All posts tagged "kabbalah"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Ethics of Love – Parshat Ki Teitzei

  by Ariel Ben Avraham “When you go out (ki teitzei) to war on your enemies, the Lord your God shall deliver them...

• David Hazony

  Ki Teitzei: Defending Human Dignity

  By David Hazony From beginning to end, this week’s reading offers a catalog of value-laden statements about how the ancient Israelites were...

• Steve

  It Is Not Beyond You Nor is it Far Away

  The Ten Commandments  by David Hazony is a wonderful understanding of how the commandments or utterances impact our personal and communal lives....

• Blogs

  Living In Loves Judgement

  By Ariel Ben Avraham  The best guidance and counsel we have in consciousness is our judgment, and we have to endow it...

• Blogs

  Ahavat Yisrael – love of Israel – and the duty that an individual

  PARSHAT SHOFTIM (by Yehuda HaKohen) SHOFTIM deals primarily with statutes pertaining to Israel’s leadership. Because leadership is not a position of personal...

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  Seeing God’s Love – Re’eh

    By Ariel Ben Avraham The purpose of the three major Jewish festivals (Pesach, Shavuot and Succot) is to see the Creator...

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  Because We Need to Love – Parshat Eikev

  By Ariel Ben Avraham In previous commentaries we have insisted that there is not such a thing as the apparent conditionality of...

• Lee Diamond

  A Revolution called Judaism

  By Lee Diamond, rabbi Isaiah cries in the name of God:   “Why, when we fasted, did You not see? When we...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Our Bond with God’s Love

  By Ariel Ben Avraham In the book “God as Love” we say that loving our Creator is the Essential Commandment to fully...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Va’ethanan – The Memory in Our Tablets – Sinai Moses Ten Utterances

    By David Hazony In reviewing this week’s Torah reading, a competent editor might have asked Moses what he really needs it...

• Blogs

  Tisha B’Av – If only we could understand the reality of what the world is missing

  A point of view: TISHA B’AV  by Yehuda HaKohen Throughout most of the year, we are satisfied and grateful as we appreciate...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Good is the land that HaShem, our G-D, gives us – Devarim – Am-Segula

  Another point of view PARSHAT DEVARIM by Yehuda HaKohen “They took in their hands from the fruit of the land and brought...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Dwelling in Gods Love – Devarim

  By Ariel Ben Avraham Every book of the Torah is important as well as every word contained in them, and their messages...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  “You shall possess the land and you shall dwell in it, for to you have I given the land to possess it.”

  Another point of view of this weeks Torah portion. PARSHAT MASEI by Yehuda HaKohen.  “You shall possess the land and you shall...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  God as Love – Life is a Journey in which We have many Turning Points

  By Ariel Ben Avraham This portion recalls the journeys of the children of Israel since their Exodus from Egypt under the guidance...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love as the Foundation of Life

  By Ariel Ben Avraham . The previous three biblical portions (parshiot) are related because every event is the consequence of the preceding. In...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Our zeal of God’s Love – Parshat Pinchas

  By Ariel Ben Avraham Our mystic Sages explain that the highest awareness of our connection with God’s Love (represented by the Jewish...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Pinchas and Zimri: The Anatomy of an Argument

  by Rabbi Ari Kahn  Sometimes, biblical stories are complex or densely and intricately woven; other times, the storyline seems straightforward, morally unequivocal,...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Elevating our Consciousness to God’s Love – Parshat Balak

  By Ariel Ben Avraham    “God said to Balaam, ‘You shall not go with them! You shall not curse the people because they...

• Steve

  Friday Evening Service Bet Tfila at the Port of Tel Aviv

  This past Friday was the first of a series of Shabbat services at the Tel Aviv Port. It is a popular draw...