Weekly Torah Reading
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Bereishit – Taking Responsibility
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. Commentary by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. If leadership is the solution, what is the problem? On this,...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXI) Jeremiah
llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying]:...
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What exactly is a sukkah? What is it supposed to represent?
The question is essential to the mitzvah itself. The Torah says: “Live in sukkot for seven days: All native-born Israelites are...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XX) Jeremiah
llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham “Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed...
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The Courage to Grow
A Yom Kippur message from Rabbi Sacks I vividly remember the surprise and delight I had when I...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XIX) Jeremiah
llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . In order to fully assimilate the Messianic Consciousness as the premise for...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVIII) Jeremiah
llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . The most persecuted, humiliated and oppressed of all Jewish Prophets was Jeremiah. Not...
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The Torah as God’s Song
At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s behest 612 commands, Moses is instructed to give them...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVII) Ezekiel
In these three chapters the Prophet describes the dimensions and chambers of the third and final Temple destined to last forever....
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The Parameters of Justice
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Museum In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVI) Ezekiel
Our Sages teach us that the Creator’s ways and attributes are all good and righteous. We realize this if we take...
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Testing Prophecy – A prophet is not an oracle: a prophecy is not a prediction
Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XIV) Ezekiel
We must reflect on the warnings the permanent awareness of our connection with the Creator gives us. We have learned in...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XIII) Ezekiel
Almost three quarters (35 out of 48 chapters) of the message the Creator delivers to Israel and the nations through Ezekiel...
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Judaism’s Social Vision
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum . If you seek to understand Judaism’s social vision, look at its anti-poverty legislation. “It demeans,...
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Ekev – Greatness and Humility
By Rabbi Lord Sacks. A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XII) Obadiah
“The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord God concerning Edom (…)” (Obadiah 1:1) In the book of Genesis, the Torah...
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Philosophy or Prophecy – Va’etchanan
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner Ratner Museum. One of the most profound disagreements in Judaism is that between Moses Maimonides and Judah...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XI) Haggai
By Ariel Ben Avraham “Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying: ‘Is it a time for...
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Tzedek: Justice and Compassion
Art by Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he...
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