Posts Tagged: Lech Lecha torah
Parshat Lech Lecha: The Answer to Our Happiness Truly Lies Inside Each of Us
According to Aristotle, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” But who nowadays has the time for that? Introspection is so sedentary -- and,...
Parshat Lech-Lecha: We Must Make the Best of a Sometimes Dark World
After the Torah chapters that describe stages of early humanity, we come to Abraham (Avram) and the beginning of the monotheism we recognize. God tells...
Doublespeak at Its Worst
The end of this month will mark 75 years since the passage of UN Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947. This paved the way for...
The Torah and Moral Ambiguity
Women play an important part in the narrative of Genesis. And I have always been struck by the ambiguous way that the Torah deals with...
We Can Learn Most From Those Who Are Different From Us
Devaki Raj is the CEO and co-founder of CrowdAI, an artificial-intelligence startup that “enables anyone to create high quality solutions to analyze imagery and video.”...
Parshat Lech Lecha: No One Is Perfect
Abraham is the first, full character study in the Torah. The “ten generations” between Adam and Noah, and then again between Noah and Abraham, are...
Parshat Lech Lecha: The Torah and Conformity
Leaders lead. That does not mean to say that they do not follow. But what they follow is different from what most people follow. They...
Parshat Lech Lecha: Having the Strength to Move Forward Alone
Within the first words that God addresses to the bearer of a new covenant, there are already hints as to the nature of the heroism...
