All posts tagged "Torah"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love as our common bond

     By Ariel Ben Avraham   Ki Tisa: God’s Love The principle in the relationship between Israel and God is Love. We proclaim...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Radical Responsibility: Keynote Speech at International Jerusalem Book Fair

    The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks delivered the keynote address at the launch of ‘Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi...

• Steve

  Buy Israel Week 2013 listen and learn

        This week, StandWithUs is promoting the Buy Israel Goods (BIG) week, as part of the Buy Israel Week 2013 initiative, a...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Prophet and Priest

       By Lord Chief Rabbi Sacks. The sedra of Tetsaveh, as commentators have noted, has one unusual feature: it is the only...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Israel – The Source of Hope for All Mankind

      Rabbi Sacks was in Israel last week and spoke at Tel Chai College in the Galil.  I strongly recommend everyone, Jew...

• Blogs

  Yesh Atid initiates Knesset Torah study group

    This is a first for the Knesset and a great start to a new beginning. Party members hope Tuesday sessions will...

• Blogs

  Purim – An a capella Music Video Parody

    An a capella Purim music video parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads, foheads.com, graduates and students of Midreshet Ein Prat, Israel....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Essence of Ahavat Yisrael is the willingness to take responsibility for the future of the Jewish people

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner commentary by Yehuda HaKohen,  “Speak to the Children of Israel and they shall take to Me a...

• Blogs

  Theology, Identity, and Covenant

     By David Hartman Since Sunday, when David Hartman passed away, eulogies of this outstanding thinker and educator have appeared in a...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Building Builders – Terumah

       Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. As soon as we read the opening lines of Terumah we...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Learning to Live in God’s Love

    By Ariel Ben Avraham. Ego’s fantasies and illusions correspond to idolatry as Love’s ways and attributes correspond to real freedom. In...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  In The Details – Mishpatim

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. On the opening phrase of Mishpatim – “And these are the laws...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Yitro: From Ego’s Idolatry to Love’s Freedom

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner   Commentary By Ariel Ben Avraham  In our previous commentary on Yitro: “Understanding God’s Love” (February 5, 2012 in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Politics of Revelation

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner , Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks  The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only...

• Steve

  Final Results of the Israeli Election and Comments

     This election is a triumph for Democracy. The people have spoken. Now the powers that be need to create  a responsible...

• Blogs

  ‘A Big Society’ or ‘A Good Society’

  This is a brilliant and truly insightful understanding of  The State, Community and Society. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, I want this evening...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Loving Our Creator Unconditionally

     By Ariel Ben Avraham Probably the most important lesson our Patriarchs teach us regarding their relationship with the Creator is to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Does Judaism Have to Say to the World

  On 26th November 2012, the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks delivered the 2012-13 Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law and Thought at Berkeley Law....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Of Lice and Men

     Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Throughout all Egypt the dust turned into lice. But when the magicians...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Leadership and the People

     Sculpture by Artist Phillip Ratner  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. The sedra of Shemot, in a series of finely etched vignettes,...