All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"

• 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...

• 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...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  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...

• 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...