All posts tagged "kabbalah"
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Refusal to be Comforted
Jacob rent his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned his son for a long time. His sons and daughters tried to...
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Guest Contributors
Safed – The City of Kabbalah – Mysticism
By Laurie Rappeport. Travelers to Northern Israel can enjoy a fascinating visit to the ancient city of Safed, known as the...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Vayishlach – Fear or Distress
Sculpture By Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum.com “A people capable of feeling distress, even in victory, is one that knows the tragic complexity...
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Blogs
I Will Be What I Will Be- Coming-Into-Being
By Yoram Hazony. Is God perfect? You often hear philosophers describe “theism” as the belief in a perfect being...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Elimination of Violence against Women
By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks This week’s parsha of Vayetze contains much about family relationships and conflict. Jacob, in love with...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
How democratic were the children of Israel?
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks reviews leading American thinker Michael Walzer’s book on politics in the Bible. “Freedom was at the heart...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
COVENANT & CONVERSATION: Vayetze – Encountering G-d
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “G-d is truly in this place, but I...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Toldot – Between Prophecy and Oracle – Relevant Today
By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. “the future is never as straightforward as we are led to believe. Abraham is promised many children...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
My Conversation With the Chief
By Yoram Hazony. In Britain, you meet quite a few Jews who refer to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks simply as “the Chief.” True,...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Hopes and Fears – Chayei Sarah
The simple answer is because they happened. That, however, cannot be all. We misunderstand Torah if we think of it...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Even Higher Than Angels
Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to...
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Guest Contributors
The Biblical Case for Limited Government
By Yoram Hazony This is a version of an essay that appeared in the October 2012 issue of First Things. The original...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Covenant & Conversation: Lech Lecha – Making Space
By Artist Phillip Ratner. By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks The call to Abraham, with which Lech Lecha begins, seems to come...
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Weekly Torah Reading
Yoram on Avrum and the Binding of Issac – Akaida
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner By Yoram Getzler. Recently Avraham Burg, who is known as Avrum wrote an essay on the Binding of...
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Weekly Torah Reading
Noach – True Morality
by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular...
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Zohar Raviv
Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series
In this period after the New Year we thought it appropriate to share this four part series of lectures by Zohar Raviv...
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Yitzhaq Hayut-man
Investigation of The SERVANT NATION in the Haphtarah of Genesis
Artist Phillip Ratner By Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man This last Shabbat (13.10.12) started a new yearly cycle of the reading of the Torah...
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Weekly Torah Reading
Who creates, sustains and affectionately empowers all that exists
The Torah begins with the dawn of Creation. To fully appreciate this narrative, one must recognize history to be more than...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
In The Beginning – “What is man that You are mindful of him?”
Rabbi Isaac said: The Torah should have begun with the verse (Ex. 12: 1): “This month shall be to you...
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Weekly Torah Reading
Learn from Moshe that all of Am Yisrael is holy and deserving of our patience, understanding and love.
by Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum PARSHAT VEZOT HABRACHA (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Fortunate are you, O Israel: who is like you! O people...
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