All posts tagged "Bible"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Surviving Failure – Vayechi

     By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Bereishit ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Unexpected Leader – Vayigash

  By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.  I was once present when the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, was asked to predict the course...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXX) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   The vision of Isaiah in Heaven is...

• Guest Contributors

  The Two Faces of Messianism

     (Adapted by the Author from “Du-Partsufin shel ha-meshihiyut,” which first appeared in Bezalel Naor, Avirin [Jerusalem, 5740/1980], pp. 16-24) Copyright ©...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIX) Isaiah

     Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   We indicated in the beginning of these...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Dreams – Mikketz

     In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Praise – Vayeshev

    Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Thyself – Vayishlach

    By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVII) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  We must always be aware that we are an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Light in Dark Times – Vayetse

  By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...

• Steve

  Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

    I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men’s Retreat in upstate in New...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Silence

     By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXV) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   One of the most important lessons we learn from...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Beginning the Journey

     A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...

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  Most Powerful – “Let a bit of Water be Brought”

  This commentary is by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z”l, from the book: The Torah Commentary of Rabbi Shlomo Calebach, Urim Publications. His commentary...

• Cyber Or

  The Age of Light – Cyber Or 5

     And the journey continues once again . Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror, z”l continues to unpack the secrets in the Biblical texts....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Answering the Call

    The early history of humanity as told in the Torah is a series of disappointments. God gives human beings freedom, which...

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  Parashat Lekh-Lekha – The Semantic Insights

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner.  Dr Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. This week we continue explaining semantically encoded messages in this week’s Parasha Lekh Lekha....

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  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIII) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar by.  Ariel Ben Avraham “And it shall come to pass in the end of...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Courage not to Conform

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner Lekh Lekha By Rabbi  Sacks  Leaders lead. That does not mean to say that they don’t follow....