All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"

• 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...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLII) Isaiah

  By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . Messianic Consciousness by Ariel Ben Avraham.    The Prophet predicts (chapters 20-23) the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

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  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLI) Isaiah

    By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   “The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Guest Contributors

  A Wonderful Story: 114 year old Kurdish Rabbi in Jerusalem

  From Rudaw.net:   By Lazar Berman. In a humble apartment in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, about a mile south of the walls of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XL) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.“For you have forgotten the God of your redemption, and...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIX) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   In the entire chapter 15 the Prophet denounces the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh

          One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVIII) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  The Creator through the Prophet reiterates His...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Home We Build Together – Terumah

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...

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  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVII) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   The Prophet makes us reflect on our identity...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

               By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...