All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVI) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. We have said that we need God’s...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
A Nation of Leaders – Yitro
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXV) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The burden of Babylon was seen by...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Looking Up – Beshallach
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. The impossible had happened. The mightiest army in the ancient...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIV) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. As we begin to assimilate God’s ways and...
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Blogs
The Far Horizon – Bo
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of this week’s parsha, I often ask an audience to...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Messianic Consciousness is an integrating, comprising, encompassing...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Overcoming Setbacks – Vaera
At first, Moses’ mission seemed to be successful. He had feared that the people would not believe in him, but God had...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Women as Leaders
This week’s parsha could be entitled “The birth of a leader.” We see Moses, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, growing up as...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . The Prophet continues describing the qualities of...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Kiddush Hashem ( the sanctification of God’s name) in a Complicated World
Last month, Rabbi Sacks visited communities in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Speaking at the Beit Knesset Feigenson, Rabbi Sacks delivered a lecture where he explored the...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXI) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . In his three following chapters (7-10) the...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Surviving Failure – Vayechi
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Bereishit ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Unexpected Leader – Vayigash
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. I was once present when the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, was asked to predict the course...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXX) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . The vision of Isaiah in Heaven is...
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Guest Contributors
The Two Faces of Messianism
(Adapted by the Author from “Du-Partsufin shel ha-meshihiyut,” which first appeared in Bezalel Naor, Avirin [Jerusalem, 5740/1980], pp. 16-24) Copyright ©...
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Algemeiner News Service
Jewish Meditation: The Daily Practice of Giving Thanks
Meditation. Photo: Moyan Brenn (http://bit.ly/1bblSdI) on Flickr’s Creative Commons. “In my youth the Beatles, notably George Harrison, introduced us to Transcendental Meditation...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIX) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . We indicated in the beginning of these...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Power of Dreams – Mikketz
In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...
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Stories of the Baal Shem Tov for Chanukah
The Baal Shem Tov had a special custom when the month of Kislev arrived. In the evening, he would gather together...
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