All posts tagged "Torah"

• 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...

• Algemeiner News Service

  Why Are We Afraid to Speak the Real Truth About Israel?

      The famous Israeli flag above the Choshen building in East Jerusalem signifies Jewish presence. Photo: JewishPress.com. By Yosef Y. Jacobson. This...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Devarim: Facing the Material World

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb [Sinai], [and] said: ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey forth (…)’” (Deuteronomy 1:6-7)...

• Steve

  Mayor of Tel-Aviv-Yafo: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel

  Apparently the BBC and the Guardian UK think otherwise.   httpv://youtu.be/u1wJHaI56Vw

• Weekly Torah Reading

  You shall possess the land and you shall dwell in it – Parshat Masei

    Another perspective on the past and present situations in the Redemption of the Jewish Nation, Eretz Yisrael, State of Israel. by...

• Algemeiner News Service

  The Prophetic Voice

        Art By Phillip Ratner   By Jonathan Sacks During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Pinchas: Priesthood as the Highest Level of Consciousness

  By Ariel Ben Avraham Consciousness is a multidimensional space that encompasses all aspects, traits and qualities that shape human identity. These dimensions...

• Steve

  Step Up For Israel

  Make your voice heard and be active in the Peace Process.     httpv://youtu.be/bXmDpp75YzY STEP UP FOR ISRAEL is an international, grassroots...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Rav Kook on Relating Israel and Humankind – Part II

  Translated by Itzhaq Marmorstein; comments by Yitzhaq Hayut-Man.  We bring here two more entries of Rav Kook relating Israel and humankind,  ...

• Blogs

  The RE-EMERGING Jews of Nigeria

  A Documentary Film by Jeff L. Lieberman www.re-emergingfilm.com. Several years ago, the Internet was introduced into the more rural parts of southeast...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Twelve Tribes of Israel

  By Ariel Ben Avraham. We have said that the Jewish identity encompasses multidimensional facets contained in the twelve Tribes of Israel, and...

• Blogs

  HOW ALLAH HAS NIPPED YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW

  Banned pictures by cartoonists. We are in the midst of  a war of narratives that up until recently I wanted no part...

• Blogs

  Israel – Six Day War – Fourth Day

  By Allan Arkush. This week, Jewish Ideas Daily commemorates the forty-fifth anniversary of the Six-Day War.  Below, the fifth of a seven-part series.  ...

• Steve

  Culture of Honour and Shame: Orientalism and Our Misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

  This article was written By Richard Landes in 2007 and describes clearly the  impossible situation that still prevails today regarding any possibility...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Behaalotecha: Living in Love’s Ways and Means

  By Ariel Ben Avraham .“So it was, whenever the ark [of the Covenant between God and Israel] set out, Moses would say,...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Naso: Honoring our Faithfulness to God’s Love

  By Ariel Ben Avraham . Let’s reflect on the passages of this portion regarding the faithfulness between a married couple (Numbers 5:12-15)...