All posts tagged "Torah"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  May God Bless All Women – Rosh HaShana

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. Shalom, dear friends and HAPPY NEW YEAR 5772! In the last year and a half of this blog...

• Steve

  Bloody Truth – Be Forewarned

  Yedida’s song attempts to highlight the fragility of past Arab-Israeli Agreements and Treaties. The track conveys the existential dangers to Israel inherent...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  “It will be that when all of these things come upon you” – PARSHAT NITZAVIM

  Another point of view. by Yehuda HaKohen. “It will be that when all of these things come upon you – the blessing...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  God’s Love as Our True Identity

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. Why do we have to love God? The answer is a matter of identity, meaning that it is...

• Blogs

  A Postdigital Biblical Commentary as a Blogart Narrative

  Mel Alexenberg.You are standing today, all of you, before God your Lord – your leaders, your tribal chiefs, your elders, and your...

• Art

  Dip Your Apple – Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah

  The Fountainheads are a group of young Israeli dancers, singers, actors and artists, all graduates and students of the Ein Prat Academy...

• Video

  Rosh Hashanah Rock Anthem – Music Video

  Rosh Hashanah, http://www.aish.com/newyear, – Get ready for the New Year and Jewish High Holidays with this video. To see the lyrics click...

• Lee Diamond

  Caesarea and the 10 Martyrs

    Eleh Ezkerah (10 Martyrs) page from Midrash Eleh Ezkerah, Constantinople , 1620. By Rabbi Lee Diamond.  On Yom Kippur we will...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Parshat Ki Tavo: The Heritage of God’s Love

  Song of songs by Phillip Ratner – Ratnermuseum.com  by Ariel Ben Avraham  The second verse of this portion commands “(…) that you...

• Blogs

  The greatest civilizations eventually fall due to their own internal decay.

  by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks It is not clear that the West has successfully met the challenge of 9/11. Worse: it...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Ethics of Love – Parshat Ki Teitzei

  by Ariel Ben Avraham “When you go out (ki teitzei) to war on your enemies, the Lord your God shall deliver them...

• David Hazony

  Ki Teitzei: Defending Human Dignity

  By David Hazony From beginning to end, this week’s reading offers a catalog of value-laden statements about how the ancient Israelites were...

• Blogs

  Israel Seen Daily News

  Today’s News from the Middle East and Beyond. Israelseen daily news.  

• Steve

  It Is Not Beyond You Nor is it Far Away

  The Ten Commandments  by David Hazony is a wonderful understanding of how the commandments or utterances impact our personal and communal lives....

• Blogs

  Living In Loves Judgement

  By Ariel Ben Avraham  The best guidance and counsel we have in consciousness is our judgment, and we have to endow it...

• Blogs

  Ahavat Yisrael – love of Israel – and the duty that an individual

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

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Seeing God’s Love – Re’eh

    By Ariel Ben Avraham The purpose of the three major Jewish festivals (Pesach, Shavuot and Succot) is to see the Creator...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Because We Need to Love – Parshat Eikev

  By Ariel Ben Avraham In previous commentaries we have insisted that there is not such a thing as the apparent conditionality of...

• Blogs

  First Summer of a New Immigrant In Israel

  By Daniel Goldschmidt My first summer in Israel has been full of excitement with  very mixed experiences.  As is usually true of...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Our Bond with God’s Love

  By Ariel Ben Avraham In the book “God as Love” we say that loving our Creator is the Essential Commandment to fully...