TORAH PORTION; What Does It Mean to Listen With Your Heart?Sultar, Jeff
We determine how a gift is to be used. A gift can be placed on a shelf. It can be an object to be admired and appreciated. But without interaction, it often does little more than collect dust. Our willingness to engage it will determine how much it will mean to us. But we must d...
What about kids in non-Western countries that are difficult to access? Finally, why wasn’t the audience insulted on behalf of their own kids? The reader at this point has certainly lost patience with me. “He didn’t mean it literally!” someone will tell me, “it is just a way of...
Hence, we understand something else—we do not adhere to the Torah at all, we do not fulfill it, we do not understand its inner meaning—it is not in us. Question:What does it mean “love your neighbor as yourself” if it is only about me? Answer:That you have to bring yourself t...
commands are easy, and the one who sets himself against God’s commands is thwarting God’s plans for all of mankind. What does this mean,“they thwart His plans for mankind as a whole?”The meaning is God would that all men would have faith and be saved. (1 Timothy 2:4...
Parashat Naso, the longest of all the Torah portions, features a famous blessing – but what does it mean for us to bless one another? Is it a power reserved for clergy, or is it something any of us can do? In this episode, which first aired in May 2017, Rabbi Rick Jacobs talks ...
According to the midrash, rabbi Judah said that it was only in his generation that he (Noah) was considered a righteous man. Noah was a righteous man by compromise. What does it mean“by compromise?”He says that if he had lived in the time of Moshe, he would not have been ca...
Question:When the whole letter is written, what does it mean? Answer:I depict to what extent negative qualities can become similar to the positive qualities. Question:Do you mean that this black letter can become similar to the white sheet of paper, to the white light?
Until very recently that really didn’t make a lot of sense, nor did it catch very many people’s attention. “Fullness of the gentile nations” is a somewhat strange phrase to our ears. What does that mean? Let’s examine those words beginning first with my insertion of the word “...
What Does ‘Torah’ Mean? Not just the Five Books of Moses, torah can refer to a single teaching — or all of Jewish tradition. Torah Commentaries Parashat Bereshit: Being Like God The banishing of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden marks the beginning of humanity’s path to fulfilling...