Read Rabbi Cardozo’s eulogy for his wife Rabbanit Freyda Rachel Lopes Cardozo z”l
To think Jewishly is to stand at the edge of certainty and still choose to believe, question, and seek. Jewish thought lives in the tension between faith and doubt, law and freedom, eternity and change.
A Brief Insight while on the Road in Europe
In Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Moses and Parashat Ki Tisa by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
While scientific data is absorbed only in the brain, faith permeates all parts of the human personality. Nothing is untouched, all spiritual limbs quiver, and everything is transformed.
Parashat Noah
In Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Maimonides, Theodicy and Parashat Noach by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Must we believe that the whole universe was created only to test man’s moral and religious conduct? Is it not be more logical to conclude that God’s reasons for creating the universe are much greater and more significant than the problem of human behavior?
The full text of Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo’s Afterword to Returning
In Holocaust and Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Epub / eBook In this insightful essay, Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo speaks of the implications of resurgent memory in our day. Could this be the fulfillment of prophetic vision? He notes that stories of non-lived memory are more common than we think. “Such stories hint at a great secret about the age we are living in […]
A story of memory and redemption
In Holocaust and Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Yael Shahar
Publisher : Kasva Press LLCPublication date : September 4, 2018Language : EnglishPrint length : 504 pagesISBN-13 : 978-1948403009 How far will one man go to attain forgiveness? Alex died in Auschwitz, having betrayed his faith and his people. Now he’s been given a single miraculous […]
In Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Maimonides, Parashat Vayikra and Tisha B’Av by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Temple whose destruction we mourn on the 9th of Av has no inherent value. It is only a means to something that no physical object can contain. On Tish’a B’Av, we do not mourn the loss of the Temple but rather the loss of its message, which we no longer seem to grasp.
In Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Louis Jacobs is not at all as radical as some would like to believe. In fact, some ultra-Orthodox thinkers were even more radical than Rabbi Jacobs but remained completely committed to Orthodox Halacha and the belief in Torah from Heaven.
An Open Letter to Israel's Chief Rabbis
In Converting to Judaism and Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The first convert and Jew, Avraham, was only asked to observe a few of the commandments. In the same way, we should allow potential converts this option to slowly work their way up to Sinai.
In Jewish Thought and Philosophy and Parashat Va'era by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
I am jealous of atheists because they are able to believe the unbelievable. And I, in my simplicity, cannot reach that state of belief.
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai or A.B. Yehoshua?
In Israel, Jewish Thought and Philosophy and Yom HaShoah by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rabbi Yochanan taught us that Jews can survive without Israel, as long as there is Torah, the portable homeland of the Jewish people. But Jews will not survive solely because of the existence of Israel—however powerful it may be—if Israel does not incorporate a large percentage of Jewish traditional resources.
In Halacha and Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
היכולת המופלאה של העם היהודי לגבור על כל אויביו – מהמצרים ועד היוונים, הרומאים והפרסים... ועד לנאצים – בהחלט עשויה להיות תוצאה של אותה התערבות גופנית קטנה. המעשה אורך כמה שניות, אבל הוא יוצר נצח.
In Franz Rosenzweig, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Liturgy & Ritual and Parashat Terumah by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
To attend synagogue is an art. People must come with a sincere urge to discover their Jewishness, to reconnect with their inner being and with the Jewish people. To enter the synagogue is to hope for a metamorphosis in one’s soul and a transformation of one’s personality.
Some thoughts inspired by the writings of Avraham Joshua Heschel
In Heschel and Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
There is little doubt that secular Jews, consciously or unconsciously, keep a large number of commandments. Many of them may not be in the form of rituals, but there is massive evidence pointing to secular Jews’ commitment to keeping interpersonal mitzvot. Beneath the divisiveness of traditional commitment lie underpinnings of religion such as compassion, humility, awe, and even faith.