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Just as millions of Israeli Jews prayed for the safety of our three sons and showed unprecedented unity and moral character as no nation has ever shown, let us now sit shivah and mourn the terrible atrocity that has been committed by a few of our sons.
It is time to stop justifying God. Morally, His ways are sometimes inexcusable. Allowing a Holocaust in which six million Jews were killed in the cruelest ways imaginable, causing unbearable pain to innocent children, is morally intolerable.
The public is invited to attend the Jerusalem Lecture Series on Jewish Philosophy 5774/2013-4 PROFESSOR HOWARD WETTSTEIN Will be speaking on: Can a Chozer B’Teshuva also be a Chozer B’She’ela? Can Doubt Have a Role in Religious Life?
In Miscellaneous and The Jewish Year
One of the most challenging aspects of religious life is how to relate to the concept of revelation. The uncompromising claim by Judaism that the Torah is not a book written by man, but is the result of the most famous disclosure of God’s will to man,
The Cardozo Academy is pleased to have aided and to now announce the publication of former Educational Director, Rabbi Francis Nataf’s third volume in his Redeeming Relevance series, Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Numbers, which can currently be ordered from the publisher. We are also pleased to pass on Rabbi Nataf’s invitation to subscribe […]
The need to engage in sports is self-understood. Exercising and keeping our bodies in good condition is considered a mitzva of the highest priority.
In a world that is filled with much animosity, the concept of universal love has become a famous and much discussed topic. We are taught that only when all people begin loving each other equally will our multitude of problems be solved and universal peace prevail.
In the first two parts of this essay, we have seen that no objectivity is possible in Halacha. This enables us to understand not only why there are many opposing opinions in the Talmud, such as those of Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai, but also that the weltanschauung (world view) and ideologies of the halachic authorities play an enormous role in the way they decide halachic issues.
The public is invited to attend the Jerusalem Lecture Series on Jewish Philosophy 5774/2013-4 RABBI HERZL HEFTER will be speaking on SAVING GOD FROM TRUE BELIEVERS
Dear Friends, Shalom u-vracha. For those of you who were unable to attend my lecture last December at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Jerusalem, when I spoke on the subject of RESCUING JUDAISM- Dangerous and Unacceptable Rabbinical Decisions, Immoral Religious Acts, the Need for Ethical Halacha and the Controversial Limmud Conference. Here is a link […]
Much has been written about the meaning and purpose of Halacha, based on philosophy, metaphysics and psychology. Scholars have suggested that Halacha is the art of living in the presence of God.