Posts Tagged ‘ god ’

@DailyHillulah

July 31, 2012
By
meron_hp

How many righteous people can you name? A hundred? Fifty? When Abraham played that game with God, they couldn’t even find ten. (Admittedly, the two were looking in Sodom and Gemorrah, the two evilest cities on Earth, but still.) The new Twitter stream, @DailyHillulah, marks the yahrzeit—anniversary of a death–of a different rabbi or tzaddik who died…

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The Secret Jewish Burial Society

June 20, 2012
By
secret

The hevra kadisha, or “holy fraternity,” is a group that ritually cleans a dead body before it’s buried.…

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The Last Battle

January 25, 2012
By
Lev-Beh-Ziz

The End of Days occupies a much more central place in Christian theology than in Jewish thought. Judaism, for…

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Praying in the Fields

December 29, 2011
By
praying

In the sixteenth century, kabbalists living in Safed developed an elaborate ritual…

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The Physics of God

August 22, 2011
By
Feynman

“While you’re talking, you’re not learning anything,” Richard…

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Amen

August 4, 2011
By
amen

The word amen is Hebrew, dating back to the Book of Numbers–but…

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This Ain’t Your Grandpa’s Shema

July 15, 2011
By
cover-eyes

The prayer known as the Shema, the six-word proclamation…

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God Is Great (and I’m Not)

June 22, 2011
By
god

Sometimes, a spiritual search can be as hard…

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