All posts tagged "Bible"

• 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...

• Guest Contributors

  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...

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  Finding your Jewish identity in a secular world

                    The Chief Rabbi recently spoke at the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Covenant & Conversation: Lech Lecha – Making Space

    By Artist Phillip Ratner.  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks  The call to Abraham, with which Lech Lecha begins, seems to come...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Yoram on Avrum and the Binding of Issac – Akaida

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner By Yoram Getzler. Recently Avraham Burg, who is known as Avrum wrote an essay on the Binding of...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Noach – True Morality

         by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks   Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular...

• Zohar Raviv

  Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series

  In this period after  the New Year we thought it appropriate to share this four part series of lectures by Zohar Raviv...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Investigation of The SERVANT NATION in the Haphtarah of Genesis

  Artist Phillip Ratner By Dr.  Yitzhaq Hayut-Man This last Shabbat (13.10.12) started a new yearly cycle of the reading of the Torah...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Who creates, sustains and affectionately empowers all that exists

      The Torah begins with the dawn of Creation. To fully appreciate this narrative, one must recognize history to be more than...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  In The Beginning – “What is man that You are mindful of him?”

      Rabbi Isaac said: The Torah should have begun with the verse (Ex. 12: 1): “This month shall be to you...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Learn from Moshe that all of Am Yisrael is holy and deserving of our patience, understanding and love.

    by Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum PARSHAT VEZOT HABRACHA (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Fortunate are you, O Israel: who is like you! O people...

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  There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah

  Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...

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  One day of doubt – One Day of Forgiveness

  On Yom Kippur God reminds us that most atrocities are committed in the name of ‘justice’ By Yair Lapid.   Yair Lapid...

• Steve

  Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre and Who by Fire

  Enjoy these two videos. May your New Year be filled with Health, Peace and Love. httpv://youtu.be/T2RrErhVxks http://rebshlomocarlebach.blogspot.com/ Reb Shlomo Carlebach -Yom Kippur...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Moshe went and spoke these words to all of Israel

  PARSHAT VAYEILECH by Yehuda HaKohen. This is another point of view on this portion of the Torah for the Shabbat before Yom...

• Guest Contributors

  The prayers of the High Holidays rest on personal responsibility—the basis of self-government

  The Whispers of Democracy in Ancient Judaism. By ERIC ROSENBERG . Jews are in the midst of a period known as the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Powerful Pre-Rosh Hashanah address by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England

            This is a wonderfully inspirational address for  Jew and non-Jew alike . Have you ever wondered what Professor Ludwig Guttmann (the...