All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"

• 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...

• Guest Contributors

  Joy of Israel Episode 3 – Holy Hebron and Sweet Hebron Hills

    Jamie Geller’s food and travel show takes you to Hebron. Visit MaArat HaMachpela, The Tomb of the Patriarchs and the ancient...

• 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...

• Guest Contributors

  On Creative Minorities – Rabbi Sacks – Erasmus Lecture

  On Monday 21st October 2013, Rabbi Sacks delivered the twenty-sixth Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club in New York. Hosted by First...

• 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...

• Blogs

  A miracle and an outrage in Washington

  By CAROLINE B. GLICK. Restoring the Iraqi Jewish archive to its Israeli owners would be tantamount to recognizing that the cause of...

• 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...

• Blogs

  American Jews Should Own Their Success!

      getty images. Biden’s Support: Vice President Biden who spoke at the year’s J Street conference has said “that Jewish heritage, Jewish...

• Blogs

  The Continuity of Israel will not falter.

  (Memories of a Hong Kong Rabbi) by Rabbi Lee Diamond   “Since antiquity, people have been predicting the demise of the Jews,...

• 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...

• Blogs

  Emigration campaign a lie

      Op-ed: Political agents who say ‘entire generation’ wants to leave Israel are conveniently ignoring facts. By Shaul Rosenfeld for Ynet News....

• 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...