
Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | Strength Through Kindness: Rabbi Uziel’s Vision for Israeli Society
Rabbi Uziel’s vision for Israeli society is our light beyond this darkness.
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the International Director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

Rabbi Uziel’s vision for Israeli society is our light beyond this darkness.

Reading his words in a post-October 7th world, I look back to what Rabbi Uziel and the Jewish world were facing after Tisha B’Av, Summer of 1933.


The return of my column, “Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land.”

If ever there was a musical metaphor for the place that I now call home – Israel – it is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

On Passover night, God took us out of Egypt. On the Seventh Day, Hamas took them back.

The train in Israel is a magical place, and Am Yisrael – jeans and black coats together – are a magical people.

My new Israeli synagogue is made up of Jews from all ethnic backgrounds.

In the Israel of 2024, Rav Uziel’s grand vision for rabbis remains as powerfully compelling as it was in 1936.

This systematic study of the Torah’s 613 commandments was written as a gift from a father to his son.