All posts tagged "Torah"

• Steve

  Dip Your Apple – Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah

    A Rosh Hashanah musical parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads from the Ein Prat Academy,   httpv://youtu.be/FlcxEDy-lr0 Based on Shakira’s “Waka...

• 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...

• IDF

  Soldiers Swearing in to the Israel Defense Forces Ceremony

  We are so proud of Yael, that she has finished her basic training and no preparing for her two year assignment in...

• Steve

  “The dominant culture in Israel has always directed its eyes towards the West.”

    Sami Michael at the 2012 ACUM Awards ceremony Photo by Daniel Tchetchik. This is a translation of a speech delivered by...

• Blogs

  How Individual Philosophy and World View Affect Halakhic Decisions

  Rabbi Kook  Rabbi Uziel.              Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Uziel studied the same talmudic and rabbinic sources. That their rulings were diametrically...

• 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

  Ahavat Yisrael (love of Israel) – the duty that a leader bears for his nation.

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

• Steve

  Israel – Birth of a Nation – Sir Martin Gilbert

  Fair Use as per US Copyright Law. The legends of the stolen land and “ethnic cleansing” are hard if not impossible to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Separated from the mind, the heart became numb and developed into a “Heart of Stone”

      PARSHAT R’EH. by Yehuda HaKohen “Then it shall be that the place where HaShem, your G-D, will choose to rest His...

• Steve

  Somebody out there wants to kill me

  By Yair Lapid. The recent terror attempt at Sinai, which was miraculously thwarted at the last minute, reminded me of a very...

• 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...