All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"

• 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....

• Assaf Erez

  Israelseen’s Assaf Erez – the Spinoza Guy

         Our  regular photography contributor to israelseen is Assaf Erez. He is a devoted amateur photographer who possesses the uncanny ability of...

• 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...

• 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,...

• Guest Contributors

  Israel – A Nation Connected By Fishing Line

  By Lisa Brink A blogger after my own heart once wrote: [Israel is] like a big family crowded into a too small...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

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

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Blogs

  David Hazony – The Ten Commandments – What Do They Really Mean Part I-5

  https://israelseen.com/shows/tenpart1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More Sculpture by Phillip Ratner David Hazony presents his insights on the Ten...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Good News from Israel

  Israel – This Weeks Good News – Dec. 22,2013 – Innovations and Creativity

    The highlights include:  An Israeli biotech has developed a new chemical that can treat multiple diseases. An Israeli optical device can...

• 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...

• 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...