Philosophyמחשבת ישראל

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

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

Akeidat Yitzchak

Shabbat: Oneg and Rest

Why, who and what is Kohelet on Sukkot?

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

The Torah before the Torah

The Place of Man in the Universe

The God Gap An ELI Talk by Eliana Light

Did the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Keep the Entire Torah?

The Chosen People - The Rationalist School

Shabbes as a Radical Practice

​ Moral Philosophy Meets Judaism

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

Music in Torah (Copy)

The Evil Inclination: How We Approach the Other

Shabbat: A Vacation For The Soul

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

Parshat Re'eh - Free Will?

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

Two types of Repentance (Teshuvah)

What is Love?

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

Psalms 16:8

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

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

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

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

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

Faith and Doubt

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

Intro to Torah

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

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

Yom Kippur 2015

Shining Light on Your Best Self

The Power of Shabbat

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

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

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

Hammurabi and Moshe

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

Philosophical Inquiry?

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

Ki Tavo: types of fear

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

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

Kuzari

Jüdische Verpflichtungen gegenüber Flüchtlinge

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

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

The Spirituality of Physicality

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

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

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

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

Jewish Purpose

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

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

Big Gods Don't Cry

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

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

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

Sefer HaChinuch 33

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

HaRambam on Korbanot

ראש השנה

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

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

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

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

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

Why Keep Kosher?

Do you Really Want to Live Forever?

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

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

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

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

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

"Just Call Me Angel"

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

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

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

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

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

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

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

Isaiah 2:2-4

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

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

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

Micah 6:8

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

Pachad Yitzchak - Chanukah Ma'amar 6

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

Albert Einstein

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

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

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

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

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

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

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

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

Why Keep Kosher?

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

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

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

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.

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

On Argument and Pluralism

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

Rambam, Guide of the Perplexed 3:54

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 18:19

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

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

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

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

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

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

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

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

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

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

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

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

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

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

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

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reward and Punishment

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

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

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

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

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

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

No Choice but to Have Choice

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

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

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

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

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

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

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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

י'ג עיקרים עיקר התשיעי - נצחיות התורה

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

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.

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

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

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

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

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

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

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

Exodus 18:13-27

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

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

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

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

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

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

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

Lashon Kodesh - The Holiness of Hebrew

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

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

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

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

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

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

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

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

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

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

Golda Meir, Feminism

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

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

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

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

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

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

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

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

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

Transgenders in Jewish Law and Thought

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

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

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

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

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

Golda Meir, Leadership

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

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

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

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

*Fantastic Torah* "A Light Unto the Nations"/ Ohr L'Goyim : A Meaningful Mission or a Mistaken Meaning?

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

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

Jewish Responsibility for Refugees

Shabbat at the Center

Is There a Jewish Hell?

The Choice of a Lifetime

*Fantastic Torah* Is Nothing Sacred? What is Essential about Judasm - and What can Change?

AJP Text Study: The Physical Space of Teshuva

Faith and Doubt (Based on a source sheet by Zack Isakow)

Ethical Eating