All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• 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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

               By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVI) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.     We have said that we need God’s...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Nation of Leaders – Yitro

                  By  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXV) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   “The burden of Babylon was seen by...

• Blogs

  David Hazony – The Ten Commandments – What Do They Really Mean Part I-5

  https://israelseen.com/shows/tenpart1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More Sculpture by Phillip Ratner David Hazony presents his insights on the Ten...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Looking Up – Beshallach

    By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. The impossible had happened. The mightiest army in the ancient...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIV) Isaiah

     Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.  As we begin to assimilate God’s ways and...

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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...