The Strength of Israel
When you are strong in yourself, as yourself, you are Israel. This requires great…
When you are strong in yourself, as yourself, you are Israel. This requires great…
I believe the challenge issued by the angel still echoes today. Are we Jacob, embarrassed by who we are? Or are we Israel, with the courage to stand upright and walk tall in the path of…
If you find yourself struggling with faith, you are in the company of Jacob-who-became-Israel, the father-in-faith of us…
Judaism is not faith as illusion, seeing the world through rose-tinted lenses as we would wish it to be. It is faith as relentless honesty, seeing evil as evil and fighting it in the name of life, and good, and…
Judaism is not an escape from the world, but an engagement with the world. It does not anaesthetise us to the pains and apparent injustices of life. It does not reconcile us to suffering. It asks us to play our part in the most daunting undertaking ever asked by God of mankind: to construct relationships, communities, and ultimately a society,…