All posts tagged "Bible"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Sense of History

      Art by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Musem. Ki Tavo begins with the ceremony of bringing firstfruits to the Temple. The Mishnah...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Parameters of Justice

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Museum In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a...

• Guest Contributors

  Joshua in the Bible – Elie Wiesel

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum   Bible Review‘s Supporting Roles By Elie Wiesel   Joshua, the perfect disciple. Obedient and humble. The...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Danger of Suspicion – Mattot-Massei

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum  Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. It is a fascinating story and from it comes one...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  On Parents and Teachers

       Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratnermuseum.  Pinchas Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. Just beneath the surface of this week’s parshah is an exceptionally...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Balak: The Hardest Word To Hear

  Art by Phillip Ratner   The story of Bilaam, the pagan prophet, begins with a bewildering set of non-sequiturs – a sequence of...

• Guest Contributors

  Talking With Israel’s Ruth MK Calderon’s aims to ‘free and reclaim’ Judaism

       Jerusalem — In the hour she spent with 150 young Jewish entrepreneurs and social activists from around the world last Wednesday...

• Guest Contributors

  The God I Don’t Believe In

      Rabbi Richard A. Block  The search for Ultimate Truth is not an exclusively Jewish quest, but we’ve been at it longer...

• Blogs

  Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible

    A Conversation with Leon Kass   By Mosaic Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Why was Moses not destined to enter the Land?

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner It is one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Power vs. Influence

      The Korach rebellion was an unholy alliance of individuals and groups unhappy with Moses’ leadership. There was Korach himself, a member...

• Blogs

  The Ten Commandments Why the Decalogue Matters

    Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. A wonderful and important essay with creative insight and an inspiring message. By Leon R. Kass for...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Shelach Lecha – Beyond the Fringe

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Our sedra ends with one of the great commands of Judaism – tsitsit, the fringes we wear on...