Tag: finding god

Faith in the Future (Shemot 5780)

13th January 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by … Read more

23rd October 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! In The Lonely Man of Faith, Rabbi Soloveitchik drew our attention to the … Read more

7th October 2019

In the glorious song with which Moses addresses the congregation, he invites the people to think of the Torah – … Read more

29th September 2019

At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s behest 612 commands, Moses gave them the final … Read more

23rd September 2019

When I was a student at university in the late 1960s – the era of student protests, psychedelic drugs, and … Read more

12th November 2018

This week’s parsha relates a powerful, primal vision of prayer: Jacob, alone and far from home, lies down for the … Read more

12th March 2018

It was never my ambition or aspiration to be a rabbi. I went to university to study economics. I then … Read more

20th November 2017

What did Jacob add to the Jewish experience? What is it that we find in him that we do not … Read more

8th February 2016

It was the first Israelite house of worship, the first home Jews made for God. But the very idea is … Read more

16th November 2015

Why Jacob? That is the question we find ourselves asking repeatedly as we read the narratives of Genesis. Jacob is … Read more