Posts Tagged: Jeremy Rosen rabbi
How the Torah Teaches Us to Deal With — and Overcome — Physical Illness
The human body is an amazing organism. And a vehicle for spirituality. But we do tend to take it for granted until something bad happens,...
Why Having a Homeland Matters
In this week's Torah portion, we read: “God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and told him to tell the Children of Israel that when...
The Quest to Understand God Is the True Journey of Religion
“I am Ad’nai, your God, who took you out of Egypt” (Exodus 20:2). One of the most difficult subjects to write about is God. There are...
Choose a Society and Friends That Support Your Values
In this week's parsha, as the children of Israel approach the Promised Land, they had to pass through what is now Transjordan. In those days,...
Are You Sick? This Is How the Torah Wanted Us to Take Care of Our Souls
The chapters of the Torah that we are reading now are concerned with health, and what happens when our bodies do not function effectively or...
Why People Cannot Live on Bread Alone
It is a strange sentence: “I provided you with the Mana so that you should know that a person does not live on bread alone.”...
The Cost of Alienation and Assimilation on Judaism
It is one of the most problematic stories in the Torah. A young man, who was the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man,...
Shabbat Acharei Mot: The Danger of Extremism
Previously in Leviticus Chapter 9, the two sons of Aaron -- Nadav, and Avihu had watched and participated in the dedication of the priests and...
Rosh Hashanah and the Shmitah
Our New Year starts on the evening of September 6 (year 5782 in the Jewish calendar), and ushers in the new Sabbatical year. In Hebrew...
Should We Call Jews the ‘Chosen People’?
I dislike the expression “The Chosen People." It is not that I have any problem with the idea that different peoples may have different missions...
Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
April 24th is the date of the annual memorial that Armenians observe to recall the horrific massacres carried out by the Turkish government in 1915....
Mr. Cohen of Ballachulish Ferry
Last week, I gave a Zoom talk for the Scottish Jewish Archive center. I spoke about my experiences as the rabbi of the largest Jewish...
Eating the Golden Calf
Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices in the Temple was the centerpiece of Jewish communal life....
My Problem with Religion
Marx was right. Religion is the opiate of the masses. And Freud was right too that religion is wish-fulfillment and satisfies the need for a...
