Posts Tagged: maimonides
Jeffrey Epstein and Maimonides
I needed distraction from hypocrisy, politics, demonstrations, and looting this past week, so I watched a series on Netflix called “Filthy Rich.” It is about...
Remembering Maimonides
It is a well-known saying that, “From Moses to Moses, there was no one as great as Moses.” The second Moses the saying refers to...
True Friends Put Others First
We all need friends. We all have friends. And we all have something to say about friendship. And yet, defining friendship is far more elusive than...
Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Runs Afoul of Maimonides
The guilty plea of a former lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, was reportedly motivated in part by Cohen’s 83-year-old father, who supposedly told...
Human Wisdom vs. Divine Wisdom
This coming Monday, I will be delivering a lecture on Moses Maimonides -- surely one of the most fascinating Jewish personalities of the past 1,000 years. The...
Italian Talmud
The Talmud is the most defining text of Judaism as it is today -- in a way, even more so than the Bible, even though...
What Maimonides Teaches Us About Trump
JNS.org - If anyone can be said to have discovered the formula for a world without evil, that accolade belongs to the great medieval Jewish philosopher...
Why People Hate God, and Why They’re Wrong
My late father insisted that religion was bad for the world, because it caused so many wars. I tried for years to convince him otherwise (unsuccessfully, of course),...
A Request for a Favor From Some of My Fellow Rabbis
I'd like to ask some of my colleagues a favor. I teach Torah for a living, often to people who don't have a lot of background....
Violence Defiles Us All, Even When Necessary
From beginning to end, Genesis 34 tells a terrifying story. Dina, Jacob's daughter - the only Jewish daughter mentioned in the entire patriarchal narratives -...
How to Advance Israel Advocacy? I Ask First for Zionism
I ask FIRST for Zionism. Not for pogrom. Not for libel. Not for Shoah. Not for discussions on Arab-Israeli conflicts; not for discourse on legal texts; not...
Followership
There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great "holiness code" with which our parsha begins, that sheds light on the nature not just...
Barack Obama and Biblical Sacrifice
In synagogues all over the country, last Saturday's opening portion of Leviticus (usually called "Vayyikra") was read aloud. It deals at length with the laws...
Maimonides Leaves Lasting Legacy on Modern Medical Practice
JNS.org -Doctors around the world hold in high regard the writings and manner of care of medieval philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides ("Rambam"), whose teachings have...
