All posts tagged "Bible"
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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