Philosophyמחשבת ישראל

׳׳זכור׳׳ או ׳׳שמור׳׳? למען מעשה בראשית, או יציאת מצרים? שני הבדלים בין מצות שבת בשמות כ׳ ודברים ה׳

Akeidat Yitzchak

Shabbat: Oneg and Rest

בצלם אלקים b'Tzelem Elokim (All People are Made in the Divine Image) Value the Humanity in All People

Why, who and what is Kohelet on Sukkot?

The God Gap An ELI Talk by Eliana Light

The Place of Man in the Universe

Translating the Torah into Greek - Asarah B'Tevet (and Chanukah too?)

The Torah before the Torah

Did the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Keep the Entire Torah?

The Chosen People - The Rationalist School

Shabbes as a Radical Practice

​ Moral Philosophy Meets Judaism

Shabbat: A Vacation For The Soul

Whoever acquires a Hebrew slave acquires a master upon himself אמרו חז׳׳ל: "כל הקונה עבד עברי כקונה אדון לעצמו"‏ קדושין כ"ב Slavery: Peculiar Institution, Human Failing, Condition of Exile

The Evil Inclination: How We Approach the Other

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

'You shall have no other gods before Me.' Idolatry and Interfaith dialogue in the C21st century YIWH Shavuot 5776

Music in Torah (Copy)

Two types of Repentance (Teshuvah)

Models of Medieval Zionism: The Tosafists, Nachmanides and Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi

Parshat Re'eh - Free Will?

What is Love?

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

Making the Message Clearer Parshas Balak - אור גדליהו - פרשת בלק

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

How Far Will You Go to Give? Judaism and Organ Donation An ELI Talk by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

Four Radical Jewish Ideas: In G-d's Image

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

Faith and Doubt

Intro to Torah

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

Niggun Shamil: The Soul's Longing for What It Has Always Never Been

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

Yom Kippur 2015

Psalms 16:8

Shining Light on Your Best Self

Nitzavim ~ Standing, Moving, Changing and the Boulders on our Way

The Power of Shabbat

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Searching For God Searching For Us: Godwrestling A Conversation in Four Parts: Part Four

Philosophical Inquiry?

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

Hammurabi and Moshe

Ki Tavo: types of fear

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

Jüdische Verpflichtungen gegenüber Flüchtlinge

Kuzari

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

Primary Sources for Rabbi William Plevan's "Martin Buber: The Dialogue with God"

L' h ayyim - To Life! -- Accepting Death, Affirming Life - Sources for Arthur Green's Judaism's 10 Best Ideas

The Merits of Particularism and its Shortcomings How much do we value our place in the world over other nations and religions?

Jewish Purpose

Migdal Oz Chaburah Ways we are and are not supposed to relate to G-d (God?)

​ שבת Shabbat - Day of Rest Make Time for Rest and Renewal

East Side TLC - Chain Of, or Chained Down By Tradition? Avot 1

The Spirituality of Physicality

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

HaRambam on Korbanot

ראש השנה

Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Fate and Destiny (Kol Dodi Dofek), p. 2-6

Big Gods Don't Cry

Why Keep Kosher?

Emmanuel Levinas, "Judaism and Revolution," Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 97.

Sefer HaChinuch 33

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Duties of the Heart, trans. Yaakov Feldman (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1996), 177-178

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

Do you Really Want to Live Forever?

Emmanuel Levinas, "TheTemptation of Temptation" Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 37.

Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 1985)

Text Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.80-81

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Emmanuel Levinas, "Transcendence and Height," Basic Philosophical Writings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 17.

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

"Just Call Me Angel"

Could God Microwave a Burrito So Hot that God could not Eat it? Paradox and Catch-22 in Jewish Thought

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "A Passion for Truth" (Jewish Lights Publishing, April 1995), p.24

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

Micah 6:8

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, D

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, C

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, as quoted in Introduction to Judaism: A Sourcebook (New York: UAHC Press, 1998),p. 137

Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger, Sefat Emet, Parshat Terumah, Year 5660

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

Isaiah 2:2-4

Albert Einstein

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology

On Argument and Pluralism

Why Keep Kosher?

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, " The Uniqueness of the Jewish People, Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State," trans. by E. Goldman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).

Daniel Gordis, God Was Not in the Fire (New York: Touchstone, 1996), p.17.

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World (Laurent A Parks Daloz, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, Sharon Daloz Parks, 1996)

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

Text Rachel Adler, “The Jew Who Wasn’t There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman.” Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79b

Orchot Tzadikim, Sha'ar 1 (The Gate of Pride)

Sefer HaBrit, II:13, “Love of Neighbors”, R. Pinchas Eliyahu (Kabbalist, 18th Century, Vilna)

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

Rambam, Guide of the Perplexed 3:54

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, "Halakhic Man". trans. by Lawrence Kaplan. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983), p. 101

Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other, trans. Richard Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1990), p. 83.

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

Emmanuel Levinas, “A Religion for Adults,” Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 21-22.

Isaiah Berlin, "Politics and Philosophy," The Pursuit of Ideals (New York:The New York Review of Books, 1988).

Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women’s Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive), #2.

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, B

Genesis 18:19

Emmanuel Levinas, “A Religion for Adults” in Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 20.

Emmanuel Levinas, Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998), p. 149.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, "Halakhic Man." trans. by Lawrence Kaplan. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983), pp. 34-35

Orchot Tzadikim, Sha'ar Hanedivut (The Gate of Generosity)

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, "Halakhic Man." trans. by Lawrence Kaplan. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983), p.105

Rav Kook, "Lights of Holiness", trans. by Ben Zion Bokser (New York: Paulist Press, 1978), Ch.4

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

David Hartman, A Living Covenant (New York: Free Press, 1985).

Making Space Maker Spaces Parshat Bereisheit Vs. Parshat Pikudei Based on an article by: Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, “The Nineteen Letters” (New York: Feldheim Publishers, 1995) 33-34

A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism (Pittsburgh: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1999).

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Scribner, 1970)

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966)

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

L' h ayyim - To Life! -- Accepting Death, Affirming Life

Excerpt from "The Psychology of Political Violence," by Emma Goldman

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Global Covenant: A Jewish Perspective on Globalization,” Making Globalization Good, edited by John H. Dunning. p.224

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, F

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001) p. 200-201.

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

Elie Wiesel [on Indifference], US News & World Report (27 October 1986).

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

Reward and Punishment

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs Feb 18, 2002

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

Guides to Personal Growth: Ethical Wills. Ed. Jack Riemer (National Jewish Resource Center, 1978)

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

Excerpt from "The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation," by Emma Goldman

No Choice but to Have Choice

Dr. Daniel Ziskin, Jews of the Earth, Golden, CO, June 20, 2000 (Testimony of COEJL Representatives at at U.S. Forest Service Hearings).

The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism, The Columbus Platform - 1937

Gratitude means noticing/Eating a piece of parsley by Leah Koenig

“Tortured Reasoning,” Torture: A Collection, p.257, by Alan Dershowitz

Emmanuel Levinas, Nine Talmudic Readings: Toward the Other, p. 27

Minchat K'naot, in The Writings of the Maratz Chayes, pp 1013-1014

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, A

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed, Section 3, Chapter 32

Jonathan Safran Foer, "Against Meat," The New York Times, 9 October 2009 - "Listen to Me"

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001) p.19.

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Scribner, 1970) p.57-58

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, “A Rabbi in Politics?” from You are my Witness

R. Hasdai Crescas, The Light of the Lord, Introduction

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century, p. 83a

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 6.

Rav Kook, "Lights of Holiness", trans. by Ben Zion Bokser (New York: Paulist Press, 1978)

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

Jonathan Safran Foer, "Against Meat," The New York Times, 9 Oct. 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11foer-t.html.

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz, as quoted in Smiling Each Day, Rabbi Avraham Twerski (New York: Mesorah Publications, 1993)

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

Emmanuel Levinas, "The Temptation of Temptation," Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 98.

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

Pachad Yitzchak - Chanukah Ma'amar 6

The Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Rabbi Joy Levitt

Excerpt from "The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator Of Radical Thought," by Emma Goldman

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

Abraham Joshua Heschel. God in Search of Man, p.48

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot De'ot 3:5-8

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "A Prayer for Peace," 1971 from Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), p. 231-232.

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

Viktor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy. (A.A. Knopf: 1965).

Greenberg, Yitz. "Personal Service – A Central Jewish Norm for Our Time." CONTACT. 4.1 (2001): 3-4. Print.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, "Halakhic Man." trans. by Lawrence Kaplan. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983), pp. 105-106

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001), p. 276.

Exodus 18:13-27

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Fundamentals of the Torah, 2:2

Golda Meir, Feminism

On the Environment, Abraham Joshua Heschel, "God in Search of Man," (Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1976)

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951), p. 28.

Gertrude Weil, “What Judaism Means to Me,” late 1960s. North Carolina Office of Archives and History.

Alan Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 3.

Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics, Alan Unterman, pp.80

Susannah Heschel, "Following in my father's footsteps: Selma 40 years later"

Tanna de-vei Eliyahu Zuta I, Tzedakah, with commentary by Danny Gordis - as cited in "God Was Not in the Fire" by Danny Gordis, p. 15

“Joint Program Plan for Jewish Community Relations 1980-81,” NJCRAC (National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, New York, 1980, p. 3.

Emmanuel Levinas, “Philosophy, Justice, and Love,” in Entre Nous (English ed. New York : Columbia Univ Press, 1998.)

Emmanuel Levinas, “Nine Talmudic Readings: Saying Grace in the Third World, p. 132

Emmanuel Levinas, “A Religion for Adults” in Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 23.

Excerpt from "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure," by Emma Goldman

Judah the Pious, The Book of the Pious, section 208

Emmanuel Levinas, “A Religion for Adults” in Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 21.

Ruth Messinger, "We Must Help, and in the Right Ways," JTA- August 25th, 2009

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

Emmanuel Levinas, “A Religion for Adults” in Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 20.

Max Fisher, then president-elect to the CJF (Council of Jewish Federations) in “Highlights,” 1969 CJF General Assembly

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence (Yonassan Gershom, 2009), p. 62.

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor, Chapter 10:1

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

Susannah Heschel, from the Jewish Women's Archive (http://jwa.org/feminism/)

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man’s Quest for God (New York: Scribner, 1954).

Rabbi Leah Sudran, Congregation B'nai Israel / Bay COEJL. Sacramento, CA, June 28, 2000

Ezrat Nashim, "Call for Change," (Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement: 14 March 1972).

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, “Personal Service: A Central Norm for Our Time,” Contact, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2001, p.3

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, E

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

"Tzedakah in a Global Community" by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Mordechai Kaplan in "Judais as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life." (Jewish Publication Society of America, August 1994)

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 7.

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Between God and Man (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997), p. 81.

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Between God and Man (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997), p.198.

Judith Plaskow, "Why Female Pronouns for God May Not Be Enough," Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 9, 1987.

Sara Schriner, Em B'Yisroel 2:75-7

Rabbi Yehudah HaChassid, Sefer Chasidim, trans. Avraham Finkel (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc, 1997), 114-115

Rav Kook, Introduction to “The Sabbath of the Land”

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, “The Nineteen Letters” (New York: Feldheim Publishers, 1995) pg. 56

Golda Meir, Leadership

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

Laura Geller, "Jewish Feminism: Go To Yourself!" The Shalom Center, 17 June 2005.

David Hartman, Tzvi Marx, and Noam Zion, “The Dynamics of Tzedakah: From Dependence to Dignity, Part I, p. 22-23

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "God in Search of Man" p. 46

Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, "Unfinished Rabbi" (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998), p. 60

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5, G

Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man, p. 367

Abraham Joshua Heschel, A Passion for Truth, p. 34

Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man, p. 216

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996), p. 150.

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

On Giving Tzedakah to Non-Jews, Arthur Waskow, "Down to Earth Judaism," (1995 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.)

Rabbi Michael Broyde, Human Rights in Judaism: cultural, religious, and political perspectives, pg 273

Abraham son of the Rambam, The Guide to Serving God, Chapter 5

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on Pollution, from the Jewish Climate Initiative's Pollution Law

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed, Part 3, Chapter 53

Resolution of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), "Protecting Ancient Forest Ecosystems," March 2000.

Shabbat: How is it Important to Me and My Community?

י'ג עיקרים עיקר התשיעי - נצחיות התורה

Jerusalem Post Interview with R. Haskel Lookstein and R. Yitz Greenberg, May 3 2008

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man, pg. 63

Lashon Kodesh - The Holiness of Hebrew

Transgenders in Jewish Law and Thought

Jewish Responsibility for Refugees

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

Shabbat: Meaning and Practice, Part 1 The Origins and Evolution of Shabbat

Shabbat at the Center

AJP Text Study: The Physical Space of Teshuva

The Choice of a Lifetime