Author page: Rabbi Moshe Pitchon

Rabbi Moshe Pitchon

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¿Estos Somos Nosotros?

Los sectarios no desean otra cosa que expulsar a las mayorías y ocupar su lugar. Su deseo es el de imponer formas de vida que no sólo no reflejan las realidades del mundo actual, sino que están apartadas del modo de vida de la mayoría de los judíos en Israel y a través del mundo

Israel Politics

A Guide for the Confused

Israel did not enter Gaza with the intention of killing Palestinians, just as the Palestinians entered Israel with the intention of killing as many Israelis as possible (without regard for other nationals). Israel’s intention is to free those who were kidnapped and to retribute the direct perpetrators for their atrocities.

Passover

A Gut Yomtef

Pessah 2024 The incommensurable suffering

Exodus

The Ten Plagues

The miracles reported in the Bible were supposed to strike the reader as miraculous. Even if some natural phenomena can be found at the heart of the Ten Plagues, the theology rather than the natural history of the plagues intrigued the biblical authors and inspired them to tell the tale of the plagues as they did.

Exodus

The unpredictable, inexplicable help that we encounter

all through Jewish history, from the Exodus to the Maccabean Revolt to the rising from the ashes of the Nazi Holocaust to the creation of the modern State of Israel, the end result was not the to-be-expected consequences. It was something that surprised even the most optimistic speculations about human capacity.

Exodus

Let’s Talk About Miracles

To paraphrase Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Jews do not keep their faith because of the miracles they experience. It is their faith that leads them to interpret their life as miraculous.

Exodus

An Incident in a Small Middle Eastern Tribe

What really happened that night, on that day hundreds and hundreds of years ago, when the Book of Exodus tells us that

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt… And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said: ‘Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.’

Israel Politics

Is Demography Destiny?

Though Israel is still a secular country where secular Jews account for 36 percent of the population
it is estimated that by 2059, the Haredi community will constitute 35% of the Jewish population in Israel.”

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