According to Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund co-chairman Yizhak Vaknin, unity among the Jewish people is essential to ensure that Israel continues to thrive.
To think that God descended to Sinai to give us a history lesson or dictate laws is to minimize Torah and to miss the real meaning of it.
CENTER FIELD: Time-sharing God didn’t work. “If you can’t see God everywhere,” the Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859), warned, “you can’t see God anywhere.”
South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein’s book challenges readers to observe Shabbat.
Why God Why? will be widely available in Israel in late May and can be ordered from the publisher at order@gefenpublishing.com.
Notwithstanding its mysterious whereabouts, Mount Sinai is a mountain. Why is that significant?
There are millions of Jews whose sole affiliation with Judaism is their love and commitment to the State of Israel. Their nationalistic loyalty is merely the hidden hand of God.
Being holy is a state of mind. It is an awareness that floods the soul so that we see, so that we experience, not that everything is God but rather that everything is an extension of God.
A person has a tendency to dominate and feel ownership, which can lead to pride and egocentrism. The Torah addresses man as he harvests and seeks to educate him to humility.
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