All posts tagged "Jewish mysticism"

• 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...

• 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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  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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Steve

  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...

• 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....

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  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...