All posts tagged "Judaism"

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  A World Without Jews

  A mosaic featuring St Paul is displayed over the chapel of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls on December 12, 2006 in...

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  How do we build a house for God to live in us?

   llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar  By Ariel Ben Avraham . How do we build a house for God to...

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  Building Builders – Terumah

       Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. As soon as we read the opening lines of Terumah we...

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  The Legacy of Rabbi David Hartman: Popularity is not important. Integrity is

  By David Bedein. David Bedein is a  dear friend who is devoted and dedicated  to understanding the “real” intent behind the language...

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  Learning to Live in God’s Love

    By Ariel Ben Avraham. Ego’s fantasies and illusions correspond to idolatry as Love’s ways and attributes correspond to real freedom. In...

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  The Hijacking of Judaism

    By Zahava D. Englard Author & Freelance Writer.  One day, I would like to practice classical Judaism. You know, the true...

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  Yitro: From Ego’s Idolatry to Love’s Freedom

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner   Commentary By Ariel Ben Avraham  In our previous commentary on Yitro: “Understanding God’s Love” (February 5, 2012 in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Politics of Revelation

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner , Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks  The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only...

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  Lapid on Religious Pluralism in Israel and Jerusalem Unfiltered

        YAIR LAPID   Itamar Ben-Ami. Yair Lapid the leader of the new Yesh Yatid party with 19 seats in the new...

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  Final Results of the Israeli Election and Comments

     This election is a triumph for Democracy. The people have spoken. Now the powers that be need to create  a responsible...

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  Loving Our Creator Unconditionally

     By Ariel Ben Avraham Probably the most important lesson our Patriarchs teach us regarding their relationship with the Creator is to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Does Judaism Have to Say to the World

  On 26th November 2012, the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks delivered the 2012-13 Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law and Thought at Berkeley Law....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Of Lice and Men

     Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Throughout all Egypt the dust turned into lice. But when the magicians...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Leadership and the People

     Sculpture by Artist Phillip Ratner  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. The sedra of Shemot, in a series of finely etched vignettes,...

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  The Blessings of Israel’s Identity

    By Ariel Ben Avraham   The last portion of the first book of the Torah ends with the death of Joseph, after...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Generations Forget and Remember

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The drama of younger and older brothers, which haunts the book of Bereishit from Cain...

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  An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism

       By A. B. Yehoshua.  A prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred.   Editor’s note from...

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  Love as the Messianic Consciousness

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner   By Ariel Ben Avraham  Love overcomes and transforms negative expressions of human consciousness. This sounds axiomatic considering...

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  In Israel Bearing Arms is a Priviledge not a Right

           By Mitch Ginsburg Times of Israel   In Israel, unlike the US, a privilege — but no right — to bear...

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  Disguises – Do They Work

    Art work by Phillip Ratner       Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass....