Finding meaning in the ram
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2014
Why is the ram so important to Judaism?
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abraham
The wells of peace: Parashat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9)
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
October 30, 2013
Wells, water, history and peace. Seems like as much as the world changes, advances and develops, some things remain intact, remain essential to our future. In the midst of this week’s parasha, Toldot, within the stories of familial strife among Isaac, Rebecca and their twin sons, Jacob and Esau, in between the pain, we have a scene that brings hope, if not for the immediate pain of the Torah’s story, then for the future, perhaps for us today.
In the face of strangers: Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
Rabbi Laura Geller
October 16, 2013
This week’s Torah portion begins: “YHVH appeared to Abraham as he was sitting at the entrance of the tent … looking up, he saw: behold, three men standing opposite him.
Marriage is a Jewish issue
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2008
Parshat Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18) God is present when two people commit their lives to each other and become one family.
Look up to see angels
Jewish Journal
November 13, 2008
Parshat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24) May we, like Abraham the Patriarch, be comforted by the appearance of what Abraham Lincoln called, \”the better angels of our nature\” as they come to transform our country into the caring community for which we pray every day.
To let go and to pray
Rabbi Daniel Greyber
November 7, 2008
Parshat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) Lech Lecha begins with God telling Abraham, \”Go forth from your land, from your birthplace, from the house of your father to the land that I will show you.\”
Israeli film ‘My Father My Lord’ — Abraham’s binding of Isaac redux
Tom Tugend
July 9, 2008
In the Israeli film \”My Father My Lord,\” the secular or casually religious Jew encounters a world whose mindset and lifestyle might as well be thousands of miles and centuries away. It is the world of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, in which every action, every thought, is determined by God\’s law, as elucidated by the sages.
Stuck in the middle
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
November 9, 2007
Throughout our history, my family\’s descendants have been mistreated, traumatized and deceived (just like me), yet somehow, we always survived. We always insisted, either physically or metaphorically, on \”staying in the land and digging wells,\” despite \”the famine.\” So perhaps our people refer to themselves by the names of my father and son, but their inner character and strength as tough survivors comes from me, Isaac. It is my story — the story of a survivor — that is really their story.
Setting out to look within
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
October 19, 2007
We have the chance, each and every week, to take the journey of Abraham, listen for the call of God and then find ways to answer that call.
In Quest for Meaning
Judea Pearl
September 21, 2007
Man is a meaning-seeking animal. Hardly a second goes by in which our mind does not stop its routine activities to ponder the meaning of the input it receives from our senses or from its own activities.
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