Philosophyמחשבת ישראל

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

Akeidat Yitzchak

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

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

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

Music in Torah (Copy)

'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

Parshat Re'eh - Free Will?

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

What is Love?

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

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

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

Psalms 16:8

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

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

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

Faith and Doubt

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

Intro to Torah

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

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

Yom Kippur 2015

Shining Light on Your Best Self

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

The Power of Shabbat

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

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

Hammurabi and Moshe

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

Philosophical Inquiry?

Ki Tavo: types of fear

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

Kuzari

Jüdische Verpflichtungen gegenüber Flüchtlinge

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

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

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

The Spirituality of Physicality

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

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?

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

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

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

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

Big Gods Don't Cry

HaRambam on Korbanot

ראש השנה

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

Sefer HaChinuch 33

Why Keep Kosher?

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

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

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.

Do you Really Want to Live Forever?

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

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

"Just Call Me Angel"

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

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

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

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isaiah 2:2-4

Micah 6:8

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

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

Albert Einstein

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

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

Why Keep Kosher?

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

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

On Argument and Pluralism

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

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

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

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

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

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

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

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

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

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.

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

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

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

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

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

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.

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

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

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

Genesis 18:19

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

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

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

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

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

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

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

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

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

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

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

Pachad Yitzchak - Chanukah Ma'amar 6

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

No Choice but to Have Choice

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

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

Reward and Punishment

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

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

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

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

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

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

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

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

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

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

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

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

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

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

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

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

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

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

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

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

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

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

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

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

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

Exodus 18:13-27

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

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.

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

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

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

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

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

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

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

Golda Meir, Feminism

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

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

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

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

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

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

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

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

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

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. 3.

The Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Rabbi Joy Levitt

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

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lashon Kodesh - The Holiness of Hebrew

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.

י'ג עיקרים עיקר התשיעי - נצחיות התורה

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

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

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/)

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

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

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, pg. 63

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

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

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

Transgenders in Jewish Law and Thought

Golda Meir, Leadership

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

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

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

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

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

Jewish Responsibility for Refugees

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

Shabbat at the Center

The Choice of a Lifetime

AJP Text Study: The Physical Space of Teshuva

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

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

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

Is There a Jewish Hell?