All posts tagged "Bible"

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah Part II

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy

     Ariel Ben Avraham   “Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She hearkened not to the voice, she...

• Blogs

  Leadership Beyond Despair

    By Artist Phillip Ratner-ratnermuseum Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Future Tense – A Vision of Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture

      Why are we here? Why are we Jews? Why does the world need – if indeed it does – a Jewish...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Counts?

    Art by Phillip Ratner Commentary  By Rabbi Lord Sacks This week’s sedra begins with a continuation of the census begun in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Love as Law, Law as Love

                     By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftarah of Bemidbar are slender....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The modern world was shaped by four revolutions: The Chronological Imagination

  “I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological imagination.”  By...

• Blogs

  What Counts – The Study of the Counting of the Omer

       “A prophet is one who sees the end in the beginning. While others are at ease, he foresees the catastrophe. While...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Of Love and Hate

    Sculpture By Phillip Ratner  Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks At the centre of the mosaic books is Vayikra. At the centre...

• Steve

  Israel – Small But Outstanding

    Enjoy this this wonderful video that takes your breath away. Israel, a small country of outstanding beauty, is so many different...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Holiness and Childbirth

           A deeply profound explanation of this weeks Torah portion by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  The sidrot of Tazria and...

• Blogs

  Antisemitism matters because it’s an assault on humanity

    By Rabbi Lord Sacks. This coming Sunday is Yom Hashoah, the day we in the Jewish community observe our Holocaust Remembrance...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Fire – Holy and Unholy

     Sculpture by International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is a truly powerful interpretation/explanation of this weeks Torah reading.   By Rabbi Lord...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Redemption and the Rational Mind

     David Hartman, 1931-2013. Passover, Rabbi Prof. David Hartman wrote in 2010, is meant to celebrate and sustain our deep yearning for...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Pesach, or Passover, is the Jewish festival of freedom

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner . This past week my wife and I had the surprising pleasure of encountering  Rabbi Sacks and...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Rituals are how civilizations preserve their memory

       When people talk about religion in Britain, they tend to speak about beliefs. Which, for Jews, is very odd. Yes, belief...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzav – Violence and the Sacred

      By Rabbi Lord Sacks Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions – between universalism and particularism, for...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Between Destiny and Chance

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks  The third book of the Torah is known in English as...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Two Types of Community

    Art by Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. A long drama had taken place. Moses had led the people...

• Guest Contributors

  New Israeli MK Dr. Ruth Calderon Establishes a Refreshing Learning Environment

      It is no coincidence that maiden speech given by MK Ruth Calderon registered 150,000 viewers on YouTube. The new member of...