the jewish holy days – yom kippur (abraham and job)
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with yom kippur and the questioning of God's judgment (comparing abraham and job) https://youtu.be/8mBhpMc8U8E
the jewish holy days – rosh hashanah and historical development
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with rosh hashanah and historical development of the jewish tradition contradicting orthodox dogma https://youtu.be/rBeAICLteCo
Rabbi Soloveitchik and the Lonely Man of Faith
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who lived in the 20th century, was a leader of modern orthodoxy, a Halachic (legal) scholar and a very profound thinker who pursued secular as well as…
The essence of Judaism and religion – orthodox (faith) or orthoprax (good deeds)
There is an ancient debate in the Talmudic tradition concerning the question as to the essence of Judaism and religion - faith or good deeds. Rashi (the great commentator of…
The verse “I am the Lord your God”
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in his blog on the Torah reading of the week (Va’etchanan 5777), presents two arguments in the Jewish tradition regarding the opening verse of the "10 statements"…
Heresy and moral atheism
Maimonides (the great legal scholar and philosopher of the 12th century) is the first and only thinker in the Jewish tradition to codify a set of principles of faith within…
The source of authority and sanctity of the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses) and Rava’s anti-theological conception
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel points out (God in Search of Man, P. 257-278), that there is a fundamental difference between the concepts of the Torah (the 5 books of Moses)…
the jewish holy days – shavuot and the ten statements
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with shavuot and the biblical account of the ten statements in Exodus 20 https://youtu.be/S7g_59uzSI4
The interpretation of texts contradicting orthodox dogma
In traditional rabbinic Judaism we as Jews live not by what is written in the Bible (the Written Torah) but by the Bible as interpreted and understood by the Jewish…
the jewish holy days – passover and shavuot (from barley to wheat)
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with the relationship between passover and shavuot that are connected according to the jewish calendar https://youtu.be/BJRtjfIan84…