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

The God Gap An ELI Talk by Eliana Light

Why, who and what is Kohelet on Sukkot?

The Place of Man in the Universe

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

Translating the Torah into Greek - Asarah B'Tevet and Chanukah

The Torah before the Torah

Did the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Keep the Entire Torah?

​ Moral Philosophy Meets Judaism

The Chosen People - The Rationalist School

Shabbes as a Radical Practice

Shabbat: A Vacation For The Soul

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

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

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

Two types of Repentance (Teshuvah)

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

Music in Torah (Copy)

What is Love?

Parshat Re'eh - Free Will?

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

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

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

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

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

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

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

Faith and Doubt

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

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

Yom Kippur 2015

Intro to Torah

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

Shining Light on Your Best Self

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

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

The Power of Shabbat

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

Psalms 16:8

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

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Philosophical Inquiry?

Hammurabi and Moshe

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

Ki Tavo: types of fear

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

Jüdische Verpflichtungen gegenüber Flüchtlinge

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

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

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

Kuzari

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

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

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

Jewish Purpose

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

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

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

The Spirituality of Physicality

HaRambam on Korbanot

ראש השנה

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

Why Keep Kosher?

Big Gods Don't Cry

Sefer HaChinuch 33

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

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

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

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

"Just Call Me Angel"

Do you Really Want to Live Forever?

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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

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

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

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

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

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

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

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

Micah 6:8

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

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

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

On Argument and Pluralism

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

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

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

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

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

Isaiah 2:2-4

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

Why Keep Kosher?

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

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

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

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

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

Albert Einstein

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

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

Rambam, Guide of the Perplexed 3:54

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

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

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

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

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

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

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

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

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

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

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

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

Genesis 18:19

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

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

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

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

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

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

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

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

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

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

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

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

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

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

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Choice but to Have Choice

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

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

Reward and Punishment

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

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

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

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

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

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

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

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

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

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

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.

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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

Exodus 18:13-27

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

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

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

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

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

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

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

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

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

Golda Meir, Leadership

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

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

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

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

Golda Meir, Feminism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Rabbi Joy Levitt

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

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

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

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

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

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

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

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

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

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

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

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

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

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

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

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

The Choice of a Lifetime

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

AJP Text Study: The Physical Space of Teshuva