Posts Tagged: Midrash
Acts of Kindness
There are so many wonderful stories about random acts of kindness. Someone who helps you with your bags at an airport. The unknown person who...
The Architecture of Holiness
From this week's Torah portion to the end of the Book of Exodus, the holy book describes, in painstaking detail and great length, the construction of the...
The UN Is an Enemy in Sheep’s Clothing
Last Friday, the UN Commission on the Status of Women voted on a resolution blaming “Israeli occupation” for the lack of advancement of Palestinian women...
In Judaism, Love is Not Enough
Judaism is supremely a religion of love: three loves. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and...
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...
The Weight of Leadership
With the recent inauguration of an American president, another Israeli election, and heated issues about gun control against the background of another...
Higgs Boson and God
In 1964 the physicist Peter Higgs suggested that there had to be a crucial particle (a boson) that helped explain how matter could emerge...
Leaders Acting as Servants
Korach had a point. "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with...
