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Divrei Torah and Teachings
The previous generations mastered the keys to unlock all the gates of the worlds above. But the time has come to smash the locks!
"An Earth Covenant Perspective on Human Rights" taught at the first Rabbis for Human Rights Conference in NYC.
The Izhbitzer rebbe on Vashti the queen.
Imagine a Jewish practice which has the purpose of restoring all the species and creatures, and all the sparks they contain, to the fullness of blessing.
The dreidel v. the grogger.
Rebbe Nachman's explanation for why we spin the Dreidel. Those letters on the Dreidel mean something completely different than you thought. Mind-blowing...
Some reflections on the meaning of Chanukah.
Maimonides' Guide is the foundation for any Jewish ecotheology.
from The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
Redemption means achieving equality between the feminine and masculine divine principles, so teaches the Or Hame'ir.
We have no deeds in us, neither good nor bad: A vort on Avinu Malkeinu.
On Shavuot, when we celebrate receiving the Torah, we also celebrate the offering of the first fruits in the Temple, the bikurim. The offering was a supremely humble gesture. Yet without the small, perhaps wrinkled fruit of the bikurim, there could be no offering...
The Besh"t on the Pesach sacrifice and raising the holy sparks.
There's one important symbol that we don't explain or mention even once in the Passover seder: the charoset. Why?
The Beit Midrash Ruach v'Lev session on "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Haggadah"
From the first published seder, based on the Kabbalah of the four worlds. The seder calls on us to bring blessing to all creation.
Three teachings about how holy eating brings blessing to all life and all creatures, submitted by Jacob Fine.
In this world, what is further below branches off from a higher place...
Study and prayer are done with the lips and breath, not the eyes...
Dominion in the Bible is not the anti-environmental concept that both environmentalists and anthropocentrists would imagine...
Maidi Katz's Torah: on women's obligation to daven.
This story about Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro of Neshkiz comes from Magid Yitzhak Buxbaum.
Embrace is hinted at in the sukkah, just as a person embraces her child in love, encircling her with her arms, and sheltering her with her head...
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