All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah

  Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Moshe went and spoke these words to all of Israel

  PARSHAT VAYEILECH by Yehuda HaKohen. This is another point of view on this portion of the Torah for the Shabbat before Yom...

• Guest Contributors

  The prayers of the High Holidays rest on personal responsibility—the basis of self-government

  The Whispers of Democracy in Ancient Judaism. By ERIC ROSENBERG . Jews are in the midst of a period known as the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Powerful Pre-Rosh Hashanah address by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England

            This is a wonderfully inspirational address for  Jew and non-Jew alike . Have you ever wondered what Professor Ludwig Guttmann (the...

• Steve

  Call Me Maybe-Chana Tova

  Chana Tova et Hag Sameach!   httpv://youtu.be/2gj8nUAdgMw www.agencejuive.org Facebook/agencejuive Chana Tova et Hag Sameach! Merci a tous ceux qui ont participe au...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Judaism’s greatest leap of faith: the belief that the world is ruled by justice.

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a kind of clarion call, a summons to the Ten...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Nitzavim – Why Be Jewish?

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  In the last days of his life Moses renews the covenant between God and Israel. The entire...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Day Forgiveness Was Born

  Art by Phillip Ratner. This is a very timely commentary for this time of year. By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of Britain....

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Covenant & Conversation 5772: Ki Tavo – Listening and Law

  By International Artist Phillip Ratner.  Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England. It would be reasonable to assume that a language...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Ki Tetse – To be free, you have to let go of hate.

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  As Israel returns to independence in our land…

             PARSHAT EKEV by Yehuda HaKohen. Another point of view. EKEV opens and closes with challenging ideas meant to condition the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  HaShem is not some giant invisible tyrant but rather the timeless ultimate Reality

  PARSHAT VA’ETCHANAN (by Yehuda HaKohen) “I implored HaShem at that time, saying, `My L-rd, HaShem, You have begun to show Your servant...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Va’etchanan: The Lord is our God, the Lord is One

  By Ariel Ben Avraham. We must conceive our connection and relationship with God as part of Him. This is the main lesson...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  A LOVE For The WORLD

  Rav Kook; transl. Rabbi B.Z. Bokser. “Great souls cannot dissociate themselves from the most universal concerns…The whole cannot achieve its highest fulfillment...

• Steve

  Liberty Patriarchs and Pioneers – The Search for Freedom and Individual Responsiblity

  “Go ye!” – Patriarchs and Pioneers by Kenneth Hanson  .“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Devarim: Facing the Material World

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb [Sinai], [and] said: ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey forth (…)’” (Deuteronomy 1:6-7)...

• Algemeiner News Service

  The Prophetic Voice

        Art By Phillip Ratner   By Jonathan Sacks During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as...

• Steve

  Friday Evening Bet Tfila at the Port in Tel Aviv

  By Steve Ornstein. July 13th 2012 Friday Night Kabbalah Shabbat Evening Service with videos.   httpv://youtu.be/rpA7u0EtuCE httpv://youtu.be/a5CKSwrTRHc httpv://youtu.be/IoKAnbp2ZWE

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Pinchas: Priesthood as the Highest Level of Consciousness

  By Ariel Ben Avraham Consciousness is a multidimensional space that encompasses all aspects, traits and qualities that shape human identity. These dimensions...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Rav Kook on Relating Israel and Humankind – Part II

  Translated by Itzhaq Marmorstein; comments by Yitzhaq Hayut-Man.  We bring here two more entries of Rav Kook relating Israel and humankind,  ...