Why does the religious right defend the genocide of Noah's flood?

 I was listening to conservative talk radio. The host is technically  of conservative Judaism, though his beliefs are very much in line with Orthodox Judaism. But, he defends the so called Noah's flood as strongly as any fundamentalist Christian. First of all, this...

THE AKIDAH - The Sacrifice a very different take…

By Yoram Getzler. Co-Host at IsraelSeen.Com The Akidah, is the section of the Hebrew scripture, the Torah in which our father Abraham is “told by God” to take his son; son of his old age (Abraham is 100...

Semantic insights 4 into the Torah – Bible Reading – Parashat vaY

Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man.  The name of the Parashah, VaYeRA has to do with sight and vision, and there are ten instances in this Parashah with matters of extraordinary visions, or of lack of sight leading to...

Because We Need to Love – Parshat Eikev

By Ariel Ben Avraham In previous commentaries we have insisted that there is not such a thing as the apparent conditionality of God’s Love, because all conditions exist on our behalf. We also have repeated that Love is its cause and effect, its instant reward, and in...

Parshat Eikev The Blessings of Love – Reflecting on Pain and Wea

 By Ariel-Ben-Avraham of Safed, IsraelReflecting on pain and weakness Immediately after posting my commentary on last week’s parshah (July 15), I underwent a quadruple by-pass operation at Rambam hospital in...

Va etchanan – The Oneness of Israel and Divine Love

Today Ariel is having quadruple by-pass surgery and we pray for a quick recovery. Commentary by Ariel Ben Avraham of Safed, Israel. “I beseeched G-d at that time” (Deuteronomy 3:23). Moses fulfilled his...

The Struggle of Qayin Cain and Hevel Abel and the Original Sin.

Ratnermuseum.com This is a regular feature on IsraelSeen by Dr. Yitzkak Hayut-Man. An innovator, futurist, visionary and Bible scholar. I have the utmost respect for the man I consider a friend. He is...

The Blessing Power of Love – Balak – Ariel Ben Avraham

Balaam, The Magician by Artist Phillip Ratner Commentary by Ariel Ben Avraham of Safed, Israel. I know Ariel through silence. 7 days we sat, listened and commented during a Jewish Silent Meditation retreat at...

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Ratnermuseum.com This is a regular feature on IsraelSeen by Dr. Yitzkak Hayut-Man. An innovator, futurist, visionary and Bible scholar. I have the utmost respect for the man I consider a friend. He is...

Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch The Creation of Animals and Man II

This was the final email from Eli regarding his insights on the Torah/Bible. I have enjoyed his 25 years of friendship, partnership and collaboration with israelseen. We will all  miss him dearly. Steve Ornstein But that’s the meaning of the term Adam (Man) from a...

Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch The Creation of Animals and Man Part I

For more from Eli Lasch go to israelseen By Dr. Eli Lasch The fifth and the first half of the sixth day follow exactly the accepted scheme of evolution. Having disengaged itself from rootedness life started moving: The first to be created were “the animals of the sea”,...

Dr. Schroder: Genesis and the Big Bang Part 1

Author of Genesis and the Big Bang; in which he shares his discovery of harmony between modern science and the Bible. Dr. Gerald Schroeder Phd earned his doctorate in earth physics from the Massachusetts Institute...

Cyber Or-12 Light- God, Torah, Israel

By Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror We are dealing with one of the classical patterns- that -connect of Judaism. The tradition of “Kudsha Brich Hu, Orayta, VeYisrael-Had Hu” ((Zohar; Vayikrah, 73) - God, Torah, and Israel are One. These connect the fundamental unity of the Judaic...

Dr. Prof. Eli Lasch: The Fifth and the Sixth Days

" To the next step. In the last chapter we have claimed that the creation of the luminaries symbolize the beginning of a new cycle – a cycle introducing consciousness and leading to self-consciousness, to human beings. How is that happening? It is fascinating to ...

CyberOr Sand and Light

" And the journey continues. Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror continues to unpack the secrets in the Biblical texts. The correlation of Abraham’s journey with our cyber journey goes much further and deeper. In the narrative...

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