All posts tagged "kabbalah"

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  The Far Horizon – Bo

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of this week’s parsha, I often ask an audience to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIII) Isaiah

     Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Messianic Consciousness is an integrating, comprising, encompassing...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Overcoming Setbacks – Vaera

  At first, Moses’ mission seemed to be successful. He had feared that the people would not believe in him, but God had...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Women as Leaders

     This week’s parsha could be entitled “The birth of a leader.” We see Moses, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, growing up as...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXI) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   In his three following chapters (7-10) the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Surviving Failure – Vayechi

     By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Bereishit ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Unexpected Leader – Vayigash

  By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.  I was once present when the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, was asked to predict the course...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXX) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   The vision of Isaiah in Heaven is...

• Algemeiner News Service

  Jewish Meditation: The Daily Practice of Giving Thanks

   Meditation. Photo: Moyan Brenn (http://bit.ly/1bblSdI) on Flickr’s Creative Commons. “In my youth the Beatles, notably George Harrison, introduced us to Transcendental Meditation...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIX) Isaiah

     Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   We indicated in the beginning of these...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Dreams – Mikketz

     In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVIII) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . Our consciousness faces devastation with ego’s fantasies...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Praise – Vayeshev

    Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Thyself – Vayishlach

    By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVII) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  We must always be aware that we are an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Light in Dark Times – Vayetse

  By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVI) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   We have said that in the Messianic Consciousness...

• Steve

  Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

    I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men’s Retreat in upstate in New...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Silence

     By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXV) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   One of the most important lessons we learn from...