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Reuven Chaim Klein

Nov 17, 2025, 11:47 PM

Exploring Love – ahavah, r’chim, chibah, and agav (Part 2 of 2)

In Part I of this essay, we looked the Hebrew word ahavah and its various forms, offering various etymological theories as to the core root of that word and its underlying conceptual idea. In Part II of this essay,...

Itzchak Evan-Shayish

Nov 9, 2025, 5:44 PM

Shir Hashirim Asher Le’Shlomo: Rav Kook and Rabbi Shlomo Carbelach

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they announce the lights of new life…The Godly song is awake in the souls of the great...

Sep 26, 2025, 7:51 PM

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch Anticipated Jung and Quantum Physics

How Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch Anticipated Jung and Quantum Physics: The Hidden Unity Behind Everything. Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch (circa 1700–1772), the Maggid of Mezritch, once shared a Torah teaching beginning with V'shavta ad Havayeh Elokecha—“Return, O Israel,...

Aug 15, 2025, 5:03 PM

Book review: The Torah of Tomorrow, One Song

Anyone who has used Google Translate for news stories or basic translations knows that it does a decent job. It’s imperfect at best, but certainly can be used to get high-level ideas, at the expense of certain nuances and...

Aug 14, 2025, 4:40 PM

Book review: Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New

Visual acuity refers to the sharpness or clarity of vision. It measures how well a person can see fine details at a specific distance. Usually, it is measured at 20 feet via the Snellen eye chart (fun fact -...

Jul 28, 2025, 7:23 AM

Book review – To Be Holy but Human: Reflections Upon My Rebbe, HaRav Yehuda Amital

Written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards in 1741, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon that was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. Like Edwards' other works, it combines vivid imagery of the sinner's...

Jun 26, 2025, 7:34 AM

Walking with God in a Quantum World: Science, and the Mystery of Existence

Many people seek to personalize their faith—a positive endeavor—and strive to understand and conceptualize their belief and trust in an invisible God as thoroughly as possible. Maimonides believes that science might help us connect with the intangible and observe...

May 15, 2025, 2:39 PM

Book review – Milhemet Mitzvah: Volume 1

In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character becomes trapped in a time loop and is forced to relive the same day repeatedly. The notion of the conscription of yeshiva students into the Israeli army is similarly a...

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Jan 20, 2025, 1:19 AM

No, Nadler: We need to Re-own the Real Rav Kook

Misrepresenting Rav Kook in the Name of Scholarship Allan Nadler is no fan of Rav Kook’s. In the context of evaluating present day religious Zionism, its political expressions and its spiritual roots, he points his fire at Rabbi A.I.Kook, over and...

Jan 16, 2025, 2:35 PM

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook: Father of militant messianic Zionism

The figurehead of religious Zionism is portrayed as open and tolerant but he was anything but liberal, religiously or politically.

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