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Adin Steinsaltz
Adin Steinsaltz
Adin Steinsaltz
October 16, 2016, 11:01 am
Adin Steinsaltz
Seven shepherds and eight princes of men
Connecting the ushpizin, the historic Jewish leaders who strangely visit sukkahs worldwide each night, to the holiday itself
Adin Steinsaltz
September 27, 2016, 3:45 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Rosh HaShanah: The head of the year
Why use a body part to denote a fresh start? A study in how people improve themselves
Adin Steinsaltz
August 12, 2016, 3:19 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Remembering Jerusalem
The holy city’s destruction was the ruin of all existence, casting a curtain of sadness over reality ever since
Adin Steinsaltz
June 10, 2016, 3:50 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
The process of receiving the Torah
Shavuot recalls the Jews’ ‘out of space, out of time’ Sinai encounter, and charges them to bring that holiness to life
Adin Steinsaltz
April 10, 2016, 3:20 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
In every generation
The Haggadah’s text, though fixed, beckons to each seder’s participants to perfect it with new interpretations
Adin Steinsaltz
March 17, 2016, 3:18 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Purim, the festival of laughter
Reason can’t defeat the absurdity of anti-Semitism: what’s left is either despair or finding the humor in it all
Adin Steinsaltz
September 3, 2015, 2:40 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Prepare for the New Year
The custom of public contemplation before the High Holidays gives Jews a chance to ask each other: Where are we going?
Adin Steinsaltz
May 18, 2015, 9:57 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Curious Jews
The uniquely human drive to study for its own sake is the trait that raises humans above the angels
Adin Steinsaltz
March 23, 2015, 12:55 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Freedom means more than being unchained
Those who are set free but have no real aspirations are destined to become slaves to other masters
Adin Steinsaltz
February 3, 2015, 11:54 am
Adin Steinsaltz
Tu Bishvat: Connecting with the living world
Trees provide sustenance and inspiration — and cutting one down may have once launched a Jewish-Roman war
Adin Steinsaltz
December 15, 2014, 11:29 am
Adin Steinsaltz
Hanukkah — lighting a new kind of candle
The Hasmonean wars marked the first time in history that people were willing to die for their beliefs
Adin Steinsaltz
July 3, 2014, 7:32 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
A healing pain
God will find the right way to make our enemies pay for what they did — our task is to ‘do’ Kaddish
Adin Steinsaltz
June 16, 2014, 10:32 am
Adin Steinsaltz
Add more holiness
The founder of the yeshiva where two of the kidnapped teens studied calls on Jews to pray for their safe return
Adin Steinsaltz
December 28, 2013, 5:56 pm
Adin Steinsaltz
Who will be our rabbis?
Where are the rabbis in Israel who care about the prostitutes at Tel Baruch beach?
Adin Steinsaltz
September 15, 2013, 8:50 am
Adin Steinsaltz
The season of our rejoicing
The Sukkot holiday experience of return to the primordial condition of deficiency and exile is a recipe for joy
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