All posts tagged "Bible"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Leadership and the People

     Sculpture by Artist Phillip Ratner  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. The sedra of Shemot, in a series of finely etched vignettes,...

• Good News from Israel

  News of Israel’s Achievements and Heartwarming Stories from the Jewish State.

    Israel’s organ donor program is a success for all Israelis, regardless of religion or age  Some very special workers make parts...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Generations Forget and Remember

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The drama of younger and older brothers, which haunts the book of Bereishit from Cain...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love as the Messianic Consciousness

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner   By Ariel Ben Avraham  Love overcomes and transforms negative expressions of human consciousness. This sounds axiomatic considering...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Disguises – Do They Work

    Art work by Phillip Ratner       Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love is the catalyst to transform, redeem and elevate

      Sculpture By Phillip Ratner.  Mikeitz: Rectifying toward God’s Love We have said that consciousness has the potentials to transform what we...

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  The First War of National Liberation

      The first Book of Maccabees describes the military victory that became part of the story of Hanukkah.  But the book did...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Inspired By Faith We Can Change The World

                    The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has recorded “8 Thoughts for 8 Nights” – a...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Refusal to be Comforted

    Jacob rent his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned his son for a long time. His sons and daughters tried to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vayishlach – Fear or Distress

     Sculpture By Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum.com   “A people capable of feeling distress, even in victory, is one that knows the tragic complexity...

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  I Will Be What I Will Be- Coming-Into-Being

      By Yoram Hazony.    Is God perfect? You often hear philosophers describe “theism” as the belief in a perfect being...

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  The first taste of a shelter

    Efrat, Israel By Harvey Tannenbaum .Harvey Tannenbaum. A native Californian who moved to Efrat, Israel in 1998 and works as an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How democratic were the children of Israel?

    Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks reviews leading American thinker Michael Walzer’s book on politics in the Bible. “Freedom was at the heart...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  COVENANT & CONVERSATION: Vayetze – Encountering G-d

     Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks   Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “G-d is truly in this place, but I...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Toldot – Between Prophecy and Oracle – Relevant Today

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  “the future is never as straightforward as we are led to believe. Abraham is promised many children...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  My Conversation With the Chief

  By Yoram Hazony. In Britain, you meet quite a few Jews who refer to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks simply as “the Chief.” True,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Hopes and Fears – Chayei Sarah

      The simple answer is because they happened. That, however, cannot be all. We misunderstand Torah if we think of it...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Even Higher Than Angels

  Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be? But if I am only for myself, what am I?”

  The Jewish community could not exist for a day without its volunteers’ By Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi. Volunteering has been undervalued in...

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  The Biblical Case for Limited Government

  By Yoram Hazony This is a version of an essay that appeared in the October 2012 issue of First Things. The original...