All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVIII) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . Our consciousness faces devastation with ego’s fantasies...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Praise – Vayeshev

    Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Thyself – Vayishlach

    By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVII) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  We must always be aware that we are an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Light in Dark Times – Vayetse

  By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVI) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   We have said that in the Messianic Consciousness...

• Steve

  Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

    I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men’s Retreat in upstate in New...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Silence

     By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXV) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   One of the most important lessons we learn from...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Beginning the Journey

     A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Most Powerful – “Let a bit of Water be Brought”

  This commentary is by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z”l, from the book: The Torah Commentary of Rabbi Shlomo Calebach, Urim Publications. His commentary...

• Cyber Or

  The Age of Light – Cyber Or 5

     And the journey continues once again . Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror, z”l continues to unpack the secrets in the Biblical texts....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIV) Isaíah

    llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  The Prophet scolds his people for rejecting their...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Answering the Call

    The early history of humanity as told in the Torah is a series of disappointments. God gives human beings freedom, which...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Parashat Lekh-Lekha – The Semantic Insights

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner.  Dr Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. This week we continue explaining semantically encoded messages in this week’s Parasha Lekh Lekha....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIII) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar by.  Ariel Ben Avraham “And it shall come to pass in the end of...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Courage not to Conform

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner Lekh Lekha By Rabbi  Sacks  Leaders lead. That does not mean to say that they don’t follow....

• Cyber Or

  CyberOr 3 Sand and Light

        The correlation of Abraham’s journey with our cyber journey goes much further and deeper. In the narrative of the...

• Blogs

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXII) Isaiah

    llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar by.  Ariel Ben Avraham  Our Sages call Isaiah the Prophet of consolation, in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Righteousness is not Leadership

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner    The praise that Noah is accorded is unparalleled anywhere in Tanakh. He was, says the Torah,...