All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XI) Haggai

     By Ariel Ben Avraham “Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying: ‘Is it a time for...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzedek: Justice and Compassion

    Art by  Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Danger of Suspicion – Mattot-Massei

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum  Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. It is a fascinating story and from it comes one...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rav Kook Revolution Part I

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More   Session One: The Song of the Self – Self-actualization and God  By...

• Guest Contributors

  Jewish Educational Options

      By Laurie Rappeport. Today the majority of formal Jewish education in North America takes place in day school and afternoon/Sunday school...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Balak: The Hardest Word To Hear

  Art by Phillip Ratner   The story of Bilaam, the pagan prophet, begins with a bewildering set of non-sequiturs – a sequence of...

• Guest Contributors

  Talking With Israel’s Ruth MK Calderon’s aims to ‘free and reclaim’ Judaism

       Jerusalem — In the hour she spent with 150 young Jewish entrepreneurs and social activists from around the world last Wednesday...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy

    By Ariel Ben Avraham Shalom, everyone. As we love ourselves enough to refine and enhance all levels of consciousness under God’s...

• Guest Contributors

  The God I Don’t Believe In

      Rabbi Richard A. Block  The search for Ultimate Truth is not an exclusively Jewish quest, but we’ve been at it longer...

• Blogs

  Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible

    A Conversation with Leon Kass   By Mosaic Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah – Final Lecture

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregevfinal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More   This is the last session of an amazing series on the...

• Steve

  Shema by Anna Brooks (Shema Yisrael)

      This is a beautiful music video by Singer Anna Brooks that I hope will inspire you as we begin to prepare...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Why was Moses not destined to enter the Land?

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner It is one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd,...

• Steve

  Yeshayahu Leibowitz 1903-1994

       After viewing this  interview with Leibowitz  we decided it is worth making this available to our readers. There is no doubt ...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah Part III

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More      The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Power vs. Influence

      The Korach rebellion was an unholy alliance of individuals and groups unhappy with Moses’ leadership. There was Korach himself, a member...

• Blogs

  The Ten Commandments Why the Decalogue Matters

    Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. A wonderful and important essay with creative insight and an inspiring message. By Leon R. Kass for...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Shelach Lecha – Beyond the Fringe

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Our sedra ends with one of the great commands of Judaism – tsitsit, the fringes we wear on...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah Part II

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy

     Ariel Ben Avraham   “Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She hearkened not to the voice, she...