. Every morning and...
HEALING FROM THE SERPENT AND COVID The first of this week’s parashot describes how the Israelites are punished by G-d with an attack of fiery snakes. They had complained about their bread and water. In the plague that followed, the serpents “bit the people and many of the Israelites died” (Numbers 21:6). The cure G-d prescribes is an unexpected one. He tells Moses to make a copper serpent and place it on a pole, and instruct the people to stare at the snake and become cured. “Make for yourself a fiery serpent and place it on a pole, and it...
