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

The Chosen People - The Rationalist School

Shabbat: Oneg and Rest

Did the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Keep the Entire Torah?

The Place of Man in the Universe

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

Psalms 16:8

The God Gap An ELI Talk by Eliana Light

Shabbes as a Radical Practice

'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?

Two types of Repentance (Teshuvah)

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

​ Moral Philosophy Meets Judaism

Shabbat: A Vacation For The Soul

The Truman Show: Human Freedom

What is Yetser Ha'ra?

Anthropotheism and Theomorphism

Exploring "Chosenness" on Shavuot May 23, 2015

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

Hebraic Activism: Shabbat

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

Shabbat: Celebrating Creation

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

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

What we talk about when we talk about Karet

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

Intro to Torah

Babylonian Talmud, Eruvin 100b

The Chosen People - The Essentialist School

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

Rav Soloveitchik on Yom Kippur and Forgiveness

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

Toward a Jewish Theory of Property Ownership

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

Pursuing Justice and Fixing What's Broken

Faith and Doubt

Shining Light on Your Best Self

The Power of Shabbat

When all is light, you will be enlightened.

Yom Kippur 2015

Pesach 2015: the Miraculous and the Everyday

The Spirituality of Physicality

From Slavery to Slavery? The Dynamics of Freedom

Hammurabi and Moshe

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

The Torah before the Torah (Copy)

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

Role of Congregation Community in Our Life

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 97b

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

Rosh Hashanna: Key Sources

Modern Biblical Scholarship: Who Wrote the Bible?

Shabbat: Sources and Traditions - Hillel 818

Sefer HaChinuch 33

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

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

Ki Tavo: types of fear

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

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

Beware, the Making of Many Books Has No End.

​ Is there Rosh Hashanah in the Torah?

Kuzari

Hagar's Eye-Opening Experience ה׳ פקח עורים

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

The Rise of Medieval Kabbala - A Brief History

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

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

Big Gods Don't Cry

Philosophical Inquiry?

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

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

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

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

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

Pachad Yitzchak - Chanukah Ma'amar 6

Shabbat: The Chosen People Choose Rest Alternative

Does G-D Believe in Determinism?

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?

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

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

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

Is Judaism God-Optional? ו - Spinoza

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

ראש השנה

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:13

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

Ramchal, Mesillat Yesharim Chapter 7

Why Keep Kosher?

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:54

Carry On My Wayward Son: Judaism and Marijuana

"Just Call Me Angel"

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

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

Kesef Mishneh, Hilkhot Rotze'ach 2:11

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, D

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

Guarding and Remembering: Taking Back Shabbat

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

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

Shabbat: Oneg (celebration) and Rest (Copy)

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

Isaiah 2:2-4

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

How Rabbinic and Aristotelian Purposes Differ

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Micah 6:8

Lashon Kodesh - The Holiness of Hebrew

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:27

Sifra on Leviticus 25:35

Excerpted from a Speech by Rabbi Norman Lamm

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

Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, pgs 75-76

Rambam, Mishnah, Chulin 7:6

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk

Here I Am: הִנְנִי and Y om Kippur

On Argument and Pluralism

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exodus 19 With Rashi (Copy)

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

Rav Kook, in Tzvi Yaron, Mishnato shel haRav Kook

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

י'ג עיקרים עיקר התשיעי - נצחיות התורה

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.

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.

Why Keep Kosher?

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

Eco-Kosher, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi

Theodor Herzl, August 6, 1896

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

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

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

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

Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2

No Choice but to Have Choice

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:2

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

Disabled Kohen's disqualification - Why?

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

Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman

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

Kedushat Levi on Parshat Noach

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

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

Rambam's Eight Chapters, Chapter 4

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed III, 17

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

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

Rambam, Guide of the Perplexed 3:54

Genesis 18:19

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

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

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

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

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

Reward and Punishment

Rambam, The Guide of the Perplexed, 3:31

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

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

Sefer Makor Mayim Chayim, Parshat Noach Amud Hatefilah

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

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

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

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

Sefat Tamim (Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan) Chapter 5

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

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

Akeidat Yitzchak (Copy)

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

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1

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. 105-106

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

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

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 30b

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

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

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 3:17 - A

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

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

Sforno on Leviticus 19:9-10

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 10a

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

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

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

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

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

Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive

Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed 3:25

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

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?

Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot, 57b

Mishna, Pirkei Avot, 3:14

Mishna, Pirkei Avot 1:17 - B

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

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.)

Shabat: Sentido e Pratica, Origem e evolução do Shabat

Exodus 18:13-27

Is There a Jewish Hell?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Parenting and Showing Favoritism in Judaism

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

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

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.

Rabbi Simcha Bunem's favorite sayings

Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

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

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

Medibozer Rebbe, Butzina DeNehorah, 22

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

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

Golda Meir, Feminism

Did you steal that apple? by Nigel Savage

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

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

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

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

Baal Shem Tov, on friendship

The Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Rabbi Joy Levitt

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

Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 3:13

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

"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.

Is God Truly Omniscient, Benevolent, and Omnipotent?

Mivchar HaPennim 20:11

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did Bilaam Have A Choice?

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, E

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

Babylonian Talmud, Mo'ed Katan 9a

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

Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi's Kinna - Tziyon HaLo Tishali

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

Golda Meir, Leadership

Transgenders in Jewish Law and Thought

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

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

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Environment (2003)

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

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

Rabbi Abraham ben Moses, On Nature

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

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Hasidic Anthology

“The New Jewish Philanthropies” by Ira Silverman

Jewish Responsibility for Refugees

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

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

Ethical Eating

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

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

Free Will vs. Fate

Reward and Punishment in Judaism

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

Theology

Over Their Dead Bodies: On Praying at the Graves of the Righteous (Limmud Festival 2019)

B'tzelem Elohim and Creativity