All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• Blogs

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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:...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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”...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah

                By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary

     The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...

• Zohar Raviv

  Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series

      In this period after Purim  and with Passover just around the corner  we thought it appropriate to share this four...

• Blogs

  Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.

  “If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Guest Contributors

  A Wonderful Story: 114 year old Kurdish Rabbi in Jerusalem

  From Rudaw.net:   By Lazar Berman. In a humble apartment in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, about a mile south of the walls of the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh

          One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Home We Build Together – Terumah

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...

• Blogs

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVII) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   The Prophet makes us reflect on our identity...