Posts Tagged: Ha’azinu
Parshat Ha’azinu: The Arc of the Moral Universe
In majestic language, Moses breaks into song, investing his final testament to the Israelites with all the power and passion at his command. He begins...
The Message of the Torah: ‘Out of the One, Many’
In the glorious song with which Moses addresses the people, he invites them to think of the Torah -- their covenant with God -- as...
Parsha Ha’azinu 5779: The Need for Emotional Intelligence
In March 2015, I had a public conversation at Yale with the university’s president, Peter Salovey. The occasion was quite an emotional one. It celebrated...
Moses, the Man
That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite...
The Spirituality of Song
With Ha’azinu, our Bible portion this week, we climb to one of the peaks of Jewish spirituality. For a month, Moses had taught the people. He had...
If God Is Just, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
In majestic language, Moses breaks into song, investing his final testament to the Israelites with all the power and passion at his command. He begins...
