Posts Tagged: Adam and Eve
In the Beginning
We begin the yearly cycle of the Torah by reading in Genesis about the Garden of Eden -- such an innocent idealized world before human...
A Lesson From Salmon Starters
Far longer ago than I am freely willing to admit, as a young rabbi privately teaching bar mitzvah boys to read their Torah portions, the...
Artificial Intelligence: The Forbidden Fruit of the 21st Century
Long before the invention of self-driving cars and robotics, Jews conceived the idea of man-made life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming so advanced now that it...
Judaism Is a Religion of Listening, Not Seeing
What exactly was the first sin? What was the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil? Is this kind of knowledge a bad thing --...
Norton Simon Museum Appeal Denied in Lawsuit Over Nazi-Looted Paintings
Los Angeles Times - The Norton Simon Museum was dealt another legal setback Thursday in its bid to hold onto prized 16th century paintings of...
Finding Our Own Garden of Eden (VIDEO)
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish holiday of the New Year, corresponds to the sixth day of creation, and the moment when the first pair of humans...
Jew Versus Jew
There's a cute joke doing the rounds in Israel at the moment that my friend, Edward Cohen, sent me. It's an adaptation of a...
Deception and Desire: An Overview of Genesis
Based on a series of lectures by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach At the core of the book of Genesis the themes of desire and deception consistently reappear...
Message to My Daughter Under the Wedding Canopy
Mushki, given the paucity of my experience in conducting Jewish weddings, I feared that I'd perform the ceremony imperfectly and my own daughter...
