All posts tagged "Judaism"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  HaShem is not some giant invisible tyrant but rather the timeless ultimate Reality

  PARSHAT VA’ETCHANAN (by Yehuda HaKohen) “I implored HaShem at that time, saying, `My L-rd, HaShem, You have begun to show Your servant...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Va’etchanan: The Lord is our God, the Lord is One

  By Ariel Ben Avraham. We must conceive our connection and relationship with God as part of Him. This is the main lesson...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  A LOVE For The WORLD

  Rav Kook; transl. Rabbi B.Z. Bokser. “Great souls cannot dissociate themselves from the most universal concerns…The whole cannot achieve its highest fulfillment...

• Steve

  Liberty Patriarchs and Pioneers – The Search for Freedom and Individual Responsiblity

  “Go ye!” – Patriarchs and Pioneers by Kenneth Hanson  .“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the...

• Algemeiner News Service

  Why Are We Afraid to Speak the Real Truth About Israel?

      The famous Israeli flag above the Choshen building in East Jerusalem signifies Jewish presence. Photo: JewishPress.com. By Yosef Y. Jacobson. This...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Devarim: Facing the Material World

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb [Sinai], [and] said: ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey forth (…)’” (Deuteronomy 1:6-7)...

• Algemeiner News Service

  The Prophetic Voice

        Art By Phillip Ratner   By Jonathan Sacks During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Matot-Massei: Enforcing our Connection with God’s Love

  By Ariel Ben Avraham . We mentioned in previous commentaries that the war against the potential negative trends in our consciousness must...

• Steve

  Friday Evening Bet Tfila at the Port in Tel Aviv

  By Steve Ornstein. July 13th 2012 Friday Night Kabbalah Shabbat Evening Service with videos.   httpv://youtu.be/rpA7u0EtuCE httpv://youtu.be/a5CKSwrTRHc httpv://youtu.be/IoKAnbp2ZWE

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Pinchas: Priesthood as the Highest Level of Consciousness

  By Ariel Ben Avraham Consciousness is a multidimensional space that encompasses all aspects, traits and qualities that shape human identity. These dimensions...

• Steve

  Europe’s New Anti-Semitism – Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. In May 2007 a small group of religious leaders met in the E.U. headquarters in Brussels with...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Balak: The Blessings of Love’s Ways and Attributes

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. In the dual perception of the material world we are compelled to make choices every moment, and the...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Rav Kook on Relating Israel and Humankind – Part II

  Translated by Itzhaq Marmorstein; comments by Yitzhaq Hayut-Man.  We bring here two more entries of Rav Kook relating Israel and humankind,  ...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Chukat: Living God’s Commandments

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar By Ariel Ben Avraham  We have said frequently that the Torah defines our Jewish...

• Blogs

  The RE-EMERGING Jews of Nigeria

  A Documentary Film by Jeff L. Lieberman www.re-emergingfilm.com. Several years ago, the Internet was introduced into the more rural parts of southeast...

• Steve

  Facing Tomorrow 2012: Sharansky, Cotler Discuss – Jewish & Democratic Values in Israel

  June 20, 2012 – Jerusalem, Israel – Hebrew University President and former Knesset member Professor Menahem Ben Sasson led a panel of...

• Blogs

  Seven principles of Jewish leadership – A Must Read

  By JONATHAN SACKS. Leaders must be relentless learners and believe in the people they lead.   I was recently asked to write...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Twelve Tribes of Israel

  By Ariel Ben Avraham. We have said that the Jewish identity encompasses multidimensional facets contained in the twelve Tribes of Israel, and...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Behaalotecha: Living in Love’s Ways and Means

  By Ariel Ben Avraham .“So it was, whenever the ark [of the Covenant between God and Israel] set out, Moses would say,...

• Steve

  The Finkler Question – Jews’ Irrational Hatred of Israel

  This was first published in 2010 by the JPost. Yoram found this piece and we wanted to share it with our readers....