All posts tagged "Judaism"
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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,...
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Blogs
Dispelling Nine Myths About Women of the Wall
getty images. Prayerful Protest: A member of Women of the Wall prays at the Kotel at the group’s monthly event. “At...
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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 ...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Guest Contributors
The Rav Kook Revolution – Master of the Lights
The author, Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein, declaims Rav Kook’s poetry as Rabbi Greg Wall leads his band, Greg...
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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...
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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...
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Blogs
Leadership Beyond Despair
By Artist Phillip Ratner-ratnermuseum Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Future Tense – A Vision of Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture
Why are we here? Why are we Jews? Why does the world need – if indeed it does – a Jewish...
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Alma Beit Midrash Series
The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah
https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
10 Questions We Want Answers To – in 4 minutes or less
The Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has recorded a series of short videos in answer to some of the most basic...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
What Counts?
Art by Phillip Ratner Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks This week’s sedra begins with a continuation of the census begun in...
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Blogs
Michael Kagan PHD Conversation on Shavuot-Giving of the Decalogue.
https://israelseen.com/shows/Michael%20Kagen%20Shavuot.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More This was originally broadcasted in 2009. Dr. Kagan was interviewed by my...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Love as Law, Law as Love
By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftarah of Bemidbar are slender....
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The modern world was shaped by four revolutions: The Chronological Imagination
“I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological imagination.” By...
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Blogs
‘Lost tribe of Israel’ found in Papua New Guinea?
Scholar known as “British Indiana Jones,” Florida International University religious studies professor Tudor Parfitt: “The Gogodala wear yarmulkes [kippot] and prayer...
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Blogs
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (I) Micah
By Ariel Ben Avraham “And in the end of days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the...
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Blogs
What Counts – The Study of the Counting of the Omer
“A prophet is one who sees the end in the beginning. While others are at ease, he foresees the catastrophe. While...
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