Posts Tagged: Nitzavim
Parshat Nitzavim: How to Renew a Nation
The Talmud gives an ingenious reading to the line, “Moses commanded us a Torah, as a heritage of the congregation of Israel.” Noting that there...
Why Do Jews Drift Away From Judaism?
When I was a student at university in the late 1960s -- the era of student protests, psychedelic drugs, and the Beatles meditating with the...
Parshat Nitzavim: The World Is Waiting for You to Act
Something remarkable happens in this week’s parsha, almost without our noticing it, which changed the very terms of Jewish existence and has life-changing implications for...
Who Is a Jew? And Who Gets to Decide?
Since Israel's founding in 1948, one of its most contentious problems has been trying to define "Who is a Jew?" The premise behind Israel’s creation was to...
Why Do We Choose Judaism? Because We Choose Life
This week’s parsha raises a question that goes to the heart of Judaism, but which was not asked for many centuries until raised by a...
