Dear Brothers and Sisters, As rain has brought us cold and snow on Mount Herman, our cisterns are now full with water and the trees and land drank from this precious gift of rain in abundance. In our Novitiate program we participated from the January 7th to 21st in the Biblical Program course on the Psalms. Here we looked at the Psalms as Literature with Rabbi Benjamin Segal, as Liturgy with Rabbi Dalia Marx, and as Psalms for Personal Spirituality with Rabbi Gail Diamond. With Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kehlman, founder of the Kol HaNeshama synagogue we looked at Psalm 150. Engaging with the Word, the People and the Land, by studying texts and visiting sites related to the biblical text; reflecting on relevant Church Documents; and engaging with the people. (‘The Bible, The People, The Land’) is the motto of the Centre for Biblical Formation at Ecce Homo. We had amazing encounters with people – teachers of the Word and visits in the Land with a closing talk on Kabala in the city of Sefat. Our …