All posts tagged "Torah"
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Philosophy or Prophecy – Va’etchanan
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner Ratner Museum. One of the most profound disagreements in Judaism is that between Moses Maimonides and Judah...
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Blogs
Tisha B’Av and the virtue of Jewish Statehood
Re-Post from our friend Adam Levick’s essay on Tisha B’Av.(Here are a few paragraphs from an essay I had published today...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Challenging the idols of the secular age
Can religion survive, even flourish, in a secular age? The answer is an emphatic Yes. The question is how. By...
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Guest Contributors
Talking With Israel’s Ruth MK Calderon’s aims to ‘free and reclaim’ Judaism
Jerusalem — In the hour she spent with 150 young Jewish entrepreneurs and social activists from around the world last Wednesday...
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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...
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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...
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Alma Beit Midrash Series
The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah – Final Lecture
https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregevfinal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More This is the last session of an amazing series on the...
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Blogs
Saving Nadrah – first Syrian heart patient in Israel
The Times of Israel accompanies the first Syrian heart patient in Israel — a four-year-old girl whose family put her life...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Why was Moses not destined to enter the Land?
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner It is one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd,...
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Blogs
Dispelling Nine Myths About Women of the Wall
getty images. Prayerful Protest: A member of Women of the Wall prays at the Kotel at the group’s monthly event. “At...
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Blogs
The Ten Commandments Why the Decalogue Matters
Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. A wonderful and important essay with creative insight and an inspiring message. By Leon R. Kass for...
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