[First posted in 2012 with this introduction: According to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, yes, God has “two” names but clarifies what he means. As it turns out, God has ONE NAME, which Rabbi Sacks, abiding by Jewish tradition, does not name but rather substitutes “Hashem” or “the Name”; the other “name” is actually a […]
Read more[A 5th Sabbath in a month is like a bonus, and so we take this occasion to borrow from the faith expressions in the prayer tradition of Israel. This liturgy is patterned after My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: Seder K’riat Hatorah (The Torah Service), Vol. 4 —edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman —Admin1] ————————— […]
Read more[This is a 3rd revisit to a post resurrected from 2012 because of the topic which keeps recurring in today’s discussions of why this world is the way it is; where is God in the horrendous occurrences millinialists experience today? Do we view human tragedy as coming from the hand of God? Or does the […]
Read more[This is from Interview at Notre Dame in the Appendices of MORAL GRANDEUR AND SPIRITUAL AUDACITY, essays edited by AJH’s daughter Susanah Heschel. We have featured bits and pieces of this’ MUST READ/MUST OWN book, downloadable as ebook on any kindle app. “I” stands for the Interviewer, not named but obviously a Catholic from Notre Dame. Reformatting […]
Read moreThere is no knowledge more important than the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 1:7) Consider these scriptural passages: The beginning of wisdom is reverence for God. “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches But let him who […]
Read more[This was first posted June 11, 2012, revisited Dec. 8, 2014, and deserves to be reviewed on this 2015 observance of “My feast” of Shavuot, in commemoration of YHWH’s giving of the Torah to the “mixed multitude.” This is one of 40 essays written by Abraham Joshua Heschel circa 1953, in a collection edited […]
Read more[First posted July 5, 2013, this is being reposted on the occasion of the celebration of the Giving of the Torah, commanded to be celebrated as one of the seven “My feasts” in Leviticus 23. Sinaites have determined that just like Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and the weekly Sabbath, this feast is not for Jews […]
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