All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Politics of Envy – Naso

    Politics of Envy. Few things in the Torah are more revolutionary than its conception of leadership.  by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Politics...

• Blogs

  The Story of the Jews – Episode 3 – A Leap of Faith

              Story of the Jews. This epic five-part series presented by historian Simon Schama explores the story of...

• Steve

  The Story of the Jews – Episode 1 – In the Beginning

      The Story of the Jews. This epic five-part series presented by historian Simon Schama explores the story of the Jewish experience...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Leading a Nation of Individuals – Bamidbar

      Nation of Individuals. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why...

• Blogs

  Always Reaching Higher – Ari and the Ladder of Faith

      Always Reaching Higher  Rabbi Lee Diamond,  is based in Israel and began his unique rabbinate as an Israel Educator for the Diaspora....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Jonathan Sacks “We The People”

             We The People.  By Rav. Jonathan Sacks.  In Bechukotai, in the midst of one of the most...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Think Long – Behar – Jonathan Sacks

    By Jonathan Sacks Please take the time and read this weeks commentary. His insights transcend  personal religious  identity.   Jonathan Sacks:...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Not Afraid of Greatness – Israel – Jonathan Sacks

                   Be Not Afraid of Greatness: By Rav Jonathan Sacks.  Embedded in this week’s parsha are two of the most fundamental commands...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Followership – Kedoshim – the Great “holiness code”

   Followership By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Seasons of Love – Three biblical books about love

  Seasons of Love:Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes     By Rav. Jonathan Sacks   Seasons of Love   Shir HaShirim...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question

    Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked”...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task

        All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot

      Sprints and Marathons   By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah

                By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary

     The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –

    By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...

• Zohar Raviv

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

      In this period after Purim  and with Passover just around the corner  we thought it appropriate to share this four...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLIII) Isaiah

    By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . Messianic Consciousness by Ariel Ben Avraham. We must understand Jewish prophecy...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Sins of a Leader – Vayikra

  Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...