All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Confidence – Hope is the belief that together we can make things better.

    Confidence “Optimism is the belief that things will get better; hope is the belief that together we can make things better.”...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Influence or Power? Beha’alotcha

    Influence or Power ; Sculpture by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum. Commentary By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a lovely moment in this...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Double Celebration A Thought on Shavuot from Rabbi Sacks

      The festival of Shavuot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Here is how Shavuot is described and defined in parsha...

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  Why we read the book of Ruth on Shavuot

      Art by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum   Commentary By Atar Hadari for Mosaic Magazine Shavuot: It’s impossible to describe the sound of good...

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  The Story of the Jews – Episode 5 – Return

        Story of the Jews. This epic five-part series presented by historian Simon Schama explores the story of the Jewish experience...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Politics of Envy – Naso

    Politics of Envy. Few things in the Torah are more revolutionary than its conception of leadership.  by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Politics...

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  The Story of the Jews – Episode 1 – In the Beginning

      The Story of the Jews. This epic five-part series presented by historian Simon Schama explores the story of the Jewish experience...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Leading a Nation of Individuals – Bamidbar

      Nation of Individuals. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why...

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  Religious liberty’s under threat — on both sides of the pond

       Religious liberty’s under threat : By Daniel Treiman Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Religious liberty’s under threat — on both sides of the pond. “Today,...

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  As we count the עומר some words about counting from Ha Rav Kook

      Ha Rav Kook: What value is there to our lives, which “stream by like a dream“?     Thanks to Rabbi Lee...

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  Always Reaching Higher – Ari and the Ladder of Faith

      Always Reaching Higher  Rabbi Lee Diamond,  is based in Israel and began his unique rabbinate as an Israel Educator for the Diaspora....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Jonathan Sacks “We The People”

             We The People.  By Rav. Jonathan Sacks.  In Bechukotai, in the midst of one of the most...

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  Why is ‘Isra’el’ not (only) the State of the Jewish People

      In the debate whether Israel is “the State of the Jewish People” we should note how this name was proposed by...

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  Think Long – Behar – Jonathan Sacks

    By Jonathan Sacks Please take the time and read this weeks commentary. His insights transcend  personal religious  identity.   Jonathan Sacks:...

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  Be Not Afraid of Greatness – Israel – Jonathan Sacks

                   Be Not Afraid of Greatness: By Rav Jonathan Sacks.  Embedded in this week’s parsha are two of the most fundamental commands...

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  Followership – Kedoshim – the Great “holiness code”

   Followership By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Seasons of Love – Three biblical books about love

  Seasons of Love:Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes     By Rav. Jonathan Sacks   Seasons of Love   Shir HaShirim...

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  Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question

    Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked”...

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  Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task

        All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...

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  Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot

      Sprints and Marathons   By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...