January 22, 2013
11:21 pm

Beshalach: The Mouth of Freedom

The greatness of man – his dignity and his creativity – is expressed in his freedom of will and in his ability to choose. – Rabbi Joseph......

January 15, 2013
1:02 pm

Bo: The Tongue of a Dog teaches all of Egypt

“The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world” – Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits The Exodus from......

January 9, 2013
10:18 pm

Vaera: The Reluctant Redeemer

The most important quality of a prophet, explains Rabbeinu Nissim, after being of perfect mind and moral character, is that of speech. How could it be, he asks, that......

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January 3, 2013
12:41 am

Shemot: Between emotional empathy and rational empathy

How is one to respond to the suffering, pain and tragedy of another? If this question is of grave import with regard to individuals, its ramifications are magnified exponentially......

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December 27, 2012
11:48 pm

Vayechi: On Evil Eyes and Rotten Bones

Joseph’s last will and testament (Genesis 50:24-26), like that of his father’s before him, contains the message of redemption as well as an oath binding his descendents to bury......

December 21, 2012
10:54 am

Vayigash: Wagons Laden with Meaning

“ seeks to clothe the Idea in a tangible from … Accordingly, in this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will......

December 13, 2012
10:14 pm

Miketz: Hope in Shattered Vessels

Living in an imperfect world, broken by troubles and characterized by crisis, begs the question: is there hope of repair? The answer, I suggest, is to be found in......

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December 5, 2012
12:51 am

Vayeshev: majesty and humility

“Man, in Judaism, was created for both victory and defeat – he is both king and saint. He must know how to fight for victory and also......

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November 28, 2012
1:19 am

Vayishlach: The Paradox of the Righteous who Suffer

The believer in God must account for one thing: the existence of evil; the atheist, however, must account for the existence of everything else. – Milton Steinberg In......

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November 21, 2012
12:17 pm

Vayetzei: An Ecstatic Dream-Work

The most wonderful aspect of revelation, then, is not its content, but its possibility: Not the word of God, but the encounter itself. … not an idea......

November 16, 2012
10:10 am

Toldot: The Torah Entire

The Halakha, which was given to us from Sinai, … declares that any religiosity which does not lead to determinate actions, firm and clear-cut measures, chiseled and......

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November 8, 2012
11:36 pm

Hayei Sarah: The Covenant for Life

In a discussion of who has the right to influence Jewish destiny in the land of Israel, Rabbi Herschel Schachter writes that such an individual must essentially obtain of......

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October 29, 2012
12:30 pm

Vayera: Developing Faith

“The man of faith, animated by his great experience, is able to reach a point at which not only his logic of the mind but even his......

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October 25, 2012
11:34 pm

Lech Lecha: The “Great Wealth” of Synthesis

In his “Philosophy of History”, Georg Hegel described the course of history as progressing through what is known as the “dialectic triad” – a process wherein an......

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October 19, 2012
3:45 pm

Noah: On Pleasure, Power and Purpose

In an attempt to define what motivates man, Freud proposed that it is “will to pleasure” and Adler opined that it is “will to power”. So fundamental are these......

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