Author: Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D.
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www.facebook.com/785229534965122/posts/1678631642291569/ Honored and thrilled to be part of this brand new collection which so many will find useful. I contributed an essay on David Hartman z”l; on his important essay “Auschwitz or Sinai?”
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To View: https://www.facebook.com/RabbiSabath/videos/609872439615881/ Parashat Tzav/Shabbat HaGadol: Study Sources Study Sources: Parashat Tzav/Shabbat HaGadol 4/4/20
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In Unity there is Hope. From Mordecai Kaplan August 18, 1942 The main effect of the present crisis is to shift the goal of all our efforts from the individual to the collective, from the “I” to the “we.” We hardly need to be reminded that no man is alone now, that our safety lies…
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By Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D. Even if one could get away with something unethical, with deceiving another person, it is incorrect, improper, barbaric and desecrates God’s name. There are few commandments in our Jewish tradition which have total acceptance as to their moral necessity, yet have generated a myriad of conflicting interpretations and applications.…
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By RACHEL SABATH BEIT-HALACHMI We are the ever-worrying people. Philosopher and ideologue Simon Rawidowicz (1896-1957) is regularly quoted in his description of the Jews as “the ever-dying people.” Or so we have often perceived ourselves. From the moment the first biblical spies went to scout out the Land of Israel and felt “as grasshoppers” in…
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Published in Sh’ma, a Journal of Jewish Sensibilities, June 2019 Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi Eugene B. Borowitz, who died in 2016 at nearly 92, was a theologian and Jewish thinker who had enormous influence on liberal ideas about God, authority, and autonomy. He taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for over half a century…
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https://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Rethinking-Judaism-Reconciling-with-the-past-for-the-sake-of-the-future-385758
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https://www.academia.edu/35591653/The_God_Who_Loves_Pluralism
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