II.3 The Head in the House
This is illustrated by the first word of the book of Genesis: Breshit – translated as “in the beginning”. The question poses itself: The beginning of what? And the Torah continues: of the creation of Heaven and Earth. The next question to ask ourselves is: Created out of what? The [...]
Blog II
Reevaluating Settlement Policy
Since 1967 nothing has done more damage to Jewish unity and the status of Jews around the world than Israel’s misconceived settlement policy. A good case could be made that some of the post-Six-Day-War suburbs of Jerusalem and the middle-class settlements contiguous to Israel’s pre-Six-Day-War borders contribute to Israel’s vital interests.
But the [...]
My daughter is getting married toward the end of August and all around me is a whirlwind of events. World chaos and family drama sometimes intertwine making it almost impossible to determine what the heck is going on. The blessings coming my way are from the awareness of just how wonderful this event and the [...]
Tsvi Bisk is an American-Israeli futurist, social researcher and strategy planning consultant. He is the Director of the Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking (www.futurist-thinking.co.il). He is co-author of Futurizing the Jews (Praeger Press 2003) and author of The Optimistic Jew: A positive vision for the Jewish people in the 21st century (Maxanna Press 2007). Tsvi [...]
In our science-oriented society, there is only one way to make the Torah relevant again: to furnish scientific proof that it knows what it is talking about. This can be done only by going back to the original Hebrew meaning of the Torah and using scientific means to explore what the Torah really said. This [...]
Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch
II.1 Elohim
Breshit bara Elohim - in the beginning God created. This is the first sentence of the first book of the Torah. This is the moment where, according to the Torah it all started - the reality we know; the reality we can recognize with our senses, and with our tools [...]