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 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…
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…
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"…
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…
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)…
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
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…
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…
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with passover and jewish identity (and the wicked son of the Hagadah) https://youtu.be/MTGKb5R0Wb8