Tag: Judaism
My Life-Changing Encounter with an Elder Kabbalist
Sunday of this week, the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Av, marked the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi, the holy Arizal, who is universally considered the father of modern Kabbalah. The...
Corona and Rabbi Akiva
Is the COVID-19 Epidemic all bad? The legendary Jewish Sage of old, Rabbi Akiva, teaches us that even in the Coronavirus we can discover some good. Interestingly, for the first forty years of his...
Longtime Yeshiva University president Norman Lamm sought to unify in divisive reality
It was a brave speech at the 1969 Ideological Seminary in Kiljava, Finland. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, then a prominent rabbi, theologian, professor and writer, in the Modern Orthodox world, was dissecting Neturei Karta,...
Iran’s chief rabbi: Israeli government doesn’t care about Judaism
The chief rabbi of Iran’s Jewish community, Yehuda Gerami, criticized the Israeli government on Sunday, denying any connection between Judaism and Zionism and claiming there was “total freedom of religion” in Iran.
In a Hebrew-language...
Jews come in all colors, but they shouldn’t be defined by race alone
For those who follow it, Jewish demography has always been a contact sport. But when it comes to the question of how many “Jews of color” are there really in the United States, the...
Holy smokes! Ancient Israelites burned cannabis, according to researchers
As part of getting spiritually high, ancient Israelites apparently burned cannabis on altars during rituals, the first proof of a mind-altering substance being used to attract worshippers, according to a study published on May 28 in...
Return to Eden
Dear Reader — if you are looking to be happy, creative, in harmony with God and with the universe, the Torah has the answer — Return to the Source.
When we speak about Returning to...
Lag B’Omer: the Jewish holiday of bonfires and marshmallows!
This is a Judaism celebrated annually on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer (which is the 49 day period between Passover and Shavuot in the Jewish calendar, which according to the Torah...
Fauci to Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as virus restrictions are lifted
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, had a message on Thursday for Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as local coronavirus restrictions are being lifted.
“The kind of...