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

Why, who and what is Kohelet on Sukkot?

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

The Torah before the Torah

Shabbat: Oneg and Rest

The Place of Man in the Universe

The Chosen People - The Rationalist School

Did the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Keep the Entire Torah?

Music in Torah (Copy)

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 God Gap An ELI Talk by Eliana Light

Shabbes as a Radical Practice

Psalms 16:8

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

The Evil Inclination: How We Approach the Other

Parshat Re'eh - Free Will?

What is Love?

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

​ Moral Philosophy Meets Judaism

Two types of Repentance (Teshuvah)

Shabbat: A Vacation For The Soul

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

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

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

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

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

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

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

Intro to Torah

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

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

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

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

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

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

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

Faith and Doubt

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

Shining Light on Your Best Self

The Power of Shabbat

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

Yom Kippur 2015

The Spirituality of Physicality

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

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

Hammurabi and Moshe

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

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

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

Ki Tavo: types of fear

Sefer HaChinuch 33

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

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

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

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

Kuzari

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

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

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

Philosophical Inquiry?

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

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

Big Gods Don't Cry

Do you Really Want to Live Forever?

Jüdische Verpflichtungen gegenüber Flüchtlinge

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

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

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

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

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

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

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

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

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

Jewish Purpose

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

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

Pachad Yitzchak - Chanukah Ma'amar 6

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

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

HaRambam on Korbanot

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

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

ראש השנה

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

Why Keep Kosher?

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

"Just Call Me Angel"

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

Isaiah 2:2-4

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

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

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

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

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

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Micah 6:8

Lashon Kodesh - The Holiness of Hebrew

Albert Einstein

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

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

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

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

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

On Argument and Pluralism

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

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

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

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

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

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

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

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

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

No Choice but to Have Choice

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.

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

י'ג עיקרים עיקר התשיעי - נצחיות התורה

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

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

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.

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

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

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

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

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

Rambam, Guide of the Perplexed 3:54

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

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

Genesis 18:19

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

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

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

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

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

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

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

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

Reward and Punishment

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

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

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

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

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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

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

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

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

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

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

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

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

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

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

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

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

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

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

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

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

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

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

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

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

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

Exodus 18:13-27

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. 23.

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

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

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

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

Is There a Jewish Hell?

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

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

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

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

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

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

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

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

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

Golda Meir, Feminism

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

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

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

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

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

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

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

The Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Rabbi Joy Levitt

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

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

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

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

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

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

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

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

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

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

Shabat: Sentido e Pratica, Origem e evolução do Shabat

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

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

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

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

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

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

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

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

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

Transgenders in Jewish Law and Thought

Golda Meir, Leadership

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

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

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

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

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

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi's Kinna - Tziyon HaLo Tishali

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

Jewish Responsibility for Refugees

The Choice of a Lifetime

The Value of Judaism, Jewish Values, and the Good Life

Shabbat at the Center

AJP Text Study: The Physical Space of Teshuva

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

Ethical Eating

Confronting Sisyphus - Pirkei Avot and Existential Absurdism

Free Choice vs. G-ds knowledge

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

2019 Topic #1: Tragic Trolleys tinyurl.com/CATrolley

Reward and Punishment in Judaism

Free Will vs. Fate

Over Their Dead Bodies: On Praying at the Graves of the Righteous

Theology