All posts tagged "Bible"
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks -Descartes’ Error
Jonathan Sacks -Descartes’ Error In his recent bestseller, The Social Animal, New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: We are living in the...
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3.4KMark OkrentMark Okrent – There is a sacred connection in Parshat Korach
Mark Okrent – There is a sacred connection in Parshat Korach There is a sacred connection in Parshat Korach following Parshat Shelach,...
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1.6KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – A Lesson in Conflict Resolution
Jonathan Sacks – A Lesson in Conflict Resolution The Korach rebellion was the single most dangerous challenge to Moses’ leadership during the...
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1.4KSteveAriel Ben Avraham – Ecclesiastes: The illusion of vanity and the reality of love II
Ariel Ben Avraham – Ecclesiastes: The illusion of vanity and the reality of love II “What is that which has been? It...
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1.9KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Freedom Needs Patience
Jonathan Sacks – Freedom Needs Patience Whose idea was it to send the spies? According to this week’s sedra, it was God. The...
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1.6KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Leadership Beyond Despair
Jonathan Sacks – Leadership Beyond Despair Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with which it portrays human character....
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1.6KSteveAriel Ben Avraham – Ecclesiastes: The illusion of vanity and the reality of love
Ariel Ben Avraham – Ecclesiastes: The illusion of vanity and the reality of love “The words of Koheleth, the son of David,...
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Pursuit of Peace
Jonathan Sacks – The Pursuit of Peace Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The...
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2.2KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksRabbi Sacks – The Torah of Kindness and Truth
Rabbi Sacks – The Torah of Kindness and Truth Coming up to Shavuot, I would like to look at one tiny detail...
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Ever-Repeated Story
Jonathan Sacks – The Ever-Repeated Story Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people...
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2.3KGood News from IsraelThis Weeks Sanity Report from Israel May 14 2017
This Weeks Sanity Report from Israel May 14 2017 The highlights include: Israeli scientists discover protein that protects against Alzheimer’s disease. An...
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2.0KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Duality of Jewish Time
Jonathan Sacks – The Duality of Jewish Time Alongside the holiness of place and person is the holiness of time, something parshat...
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2.3KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Three Voices
Jonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Three Voices The nineteenth chapter of Vayikra, with which our parsha begins, is one of the supreme statements...
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2.0KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Is there such a thing as Lashon Tov (good speech)?
Jonathan Sacks – Is there such a thing as Lashon Tov (good speech)? The Sages understood tsara’at, the theme of this week’s parsha,...
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2.1KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Light We Make & The Mutation of Antisemitism
Jonathan Sacks – The Light We Make & The Mutation of Antisemitism The great moment has come. For seven days – beginning...
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2.0KSteveMichael Laitman – Exodus—How We Became a Nation, and How We Stopped Being One
Michael Laitman – Exodus—How We Became a Nation, and How We Stopped Being One Next week we will celebrate the liberation of...
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1.7K1Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Why Civilisations Die & Video for Passover
Jonathan Sacks – Why Civilisations Die & Video for Passover In her recent “The Watchman’s Rattle”, subtitled ‘Thinking our way out of...
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Sin Offering
Jonathan Sacks – The Sin Offering Vayikra is about sacrifices, and though these laws have been inoperative for almost 2000 years since...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Encampments & Journeys
Jonathan Sacks – Encampments & Journeys Right at the end of the book of Shemot, there is a textual difficulty so slight...
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Sabbath: First Day or Last?
Jonathan Sacks – The Sabbath: First Day or Last? In the immensely lengthy and detailed account of the making of the Tabernacle,...
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