All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"
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80Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Letting Go of Hate Ki Teitse
Jonathan Sacks: Letting Go of Hate Ki Teitse Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out...
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128Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Greatness is Humility SHOFTIM
Jonathan Sacks: Greatness is Humility SHOFTIM There is a fascinating detail in the passage about the king in this week’s Parsha. The...
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159Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Politics of Freedom Re’eh
Jonathan Sacks: The Politics of Freedom Re’eh Having set out the broad principles of the covenant, Moses now turns to the details,...
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183Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks:The Morality of Love Eikev
Jonathan Sacks: The Morality of Love Eikev Something implicit in the Torah from the very beginning becomes explicit in the book of...
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215Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: A Tiny, Treasured People Va’etchanan
Jonathan Sacks: A Tiny, Treasured People Va’etchanan There is a statement made towards the end of Parshat Va’etchanan, and it is so...
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184Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Profits and Prophets Devarim
Jonathan Sacks: Profits and Prophets Devarim There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter...
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221Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Prophetic Voice MATOT-MASEI
Jonathan Sacks: The Prophetic Voice MATOT-MASEI During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as we recall the destruction of...
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273Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON PARSHAT PINCHAS: HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT PINCHAS: HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT Parshat Pinchas begins by honoring Aaron’s grandson, Pinchas for his zealous...
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255Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas
Jonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas With Pinchas a new type enters the world of Israel: the zealot. “Pinchas son of Eleazar, son...
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278Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES
RAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT BALAK: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES In Parshat Balak, the Torah recounts...
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337Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Not Reckoned Among the Nations-בלקBalak
Jonathan Sacks: Not Reckoned Among the Nations-בלקBalak The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the...
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249Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT
Jonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT It is a scene that still has the power to shock and disturb. The people complain. There...
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287Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT...
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281Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM
Rav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM “Now Korach, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi,...
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292Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH
Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 “You have gone too far! The whole community is...
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296Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha
Jonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they...
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307Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA
Jonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA It was the emotional low of Moses’ life. After the drama at Sinai,...
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448Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Ever-Repeated Story BAMIDBAR
Jonathan Sacks: The Ever-Repeated Story BAMIDBAR Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people...
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453Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai
Jonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai As I was writing this essay, a newspaper headline caught my eye....
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401Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor
Jonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor Our Parsha begins with a restriction on the people for whom a kohen may become tamei,...
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