All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVIII) Jeremiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . The most persecuted, humiliated and oppressed of all Jewish Prophets was Jeremiah. Not...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Torah as God’s Song

      At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s behest 612 commands, Moses is instructed to give them...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Sense of History

      Art by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Musem. Ki Tavo begins with the ceremony of bringing firstfruits to the Temple. The Mishnah...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Parameters of Justice

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Museum In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a...

• Guest Contributors

  Joshua in the Bible – Elie Wiesel

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum   Bible Review‘s Supporting Roles By Elie Wiesel   Joshua, the perfect disciple. Obedient and humble. The...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVI) Ezekiel

    Our Sages teach us that the Creator’s ways and attributes are all good and righteous. We realize this if we take...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Testing Prophecy – A prophet is not an oracle: a prophecy is not a prediction

          Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Judaism’s Social Vision

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum . If you seek to understand Judaism’s social vision, look at its anti-poverty legislation. “It demeans,...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part V – Final Session

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More     Session Five: The Song of Songs – Shalom and shleimut-peace...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part IV

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More    Session Four: The Song of Existence – Linking with all creation. This...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Ekev – Greatness and Humility

    By Rabbi Lord Sacks.  A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part III

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More   Session Three: The Song of Humankind – The universal imperative. This series...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XII) Obadiah

    “The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord God concerning Edom (…)” (Obadiah 1:1) In the book of Genesis, the Torah...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzedek: Justice and Compassion

    Art by  Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Danger of Suspicion – Mattot-Massei

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum  Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. It is a fascinating story and from it comes one...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rav Kook Revolution Part I

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More   Session One: The Song of the Self – Self-actualization and God  By...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  On Parents and Teachers

       Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratnermuseum.  Pinchas Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. Just beneath the surface of this week’s parshah is an exceptionally...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Balak: The Hardest Word To Hear

  Art by Phillip Ratner   The story of Bilaam, the pagan prophet, begins with a bewildering set of non-sequiturs – a sequence of...

• Guest Contributors

  The God I Don’t Believe In

      Rabbi Richard A. Block  The search for Ultimate Truth is not an exclusively Jewish quest, but we’ve been at it longer...

• Blogs

  Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible

    A Conversation with Leon Kass   By Mosaic Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The...