All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"
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1.9KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Israel, The Gateway of Hope
“ISRAEL always was a tiny country, home to a tiny people, yet what our ancestors achieved there transformed the spiritual horizon of...
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1.4KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Circumcision of Desire
Jonathan Sacks There is the concept of chivalry that makes its appearance in the age of the Crusades, the code...
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2.2KGuest ContributorsEric Cohen – The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism
Eric Cohen About the author Eric Cohen is executive director of the Tikvah Fund. He is the author of In the Shadow...
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Blogs
Ariel Ben Avraham – Pesach: Between the Pyramid and the Circle
Pesach: Between the Pyramid and the Circle This Pesach we must reflect on what we left behind in Egypt, and what we...
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1.6KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Violence and the Sacred
Jonathan Sacks This is, of course, one of the deepest questions in Judaism, and there are many answers. Here...
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra
jonathan sacks Among the simplest yet most profound was the comment made by R. Shneor Zalman of Ladi, the first...
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1.8KBlogsBarry Shrage – From Birthright to Renaissance: Our Historic Opportunity
Barry Shrage argues that Birthright is the ‘miracle’ of our generation, impacting the identity of an entire generation. He makes the case...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Spirit of Community / Integrity in Public Life
Jonathan Sacks What do you do when your people has just made a golden calf, run riot and lost its sense...
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1.5KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Can there be Compassion without Justice?
Jonathan Sacks God then places Moses in a cleft in the rock face, telling him he will be able to...
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2.1KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Ethic of Holiness
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192679908″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”350″ iframe=”true” /] Jonathan Sacks For the first time in our parsha we encounter the idea of...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Gratitude of Labour – Terumah
There is an important principle in Judaism, a source of hope and also one of the structuring principles of the Torah....
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1.9KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Healing the Heart of Darkness
Jonathan Sacks On one occasion the Jobbik party asked for a list of all the Jews in the Hungarian government. Disturbingly,...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Structure of the Good Society
jonathan sacks Lord Jakobovits pointed to the large mural that decorates the chamber and gave it its name. It is...
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Blogs
Ariel Ben Avraham – The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLV) Isaiah
Ariel Ben Avraham: “With my soul have I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me have I sought...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Face of Evil
Jonathan Sacks In the wake of those events an American thinker Lee Harris wrote two books, Civilization and its Enemies...
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2.3KBlogsZohar Raviv – Between Unity and Uniformity – The Many Lenses of Jewish Education
Zohar Raviv: Between Unity and Uniformity: The Many Lenses of Israel Education Dr. Zohar Raviv, International VP of Education for...
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1.5KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Freewill ” The Ancient Question”
Jonathan Sacks How could it be right to punish Pharaoh and his people for a decision – a series of...
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1.6KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – On Not Obeying Immoral Orders
Jonathan Sacks: We do not know who they were. The Torah gives us no further information about them than that they...
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1.9KSteveIsrael Seen – Goes to Masada with Friends
Israel Seen Yesterday I joined two dear friends, Averil and Rabbi Lee Diamond and our driver Sagi at Masada where Rav....
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1.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Birth of Forgiveness
Jonathan Sacks There is such a moment in this week’s parsha, and in its way it may have been no...
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