All posts tagged "Torah"
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370Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas
Jonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas With Pinchas a new type enters the world of Israel: the zealot. “Pinchas son of Eleazar, son...
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393Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES
RAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT BALAK: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES In Parshat Balak, the Torah recounts...
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479Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Not Reckoned Among the Nations-בלקBalak
Jonathan Sacks: Not Reckoned Among the Nations-בלקBalak The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the...
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412Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT...
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397Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM
Rav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM “Now Korach, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi,...
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396Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH
Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 “You have gone too far! The whole community is...
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393Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha
Jonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they...
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401Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA
Jonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA It was the emotional low of Moses’ life. After the drama at Sinai,...
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591Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Ever-Repeated Story BAMIDBAR
Jonathan Sacks: The Ever-Repeated Story BAMIDBAR Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people...
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571Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai
Jonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai As I was writing this essay, a newspaper headline caught my eye....
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514Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor
Jonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor Our Parsha begins with a restriction on the people for whom a kohen may become tamei,...
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503Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Love Is Not Enough ACHAREI MOT – KEDOSHIM
Jonathan Sacks: Love Is Not Enough ACHAREI MOT – KEDOSHIM The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of...
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492Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Holiness and Childbirth TAZRIA – METZORA
Jonathan Sacks: Holiness and Childbirth TAZRIA – METZORA The sidrot of Tazria and Metzora contain laws which are among the most difficult...
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450Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Food for Thought SHEMINI
Jonathan Sacks: Food for Thought SHEMINI The second half of Exodus and the first part of Leviticus form a carefully structured narrative....
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599Prof. Sam Lehman-WilzigProf. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: The Passover Seder’s “4 SONS”: Different Lessons
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: The Passover Seder’s “4 SONS”: Different Lessons Passover’s Haggadah at the evening “seder” is not about answers but about...
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501Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night
Jonathan Sacks: Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night One of Judaism’s greatest sages, Rambam (Maimonides) offers us a...
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608Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: The Story We Tell-The Rabbi Sacks Legacy
Jonathan Sacks: The Story We Tell-The Rabbi Sacks Legacy When we read the Pesach story, we come across something so remarkable,...
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543Rabbi Jonathan KliglerRabbi Jonathan Kligler: Breaking News: Judaism Opposes Autocracy!
Rabbi Jonathan Kligler: Breaking News: Judaism Opposes Autocracy Dear Friends, As Passover approaches, I want to proclaim its central message: tyranny –...
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510Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks: Why Do We Sacrifice?
Jonathan Sacks: Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Leviticus are...
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534Rabbi Itzchak Evan-ShayishRAV KOOK ON PEKUDEI: SANCTIFYING EVERYTHING
RAV KOOK ON PEKUDEI: SANCTIFYING EVERYTHING “וַיָּבֵ֣א אֶת־הָאָרֹן֮ אֶל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֒ וַיָּ֗שֶׂם אֵ֚ת פָּרֹ֣כֶת הַמָּסָ֔ךְ וַיָּ֕סֶךְ עַ֖ל אֲר֣וֹן הָעֵד֑וּת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃” And...
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