Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sun, 26 May 2013 07:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Jewish destiny and the Women of the Wall http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-destiny-and-the-women-of-the-wall/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-destiny-and-the-women-of-the-wall/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:51:21 +0000 Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=117104 Israel is the most significant question facing the Jewish People today. In a famous essay called “Kol Dodi Dofek – Listen, My Beloved Knocks,” based on a 1956 Israel Independence Day address, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, The Rav, taught that the rebirth of the State of Israel augured the revival of a Brit Yiud, a [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/david-hartmans-fierce-embrace/feed/ 8 On war, love and preserving an ethical core http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-war-love-and-preserving-an-ethical-core/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-war-love-and-preserving-an-ethical-core/#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:44:14 +0000 Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81968 Nothing focuses our attention quite like war. Among the many phenomena of war is the way in which it forces an existential confrontation with life and death and focuses our minds more clearly on that which we truly fear and that which we truly love. Both the unbearable weight of fear and the overwhelming love [...]

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