All posts tagged "Torah"

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• 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...

• Guest Contributors

  The Rav Kook Revolution – Master of the Lights

             The author, Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein, declaims Rav Kook’s poetry as Rabbi Greg Wall leads his band, Greg...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Shelach Lecha – Beyond the Fringe

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Our sedra ends with one of the great commands of Judaism – tsitsit, the fringes we wear on...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah Part II

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....

• Algemeiner News Service

  From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert Wistrich

      Noam Chomsky. Photo: Duncan Rawlinson.  A REVIEW. By Edward Alexander We Shall Build Ramallah in England’s Green and Pleasant Land”  ...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy

     Ariel Ben Avraham   “Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She hearkened not to the voice, she...

• Blogs

  Leadership Beyond Despair

    By Artist Phillip Ratner-ratnermuseum Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Future Tense – A Vision of Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture

      Why are we here? Why are we Jews? Why does the world need – if indeed it does – a Jewish...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  10 Questions We Want Answers To – in 4 minutes or less

    The Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has recorded a series of short videos in answer to some of the most basic...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Counts?

    Art by Phillip Ratner Commentary  By Rabbi Lord Sacks This week’s sedra begins with a continuation of the census begun in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Love as Law, Law as Love

                     By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftarah of Bemidbar are slender....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The modern world was shaped by four revolutions: The Chronological Imagination

  “I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological imagination.”  By...

• Blogs

  ‘Lost tribe of Israel’ found in Papua New Guinea?

                Scholar known as “British Indiana Jones,” Florida International University religious studies professor Tudor Parfitt: “The Gogodala wear yarmulkes [kippot] and prayer...

• Blogs

  What Counts – The Study of the Counting of the Omer

       “A prophet is one who sees the end in the beginning. While others are at ease, he foresees the catastrophe. While...